TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thavapalan,Shiyanthi
TI  - The meaning of color in ancient Mesopotamia
T2  - Contemporary Cinema
SN  - 9789004415416
AV  - PJ3189 .T43 2020
U1  - 892/.1 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Colors, Words for
KW  - Color
KW  - Terminology
KW  - Akkadian language
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Akkadian philology
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Iraq
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004415416
ER  -