The meaning of color in ancient Mesopotamia / by Shiyanthi Thavapalan
Color Semantics -- Abstract Colors -- Material Colors -- Colorful Matter -- Epilogue: Making of Color.
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| Superior document: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East volume 104 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Boston : Brill, [2020] |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East
volume 104 |
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| Physical Description: | XIII, 509 Seiten; Illustrationen |
| Notes: | Bibliographie: Seite [419]-462 |
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| Summary: | Color Semantics -- Abstract Colors -- Material Colors -- Colorful Matter -- Epilogue: Making of Color. "In The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia, Shiyanthi Thavapalan offers the first in-depth study of the words and expressions for colors in the Akkadian language (c. 2500-500 BCE). By combining philological analysis with the technical investigation of materials, she debunks the misconception that people in Mesopotamia had a limited sense of color and convincingly positions the development of Akkadian color language as a corollary of the history of materials and techniques in the ancient Near East"-- |
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| ISBN: | 9789004415379 |
| ac_no: | AC15537666 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Shiyanthi Thavapalan |