The Authors have analysed an advanced sign system connected with a class of objects referred to the textile production in Northern Italy during the second Iron Age (end of the 5th-1st Century B.C.). In the Lessinia Mountains, to the north of Verona, they could analyse 80 stone loom weights (from 1 to 2 kg heavy) presenting a varied repertoire of inscribed signs.

Numbers and letters as tools of production processes in Iron Age: the case of the weight looms in ancient Lessinia (Northern Italy)

Marchesini S.;Migliavacca M.
2014-01-01

Abstract

The Authors have analysed an advanced sign system connected with a class of objects referred to the textile production in Northern Italy during the second Iron Age (end of the 5th-1st Century B.C.). In the Lessinia Mountains, to the north of Verona, they could analyse 80 stone loom weights (from 1 to 2 kg heavy) presenting a varied repertoire of inscribed signs.
2014
Loom Weights, Iron Age textile production, Iron Age Epigraphy, Northern Italy
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