An edition of The value of colour
(2019)
The value of colour
material and economic aspects in the ancient world
by Shiyanthi Thavapalan and David Warburton
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The value of colour: material and economic aspects in the ancient world
2019, EditionTopoi, Topoi Excellence Cluster
in English
3982067014 9783982067018
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Table of Contents
Value of colour: introduction / David A. Warburton
Colours as viewed by the ancient Egyptians and the explanation of this view as seen by academics studying colour / Wolfgang Schenkel
Colour in the Palaeolithic / Theodora Moutsiou
The colour of ornaments in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the Levant: their symbolic meaning and economic value / Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer
Significance of colour in the second millennium BC: the perception and use of glass at the centre and periphery of the Hittites / Gonca Dardeniz
Manufacturing colourful glass objects in New Kingdom Egypt: a spatial and statistical analysis / Anna K. Hodgkinson
Stones from the mountain, stoned from the kiln: colour in the glass texts from ancient Mesopotamia / Shiyanthi Thavapalan
The economic role of coloured textiles in Babylonia (1st millennium BC) / Louise Quillien
The composition of the colour palette and the socio-economic role of pigments used in Egyptian painting / Ingrid Blom-Böer (with David A. Warburton)
The language of colour and material: were architectural façades in the Aegean Bronze Age brightly painted? / Fritz Blakolmer
Colour me Greek: poetic value, economy of language and the chromatic vocabulary in Roman elegy / Lydia Pelletier-Michaud
Ancient colours: perspectives and methodological challenges / Cecilie Brøns.
Edition Notes
Papers resulting from a workshop held at the Excellence Cluster Topoi, Berlin, February 4-7, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references.
Texts in English, with summaries in English and German.
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