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Colour in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Liza Cleland, Karen Stears and Glenys Davies 2004 © BAR Publishing
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Series
  • BAR pre-2020
  • BAR International Series pre-2020
ISBN(s)
  • 9781841713731 (paperback)
  • 9781407326870 (ebook)
BAR Number
  • S1267
Subject
  • Levant / Near East
  • Art / Sculpture / Gems / Seals
  • Classical and Hellenistic
  • Mediterranean
  • Roman
  • Late Antiquity and Byzantium
  • Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology
  • Ritual / Religion / Temples
  • Dress / Jewellery / Personal Ornament
  • Epigraphy / Ancient and Medieval Texts / Papyri
  • Bronze Age and Iron Age
  • Egypt and Sudan
  • Greece, Aegean, Crete and Black Sea
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Figures and Plates
  • Introduction
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Section One: The Creation of Colour
  • Colours of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Artefacts in the National Museums of Scotland
  • Take it or Leave it? Towards More Non-Destructive Approaches in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age Painted Plaster Studies
  • Notes on the Nature of Creta Anularia and Vitruvius' Recipe for Egyptian Blue
  • The Role of Colour in Herod's Place at Jericho
  • Red Coloured Textiles in the Linear B Inscriptions
  • Purple Dyeing in the Mediterranean World: Characterisation of Biblical Tekhelet
  • The Industrial Exploitation of Murex: Purple Dye Production in the Western Mediterranean
  • Coloured Textiles Found Along the Spice Route Joining Petra and Gaza - Examples from the First to Eighth Centuries AD
  • Section Two: Colour in Artistic Culture
  • Colours of Power: Brown Men and Brown Women in the Art of Akhenaten
  • The Use of Colour in the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Colour in the Aegean Bronze Age: From Monochromy to Polychromy
  • Colour Coding and the Representation of Costumes in Mycenaean Wall Painting
  • Amber
  • Pretending to be What They Are Not; Colour and the Deceptive Gift
  • Athena Blues? Colour and Divinity in Ancient Greece
  • Empedocles and the Ancient Painters
  • Coloured Hellenistic Architectural Remains from El Ashmunein (Hermopolis Magna) Egypt
  • Section Three: Colour in Literary and Liguistic Culture
  • The Cosmetic Use of Red Ochre (Miltos)
  • Melas in Greek Cultural Practices: The Case of Heroic Sacrifices in the Perigesis of Pausanias
  • The Colours of Desire and Death: Colour Terms in Bion's Epitaph on Adonis
  • The Colour 'Blush' in Ancient Rome
  • Colour Sequences in Catullus' 'Long Poems'
  • The Terminology of Ancient Egyptian Colours in Context
  • The Semantics of Colour in the Early Greek Word-Hoard
  • After-Paper
  • Colour in Antiquity
  • Plate Section
  • Captions
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