The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia

History 2019-10-212019-10-21 Shiyanthi Thavapalan

Author : Shiyanthi Thavapalan

Publisher : BRILL

Release : 2019-10-21

ISBN-13 : 9004415416

Page : 524 pages

Rating : 4.5/5 from 416 voters

"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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