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  1. The meaning of color in ancient Mesopotamia
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden ; Boston

    "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... more

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    "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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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    ISBN: 9789004415379
    RVK Categories: EM 1700
    Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; volume 104
    Subjects: Akkadisch; Semantik; Wortschatz; Farbe
    Other subjects: Colors, Words for; Color / Terminology; Akkadian language / Semantics; Akkadian philology; Material culture / Iraq; Akkadian philology; Color; Colors, Words for; Material culture; Iraq; Terminology
    Scope: XIII, 509 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Dissertation, Yale University, 2017