Drawing on written sources from the late Bronze and early Iron Ages, this article provides an overview of the Akkadian vocabulary for brightness. Moreover, it seems that certain basic hue categories that are so familiar to us, YELLOW, GREEN and BLUE for instance, are neither universal nor ancient. Many incorporate non-chromatic aspects like luminosity, transparency, the contrast between wetness/desiccation, patterns and even psycho-emotional values into the concept COLOUR. However, research conducted since the late 20th century has demonstrated that different speech communities divide colour space differently. This is because in most modern European languages, as in English, the meaning of colour words focuses primarily on hue (e.g. The terminology for brightness-characterizing light-emission (dazzling, shining, glowing), reflectivity (shiny, lustrous, matt), surface illumination (well- or poorly-lit), space illumination (brilliant, dim), transparency (transparent, translucent)-constitutes an important, yet poorly studied aspect of ancient Near Eastern colour vocabularies. Anhand archäologischer und linguistischer Belege aus diesen beiden Fallbeispielen wer- den die Wahrnehmung von Farbe in Glas sowie der Wert bestimmter Arten von Farbe im Zentrum und an der Peripherie des hethitischen Reiches diskutiert. zu verstehen, und zwar anhand konkreter Beispiele aus der Hauptstadt der Hethiter, Boğazköy/Hattuˇsa (Çorum, Türkei) in Zentralanatolien und aus dem nordsyrischen Tell Atchana/Alalakh (Hatay, Türkei), Vasall der Hethiter in der späten Bronzezeit. Keywords: colour glass second millennium BC Anatolia Boğazköy/Hattuˇsa Tell Atchana/Alalakh In diesem Artikel wird versucht, die Wahrnehmung der Farbe von Glas im zweiten Jahr- tausend v. By discussing both archaeological and linguistic evidence from these two case sites, the perception of colour in glass and value of certain types of colours at the center and periphery of the Hittite Empire are discussed. This paper is an attempt to understand the perception of colour of glass in the second millennium BC by providing specific examples from the capital of Hittites, Boğazköy/Hattuˇsa (Çorum, Turkey) in Central Anatolia, and from the North Syrian Tell Atchana/Alalakh (Hatay, Turkey), which served as a vassal to the Hittites in the Late Bronze Age.
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