This volume primarily consists of a collection of papers presented at the conference 'Textiles and War in Europe and the Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity', held in Bucharest in May 2023. Its main goal is to explore the opportunity to establish a new and well-defined direction of academic investigation: the autonomously conceived research of the textile items used or manipulated by prehistoric and ancient armed groups.
The book revolves around two central issues. The first is outlining the main sources and methodologies with the potential to provide noteworthy results, starting by sketching a map of the current state of the research in the field. The second is topical and deals with highlighting a few relevant themes that could be tackled, such as particular studies on specific textile items used in the military field, the systems of production and acquisition of garments and other textile materials for the armies, the expression of military rank and status through textile items, the economic and cultural effects of military campaigns in the field of textiles acquisition and consumption.
The 13 papers operate with a wide array of archaeological, iconographic and written sources to examine various aspects of the use of textiles and leather by armed individuals and armies in diverse regions of the prehistoric and ancient world, from western Iberia to northern Mesopotamia and from the bogs of northwestern Europe and the rugged mountains of the Balkan peninsula to the Arabian desert, preserving however as focal points Greece, Rome and the Italian peninsula.
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Liviu Mihail Iancu is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Cultural and Civilisation in Bucharest, holding a PhD from the University of Bucharest on archaic Greek mercenaries. His studies focus on ancient Mediterranean warfare and the Greek colonisation in the Pontic region. His work on ancient textiles deals with the specialised economic systems for clothing the troops and the items captured as booty or received as tribute.
Francesco Meo is Assistant Professor of Italic Archaeology at the University of Salento, teaching Greek and Italic archaeology and art history since 2015. His research explores production activities in southern Italy during the first millennium BC and the influence of the Greeks of Magna Graecia over the neighbouring Italic tribes. His work on ancient textiles in southern Italy focuses on the reconstruction of the production system, including gender aspects, and the analysis of fabrics.
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Senior ResearcherThe Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Cultural and Civilisation in Bucharest
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Cultural Heritage, University of Salento
Introduction
Textiles for War: Archaeological Evidence and Approaches - Margarita Gleba
Craft, Design and Ergonomics. Decorations, Reinforcements and Protections for Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Panoplies Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea - Raimon Graells i Fabregat
Protecting the Legionary's Head: Analysis of the Evidence of Lining in Roman Helmets from the Imperial Age - Fabio Spagiari and Elisabetta Malaman
Textiles on the March: Textile Activities in Roman Republican Military Contexts of Western Iberia (1st Century BC) - Francisco B. Gomes, Teresa Rita Pereira, Carlos Pereira and Joao Pimenta
Reused and Recycled Textiles from Judean Desert Sites Associated with the Jewish Rebels Who Fought the Romans During the 1st and 2nd Centuries AD, Compared to Finds from Contemporary Nabatean Sites in Southern Israel - Orit Shamir
'Quod Satis in Usum Fuit Sublato'. Booty and Tribute as Textile Supply Sources for Ancient Greek and Roman Armies - Liviu Mihail Iancu
Samnite Armour and Linen - Gianluca Tagliamonte
Typical Dress in Daunia (Puglia Region, Southern Italy) and Its Representation in Stone Carvings - Francesco Meo
Blood-Splattered Tunics: Textile Trophies in the Funerary Iconography of Campania and Lucania, Italy, in the 4th Century BC - Maureen Carroll
The Proto-Lucanian Hydria from the Tomb 2/1994 of Gravina-Botromagno and the Polysemy of Heroic Textiles: Symbola for the Peucetian Elites - Carlo Lualdi
From Milites to Augusti: the Adoption of Military Clothing in Depictions of Roman Emperors During the 3rd Century AD - Adrian Gordon Zan
Roman Soldiers or Others: Who Were the People Depicted on the Funerary Stelae from the Middle Strymon Valley? - Philip Kolev
Clothing on the Eastern Border of the Roman Empire: Parthian Military Costumes on Statues in the Museum of Sanliurfa (ancient Edessa in Osrhoene) in Southeastern Turkey - Erguen Lafli and Maurizio Buora
