Following the Thread: Elite Iconography on Weaving Objects at Poggio Civitate (Murlo)

Following the Thread: Elite Iconography on Weaving Objects at Poggio Civitate (Murlo)

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Evidence for industrial scale production of numerous manufacturing processes has been attested in all phases of occupation at Poggio Civitate (Murlo).A subset of these, tools for the production of textiles and fibers, indicates that textile crafts were manufactured on a large scale as a part of a centralized and organized industry.These industrialized practices occurred within and around the monumental seventh and sixth century BCE complexes which displayed architectural decoration bearing iphone 13 price dallas iconographic themes that served to secure the positions of the aristocratic elites.

This paper investigates the stamped decoration present on rocchetti and its relationship to the architectural decoration present on the monumental structures of the site.As small moveable objects used by members of the community, rocchetti present an opportunity to investigate the movement of princess polly dresses long sleeve elite images through the non-elite population of a community and their reception of aristocratic ideology presented in monumental structures.