Economic Aspects of Colours in Antiquity

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Economic Aspects of Colours in Antiquity

Veranstalter
Warburton, David (Excellence Cluster Topoi) Thavapalan, Shiyanthi (Yale University)
Veranstaltungsort
Topoi Building Mitte, Hannoversche Straße 6
Ort
Berlin
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
04.02.2016 - 07.02.2016
Website
https://www.topoi.org/event/32055/
Von
Thavapalan, Shiyanthi

Present in every strata of human activity – from fashion, art and literature to religion, ritual and earliest science – colour was clearly a significant material and conceptual element of life in the ancient world. This appears to us entirely normal and yet the concept must have some kind of origin. Today, we take the ubiquity of colours for granted and try to understand its history in terms of our modern semantic and physical categories. While this approach is useful in comprehending some aspects of the development of colours, it founders as we go further back. In the Bronze Age, many striking colourful substances, such as textiles, glass, stones and paint, are present in the material record, but the verbal categories of contemporary languages do not yet clearly demarcate these domains as we would recognize them. How did our modern conceptual categories emerge? In this workshop, we aim to explore the social and cultural “meanings” of colour by concentrating on the economic sphere. What was the value of colourful stones and why was coloured glass allowed to substitute them? How and why were glass and faience produced? What was the difference between artificially manufactured colours and the raw materials (dyes, pigments and mineral ores) that served to produce them? These are questions that are fundamental to understanding not only human values, but also cognitive history. In this sense, taking a slice of the story of colour opens up a window into the history of the human mind.

Programm

4.2.2016

14:30 - 15:00: Registration

15:00 - 15:15: Greetings and Introduction
Michael Meyer (Freie Universität Berlin)
Shiyanthi Thavapalan (Yale University)
David Alan Warburton (Excellence Cluster Topoi)

15:15 - 15:45: The Color of Ornaments in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the Levant: Their Symbolic Meaning and Economic Value
Daniella Bar-Yosef (Tel Aviv University)

15:45 - 16:05: Colours in Early Balkan Metallurgy
David Alan Warburton (Excellence Cluster Topoi)

16:05 - 16:35
On the Importance of Different Coat Colours in Regard to Ancient Near Eastern Cattle: Economic Texts versus Religio-cultural Texts of the 3rd and 2nd mill. BC
Rosel Pientka-Hinz (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

16:35 - 17:00: Move to HU (Oranienburger Tor to Universitätsstr.)
HU Main Building, Veranstaltungsraum 2095A

17:00 - 18:30: Die Farben aus der Sicht der Alten Ägypter und die Erklärung dieser Sicht aus der Sicht der Farbforscher
Wolfgang Schenkel (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen)

18:30 - 19:30: Discussion

19:30 - 20:00: Reception, Foyer in front of Raum 2070A

5.2.2016

09:30 - 10:05: Manufacturing Vitreous Colors: Frit, Faience and Glass Production in the Second Millennium BC Tell Atchana, Alalakh (Turkey)
Gonca Dardeniz (Koç Üniversitesi)

10:05 - 10:35: Stones from the Mountain, Stones from the Kiln: Color in the Glass Texts from Ancient Mesopotamia
Shiyanthi Thavapalan (Yale University)

10:35 - 11:05: Colored Fragments from a Dark Age
Cinzia Pappi (Universität Innsbruck)

11:05 - 11:15: Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:45: Discussion

12:45 - 14:00: Lunch

14:10 - 14:40: Lapis lazuli, Amethyst and Other Precious Materials in the Neolithic and Bronze Age with Special Reference to the Aegean
David Alan Warburton (Excellence Cluster Topoi)

14:40 - 15:10: Multicoloured Textiles in Babylonia During the First Millennium BC
Louise Quillien (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

15:10 - 15:25: Coffee Break

15:25 - 16:30: Discussion

6.2.2016

09:30 - 10:00: Ground Iron Oxide Rock Pigments in the Ancient Near East
Martine Melein (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

10:00 - 10:30: Pigments and Painting Techniques in the Book of the Dead of Amenemhet
Robert Fuchs (Technische Hochschule Köln)

10:30 - 11:00: Die Farben Altägyptens - Überlieferung, Vorkommen und Anwendung in Zeit und Raum anhand von ca. 1,380 Proben in 145 Monumenten
Ingrid Blom-Böer (Technische Hochschule Köln)

11:00 - 11:15: Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:45: Discussion

12:45 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 14:30: The Language of Colour and Material: Were Architectural Façades in the Aegean Bronze Age Brightly Painted?
Fritz Blakolmer (Universität Wien)

14:30 - 15:00: The Terminology of Painting Materials in Greek and Roman Texts. A report of the Research Group ‘Ancient Pigments’
Doris Oltrogge (Technische Hochschule Köln)

15:00 - 15:30: From Homer to Ovid: How Precious Dyes Become Precious Words
Lydia Pelletier-Michaud (Université Laval)

15:30 - 15:45: Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:30: Discussion

19:00 - 20:30: Dinner

7.2.2016

09:30 - 10:00: Closing Note
Shiyanthi Thavapalan (Yale University)
David Alan Warburton (Excellence Cluster Topoi)

10:00 - 12:30: Roundtable Discussion

Kontakt

Shiyanthi Thavapalan

Yale University, P.O. Box 208236. New Haven, CT 06520-8236

shiyanthi.thavapalan@yale.edu

https://www.topoi.org/event/32055/