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SUMMARY:“From Your Sister’s Things…” Clothing Pins and Women’s E
 conomic Agency across Early Second Millennium Anatolia and Assyria - Dr Na
 ncy Highcock\, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research\, University
  of Cambridge
DTSTART:20181127T131000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Jenny Zhao
DESCRIPTION:Nearly seventy years of scientific excavations at Kültepe hav
 e yielded a remarkable assemblage of material reflecting the rich and flui
 d daily lives of the Anatolians\, Assyrians\, and others who inhabited suc
 h a dynamic and cosmopolitan city. A diverse category of objects\, metal d
 ress pins\, has been recovered from burials at Kültepe and other Middle B
 ronze Age Anatolian sites\, providing tangible connections to the ancient 
 people who wore them. Previous scholarship has focused on the style and or
 igin of these pins\, generally associated with female adornment\, but both
  the cuneiform and material records also allow for glimpses into the econo
 mic power they held for women during this period. Pierced clothing pins or
 iginating in the Mesopotamian sphere\, called tudittu in the texts\, were 
 often gifted to women upon transformative life events such as marriage or 
 consecration into a religious order. The Old Assyrian mercantile texts rec
 ord such social transactions but also indicate that tudittu could function
  as working capital in times of need. Non-pierced Anatolian dress pins hav
 e also been recovered and the survival of their impressions on crescent-sh
 aped loom weights across Anatolia also speak to their importance to the ec
 onomic agency of women. Through a study of the various types of pins and t
 heir associated objects within the contextual framework provide by the tex
 ts\, this paper will explore the multiple roles of these personal objects 
 and analyze how both Anatolian and Assyrian women used pins to mediate the
  social\, religious\, and economic worlds in which they navigated.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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