Women's Work: The First 20, 000 Years - Women, Cloth and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth W Barber

Author:Elizabeth W Barber [Barber, Elizabeth W]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Women's Studies, Women, Textile Fabrics; Ancient, Women; Prehistoric, Textile Fabrics; Prehistoric
ISBN: 9780393313482
Google: v1pwdjw5zoUC
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 1995-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 7.6. Headdress of the queen of Ur, fashioned of gold and precious stones and worn over a huge wig. The Sumerian queen was buried with seventy-four servants, many of whom also wore elaborate headdresses. Mesopotamia, mid-third millennium B.C.

female, had been drugged and killed in the great "Death Pit" surrounding her tomb. Guards fell beside their weapons, cart attendants by their animals, musicians next to their great inlaid harps. Each lady-in-waiting departed this world wearing an ornate headdress of gold and silver, huge gold earrings, and necklaces of precious stones. The queen herself wore an even larger headdress over what must have been a huge bouffant wig ( fig. 7.6). The garments of all the ladies radiated splendor. Woolley says of them:

In the case of two or three bodies ... a stray fragment of cloth was preserved ... , a thick but closely woven fabric the dust of which still retained a bright ochrous red colour. Very many of

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