The value of colour
Subtitle: material and economic aspects in the ancient world
By: edited by Shiyanthi Thavapalan, David Alan Warburton
Contributors: Excellence Cluster Topoi
Series: Berlin studies of the ancient world -- 70; Berlin studies of the ancient world -- 70.
Publisher: EditionTopoi, Topoi Excellence Cluster
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9783982067018
Subjects: Ancient Art; Congresses; Themes, motives; History; Color in art
Other titles: Material and economic aspects in the ancient world
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.
Table of contents: title: Value of colour: introduction / David A. Warburton; title: Colours as viewed by the ancient Egyptians and the explanation of this view as seen by academics studying colour / Wolfgang Schenkel; title: Colour in the Palaeolithic / Theodora Moutsiou; title: The colour of ornaments in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the Levant: their symbolic meaning and economic value / Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer; title: Significance of colour in the second millennium BC: the perception and use of glass at the centre and periphery of the Hittites / Gonca Dardeniz; title: Manufacturing colourful glass objects in New Kingdom Egypt: a spatial and statistical analysis / Anna K. Hodgkinson; title: Stones from the mountain, stoned from the kiln: colour in the glass texts from ancient Mesopotamia / Shiyanthi Thavapalan; title: The economic role of coloured textiles in Babylonia (1st millennium BC) / Louise Quillien; title: The composition of the colour palette and the socio-economic role of pigments used in Egyptian painting / Ingrid Blom-Böer (with David A. Warburton); title: The language of colour and material: were architectural façades in the Aegean Bronze Age brightly painted? / Fritz Blakolmer; title: Colour me Greek: poetic value, economy of language and the chromatic vocabulary in Roman elegy / Lydia Pelletier-Michaud; title: Ancient colours: perspectives and methodological challenges / Cecilie Brøns.