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The meaning of color in ancient Mesopotamia / Shiyanthi Thavapalan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thavapalan, Shiyanthi, author.
- Series:
- Contemporary Cinema; volume8.
- Contemporary Cinema; volume8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colors, Words for.
- Color--Terminology.
- Color.
- Akkadian language--Semantics.
- Akkadian language.
- Akkadian philology.
- Material culture--Iraq.
- Material culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (523 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.
- Summary:
- 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 positions the development of Akkadian color language as a corollary of the history of materials and techniques in the ancient Near East.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Color Metalanguage, Signs and Convention Used
- Figures and Plates
- Color Semantics
- Abstract Colors
- Material Colors
- Colorful Matter
- Making Sense of Color
- Back Matter
- Appendix A
- Plates
- Bibliography
- Indices
- General Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-41541-6
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004415416 DOI
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