On Oct 14, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Robin Netherton wrote:
Passing along a question from a friend that I can't answer myself:
Can anyone point me to which researchers would be the "name"
specialists studying and publishing about textiles from the Near
East and Aegean from the fourth and third centuries B.C.?
I know there are plenty of people in pre-medieval periods, but
because it's not my own area, I can't remember which scholars
specialize in which periods and places, and I'd rather not e-mail
all of them to find out.
This is to help a student working in a related material culture
area in the period of Alexander the Great.
I'm not sure that there are enough textiles surviving from that
period to support a focused expert. The only textile that comes to
mind from that narrow window are some fragments found in an elaborate
box in a tomb supposed to be that of Philip of Macedon. (The
identification may be more certain than I'm making it sound.) This
is discussed in Flury-Lemberg's _Textile Conservation and Reserach_
and mentioned in an article in _Athens Annals of Archaeology_
discussing the site in general (there's an offprint of this article
available as: Andronikos, M.. 1980. Royal Graves at Vergina.
Athens Annals of Archaeology, Athens.)
Somewhat earlier than that target period, but possible also relevant
are some textiles from the burial known as "the hero of Lefkandi",
which is mentioned in Barber's _Prehistoric Textiles_, as well as in
Popham, Mervyn, E. Touloupa & L.H. Sackett. 1982. "The hero of
Lefkandi" in Antiquity 56:169-174.
I'm almost hesitant to suggest Barber as a _specialist_ in this
topic, since she covers such a broad territory, but she probably
comes closest to fitting the description of anyone I'm familiar with.
Heather
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