Cleland Liza, Stears Karen, Davies Glenys. Colour in the Ancient Mediterranean World

BAR Publishing, 2004. — 206 p. — (BAR International Series 1267).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