Acknowledgements Color Metalanguage, Signs and Convention Used List of Figures and Plates 1Color Semantics 1.1What is Color? 1.2Color Vision and Language: Gladstone, Magnus, Allen and the Puzzle of Color Vocabularies 1.3Color Categories and Names: Relativity and Universalism 1.4Scope and Nature of the Present Study 2Abstract Colors 2.1Talking about Color in Akkadian 2.2Abstract Color Words 2.3Aspects of Color 2.

4Terminology for the Process of Coloring and the State of Being Colored 2.4.1 Basalu 2.4.2 Samatu 2.4.3 ?arapu 2.4.

4 Tarapu 2.5Terminology for Abstract Color Terms 2.5.1 Arqu 2.5.2 Barmu 2.5.3 Da ?mu 2.

5.4 Ebbu, namru(with ellu) 2.5.5 Eklu, e?û(with adru) 2.5.6 ?elû 2.5.7 ?/russû 2.

5.8 Pelû 2.5.9 Pe?û 2.5.10 Samu 2.5.11 ?almu 2.

5.12 Tarku 3Material Colors 3.1What are Material Colors? 3.2Materials and Colors in Parts of Speech and in the Archaeological Record 3.3Abstraction 3.4Colored Materials 3.4.1 Wool and Leather 3.

4.2 Pigments 3.4.3 Glass 3.4.4 Metals 3.5Terminology for Fabrics, Stones and Glass 3.5.

1 Argamannuand takiltu 3.5.2 Du?su 3.5.3 ?a?artu 3.5.4 ?as?uru/?at?uru 3.5.

5 ?asmanu 3.5.6 Kina??u 3.5.7 Makru 3.5.8 Surat?u 3.5.

9 Tabarruand nabasu 3.5.10 Tamk/qar?u 3.5.11 Uqnû 3.6Terminology for Dyes, Pigments and Colorants 3.6.1 ?i/enzuru, ?i/enzuribu, inzuratu 3.

6.2 ?uratu 3.6.3 ?ur?uratu 3.6.4 Kalgukku 3.6.5 Kalû 3.

6.6 Kasû 3.6.7 Sarsarru 3.6.8 Ur?û/uri?û 3.6.9 Zagindurû 3.

7Terminology for Metals 3.7.1 ?ura?u 4Colorful Matter 4.1History of Scholarship on the North-West Palace 4.2The Polychromy Then and Now 4.3Museology 4.3.1 Acquisition and Display of the Assyrian Reliefs at Yale University 4.

3.2 Conservation 4.4Egyptian Blue on the Assyrian Reliefs at Yale University: A Study by Visible-induced Luminescence Imaging 4.4.1 Egyptian Blue and VIL-imaging 4.4.2 VIL-imaging on the Yale Reliefs: Analysis and Discussion 4.5The 'Colorful Matter' of Assyrian Architecture Epilogue: Making Sense of Color Bibliography Appendix A Appendix B Plates.