Liza Cleland

This study offers not only an integrated edition of the clothing sections of the Brauron Clothing Catalogues (IG II2 1514 -1530), but a glossary and translation intended to facilitate wider access at various levels of scholarship and to encourage interdisciplinary familiarity with the material and its contents. The presentation of the Greek text facilitates viewing the fragments from a perspective closer to their original function as a catalogue, thus allowing their use as an overall statistical entity, particularly in studying the taxonomy of Greek clothing. The author also offers descriptions of garments listed in the fragments, analysis based on their external context as records of dedication (with the social significance this implies) and on their internal relationships (as instances of 'variants' which contribute to a semiosis of description) and a tabulation of individual descriptions which allows comparison and focus on particular areas of interest.

Text, Analysis, Glossary and Translation

The Brauron Clothing Catalogues

Mary Harlow

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

The papers in this volume provide fascinating snapshots of the clothed body in the ancient world. These snapshots reveal common themes in scholarship and allow a comparison of methodologies across disciplines and periods.

The Clothed Body in the Ancient World

Glenys Davies

Karen Stears

As historicalscholarship increasingly attends not just to text, but to context, theconsideration of colour - as an aspect of the material, artistic, literary,linguistic and conceptual cultures of antiquity - provides a valuable path ofapproach to our evidence. This evidence demands, and responds to, manydifferent methodological approaches. The papers represented in this volume ofproceedings, based on an international conference held at Edinburgh Universityin 2001, thus reveal a multiplicity of different ways of seeing, studying anddefining colour in antiquity. They bring together researchers working ondifferent cultures and periods, but also different areas of colour research:the technological and archaeological study of painting and dyeing; the manifestationsand meanings of colour in visual art; and the inter-related fields of thesemiosis and symbolism of colour in literature, and the colour terms andcategorisation of ancient languages.

Colour in the Ancient Mediterranean World

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Liza Cleland

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