In textile layers : the wrapping of human remains, animals, and artefacts in Egypt, Sudan, and the Southern Levant /
This volume examines the role of textiles in ancient Egypt, Sudan and the Southern Levant in funerary contexts through an interdisciplinary lens. Contributions from archaeology, philology, conservation, bioanthropology and imaging sciences highlight how collaborative approaches reveal both the mater...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Spanish Italian |
| Language Notes: | Contributions in English, Spanish and Italian. |
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Oxford, UK :
BAR Publishing,
[2026].
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| Series: | Archaeology of Egypt and Sudan ;
v. 6. BAR international series ; 3269. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Salima Ikram
- In textile layers: reconsidering wrapped remains and artefacts in the Nile Valley / Elsa Yvanez, Matilde Borla, and Luise Ørsted Scharff Brandt
- Part 1: Textile wrappings in context: case studies from Egypt, Sudan, and the Levant
- The Gebelein mummy in the pleated dress: a case study / Elisa Fiore Marochetti, Cinzia Oliva and Rosa Boano
- Airing the dirty linen: preliminary remarks on Middle Kingdom textiles from Dayr al-Barshā / Veerle van Kersen and Georgia Long
- Bifocal approach to human and animal mummies from el-Deir cemeteries / Fleur Letellier-Willemin
- The reuse of clothing in burials from the necropolis of Fag el-Gamus, Egypt / Anne Kwaspen and Kristin South
- Wrapping the dead in Meroitic Sudan / Elsa Yvanez
- An early 4th millennium BCE funerary kit from the southern Levant / Janet Levy
- Part 2: Reframing textile wrappings: multidisciplinary approaches and textile research
- Starting from the back: preliminary studies and conservation treatments of Usai's mummy / Daniela Picchi and Cinzia Oliva
- From the Ptolemaic to the Roman period. Conservation of wrapped human remains: two case studies from the Museo Egizio in Turin / Paola Buscaglia, Roberta Genta, Anna Piccirillo, Matilde Borla, and Valentina Turina
- Recomposition of a set of late antique cloths: conservation treatments as tools for the comprehension of their formal and functional values / Chiara Tricerri, Michela Cardinali, Roberta Genta, Anna Piccirillo, Matilde Borla, Valentina Turina
- The story of the camisia from the Museo Egizio in Turin: conservation treatments as enhancements of an archaeological textile / Camilla Bruscagin, Roberta Genta, Anna Piccirillo, Matilde Borla
- Are Third Intermediate Period cartonnages only cheap substitutes for wooden coffins? Observations on the use of textiles around the mummy through time / Charlotte Hunkeler
- A few words about the role of textiles and cloth-wrapped statuettes in funerary texts of the New Kingdom / Katarzyna Kasprzycka.