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CATEGORIES:Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Semi
 nars
SUMMARY:“From Your Sister’s Things…” Clothing Pins and Wom
 en’s Economic Agency across Early Second Millenniu
 m Anatolia and Assyria - Dr Nancy Highcock\, McDon
 ald Institute for Archaeological Research\, Univer
 sity of Cambridge
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UID:TALK111388AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/111388
DESCRIPTION:Nearly seventy years of scientific excavations at 
 Kültepe have yielded a remarkable assemblage of ma
 terial reflecting the rich and fluid daily lives o
 f the Anatolians\, Assyrians\, and others who inha
 bited such a dynamic and cosmopolitan city. A dive
 rse category of objects\, metal dress pins\, has b
 een recovered from burials at Kültepe and other Mi
 ddle Bronze Age Anatolian sites\, providing tangib
 le connections to the ancient people who wore them
 . Previous scholarship has focused on the style an
 d origin of these pins\, generally associated with
  female adornment\, but both the cuneiform and mat
 erial records also allow for glimpses into the eco
 nomic power they held for women during this period
 . Pierced clothing pins originating in the Mesopot
 amian sphere\, called tudittu in the texts\, were 
 often gifted to women upon transformative life eve
 nts such as marriage or consecration into a religi
 ous order. The Old Assyrian mercantile texts recor
 d such social transactions but also indicate that 
 tudittu could function as working capital in times
  of need. Non-pierced Anatolian dress pins have al
 so been recovered and the survival of their impres
 sions on crescent-shaped loom weights across Anato
 lia also speak to their importance to the economic
  agency of women. Through a study of the various t
 ypes of pins and their associated objects within t
 he contextual framework provide by the texts\, thi
 s paper will explore the multiple roles of these p
 ersonal objects and analyze how both Anatolian and
  Assyrian women used pins to mediate the social\, 
 religious\, and economic worlds in which they navi
 gated.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
CONTACT:Dr Jenny Zhao
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