The meaning of color in ancient Mesopotamia
"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 misconcepti...
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| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2020]
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Culture and history of the ancient Near East (volume 104)
Année: 2020 |
| Collection/Revue: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East
volume 104 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Akkadien
/ Couleur
B Mesopotamien / Langage |
| RelBib Classification: | BC Religions du Proche-Orient ancien HB Ancien Testament |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Akkadian philology
B Akkadian language Semantics B Colors, Words for B Color Terminology B Material Culture (Iraq) B Publication universitaire |
| Résumé: | "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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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references "The present book grew out of the doctoral thesis I submitted to the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University in 2017." (Acknowledgements) |
| ISBN: | 9004415378 |