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List of Contributors

Introduction

Part One: Fibres and Tools
1. Thematic Play and Apprenticeship: An Analysis of Miniature Textile Tools from Karanis (Heidi Hilliker, University of Michigan, USA)
2. Some Reflexions on Fibre Provenance and Processing in Old Dongola, Sudan (Magdalena M. Wozniak, University of Warsaw, Poland)
3. Reconstructing Middle Kingdom Textile Production: New Evidence from the Tomb of Djehutihotep (Veerle Van Kersen, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
4. Qasr Ibrim: An Overview of Its Tools and Textiles (Sarah Hitchens, University of Liverpool, UK)
5. Reconstructing the Thread: Evidence from Experimental Archaeology (Chiara Spinazzi-lucchesi, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Marie Wallenberg, Independent Scholar, Serbia)

Part Two: Archaeological Findings and Conservation
6. Digging within a Dig: Specimens from the Textile Collection of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Turin (Maet) (Matilde Borla and Elisa Fiore Marochetti, Ministry of Culture, Italy)
7. Common Threads? A Comparative Study of Middle-Nubian Textiles from Egypt and Sudan (C.2500 -1500 BC) (Alistair Dickey and Elsa Yvanez, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
8. Tutankhamun's Decayed Garment and the Challenges about the Conservation of Colorful Past (Nagm Eldeen Morshed Hamza and Islam Shaheen, Grand Egyptian Museum, Egypt)
9. Egyptian Textiles on Human Mummies of the Museo Egizio, Turin: Conservation Strategies and Preliminary Study (Valentina Turina, Giulia Pallottini, Egyptian Museum, Italy and Matilde Borla, Ministry of Culture, Italy)

Part Three: Textiles and Society
10. Laundry at Deir El-medina: Another Look at the Laundrylists and the Laundrymen from the Community of Workers (Kathrin Gabler, University of Mainz, Denmark)
11. The Gender of Labour in the New Kingdom Textile Industry (Reinert Skumsnes, University of Oslo, Norway)
12. “he Donated the Women of the Conquered Cities to the Weaving Houses of the Great Gods” the Spatial Distribution of the Female Textile Workers Across Egypt and the Ancient Near East at the Iii and II Millennium BC (Danijela Stefanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia)
13. The Development of the Traditional Royal Costume on the Example of the Depictions in the Chamber of Linen at Edfu (Dorotea Wollnerová, Charles University, Czech Republic)

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