Sacks, Pouches, and Purses

a poorly scanned line drawing of two ancient Greek soldiers with baggage on their shoulders — Does anyone know where this random line drawing from corporate social media comes from?

TODO in progress

In Mesopotamia all leather products were made by the leatherworker ({lu2}AŠGAB/aškāpu) who also dyed skins.

… RlA s.v. Leder(industrie), Chehrābād sack, Elephantine bag, leather purse full of silver in a grave from Uruk (the {kuš}hindu in BM 41663 + 41698 + 41905 lines 16′, 28′ / Holtz, Trial Records p. 139? CAD H pages 192, 193 under <himtu>, provided to Aramean troops in SAA 19.17) …

{kuš}LU.UB₂ (luppu: CAD L page 252, CTMMA IV No. 100:10: can hold gold or a GUR (180 L) of produce)

mē nādi “water from a skin” (Old Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh)

Cloth bag of beads from Nippur V (Neo-Assyrian period: McCown, Nippur I, p. 98)

Greek θύλακος “bag, purse, ball”

Bedroll in a Red Figure painting from Italy https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1849-0620-13 (thanks Jean Contamine also in Connolly’s Ancient City)

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