H2020Индивидуална стипендия2015–2017

CHLAMYS · The cultural biography of a garment in Hellenistic Egypt

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2015-05-01 → 2017-04-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 212 195 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-CAR

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Накратко на български

Хламията (древногръцка дреха) се анализира като културен символ и предмет от ежедневието в Египет през епохата на Елинизъма. Това помага да се запълнят празнините в знанията ни за облеклото, идентичността и древната картография.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Chlamys: The cultural biography of a garment in Hellenistic Egypt

This 2 MSCA-IF focussed on reconstructing the cultural biography of a single garment, the chlamys and uncovering the role of textile and dress material culture in the social and economic activities of the population of Hellenistic Egypt. One of the major innovative aspects of this project was that the chlamys was investigated as a worn object and a cultural symbol, thus capturing multiple glimpses of everyday life in Hellenistic Egypt, while providing a reassessment of the ongoing discourse on dress, ethnicity and identity in cross-cultural contact. The overall aim of this project was to close the existing gap in knowledge about ancient Greek dress. The 1st aim was to investigate how the choice of dress related to identity in Hellenistic Egypt by looking for the presence of this garment term in the documentary sources of the period. To this end, the project collected sources testifying to the role of Greek garments in Alexandria as well as in different parts of the vast and diverse Egyptian territory. The 2nd aim was to highlight the relation of the chlamys to Alexandrian cartography and topography, especially in regard to cartographic heritage traced back to Eratosthenes’ imagined world as a chlamys-shaped one. A major outcome of the project was research conducted on rare maps spanning modern times from 15th to 19th c. By investigating modern reconstructions of Eratosthenes’ maps the project highlighted the importance of looking into the modern reception of ancient Greek cartography. The final aim was to examine the semantic aspects of Greek dress vocabulary. This inquiry led to the discovery of a major lacuna in knowledge about Greek dress terminology. A major outcome was the construction of a trilingual terminology (English, French, Modern Greek) of Ancient Greek dress based on ontology.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Hellenistic Egyptian history has been described as a 'tale of two cultures'. This duality is manifest in the differences between the textile cultures of the two ethic groups that came into contact during the time of the Ptolemies. The fundamental differences concern: a/ the traditional fibre used (linen in Egypt–wool in Greece); b/ the colour preference for garments (white for Egypt-a variety of vivid colours in Greece; c/ the loom used for weaving (horizontal in Egypt-vertical in Greece). When Alexander the Great first came to Egypt, he decided to leave his mark on the territory, and founded the first city that would bear his name: Alexandria. Descriptions of the city detailed by such later ancient authors as Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Pliny the Elder and Plutarch report that the city had the shape of a chlamys, the typical woollen cloak of Alexander and his cavalry. The first chlamys-shaped wold map was also produced in Alexandria by Eratosthenes, head librarian at the famous library under the third Ptolemy. The founding of Alexandria inaugurates systematic cross-cultural interactions between Greeks and Egyptians, two ethnic groups with distinct languages, cultures, ways of life, and, naturally, dress. The garment chlamys becomes the garment of Ptolemaic royals, while it continues to be the garment of the army. The make-up of this largely mercenary army, though, had since become ethnically diverse, and included local Egyptians. A host of sources (e.g. papyri, iconography on temples, tombs, ostraca, coinage) testify to the fact that the chlamys becomes widespread in both Alexandria and the rest of the Egyptian territory. This project investigates the garment chlamys both as a material object and as a cultural symbol, thus capturing multiple glimpses of everyday life in Hellenistic Egypt, while providing a reassessment of the ongoing discource on dress, ethnicity and identity in cross-cultural cont

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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