TY - JOUR
T1 - Unfolding a geometric textile from 9th-century gordion
AU - Holzman, Samuel
N1 - Funding Information:
1. I thank the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Penn Mu seum, the Gordion Archaeological Project, and the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute for facilitating the study of textiles and other artifacts from Gordion. My research was generously supported by the Louis J. Kolb Society of Fellows at the Penn Museum and by Charles K. Williams II. The following members of the Gordion Archaeological Project, Penn Museum, and Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute offered invaluable support and advice: Mary Ballard, Brendan Burke, Gareth Darbyshire, Lynn Grant, Jessica Johnson, Lynn Makowsky, Kathryn Morgan, Hüseyin Öztürk, Brian Rose, Kenneth Sams, Caroline Solazzo, Anne Tibali, and Petra Vaiglova. The study of the Gordion textiles would not have been possible without the help of conservators Nancy Love and Lynn Grant. This article benefited greatly from the constructive comments of the anonymous reviewers for Hesperia. All photographs are my own unless indicated.
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - A fire at Gordion ca. 800 b.c. preserved an ornate woven textile folded up in Megaron 3. A new visual reconstruction of this artifact from the Early Phrygian destruction level shows a complex composition combining slit-tapestry weaving and soumak wrapping. A unique find from Early Iron Age Anatolia, the textile shares geometric motifs and design elements with many other types of Phrygian artifacts, such as painted pottery, inlaid furniture, and a pebble mosaic, and shows weaving to have been part of the koine of geometric design of the era.
AB - A fire at Gordion ca. 800 b.c. preserved an ornate woven textile folded up in Megaron 3. A new visual reconstruction of this artifact from the Early Phrygian destruction level shows a complex composition combining slit-tapestry weaving and soumak wrapping. A unique find from Early Iron Age Anatolia, the textile shares geometric motifs and design elements with many other types of Phrygian artifacts, such as painted pottery, inlaid furniture, and a pebble mosaic, and shows weaving to have been part of the koine of geometric design of the era.
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U2 - 10.2972/hesperia.88.3.0527.pdf
DO - 10.2972/hesperia.88.3.0527.pdf
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85072639327
SN - 0018-098X
VL - 88
SP - 527
EP - 556
JO - Hesperia
JF - Hesperia
IS - 3
ER -