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Thavapalan, Shiyanthi,

The meaning of color in ancient Mesopotamia / Shiyanthi Thavapalan. - 1 online resource. - Contemporary Cinema; volume8 . - Contemporary Cinema; volume8. .

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9789004415416

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789004415416 DOI

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Colors, Words for.
Color--Terminology.
Akkadian language--Semantics.
Akkadian philology.
Material culture--Iraq.

LC Class. No.: PJ3189 / .T43 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 892/.1