Shiyanthi throws light on how colour was interpreted in Mesopotamia. What cultural meanings were attached to colours? What was the relation between materials and colours? She explains where they sourced their pigments and how they made paints.
MET 36.70.14_Ivory with gilding (18th cent BCE) 
Lapis lazuli and agate beads, c. 2600 BCE (BM 121419) 
Glazed-brick panel, 7th cent BCE (MET 31.13.1) 
Glass furniture inlays, 9th-8th cent. BCE (MET 62.269.15a–d) 
Dyeing with murex 
Cosmetic pigment, c. 2600 BCE (BM 139529) 
Assyrian relief colored by ST (YUAG 1854)_2
2:26 Mesopotamia as a colourful place
6:01 How they saw colour
12:00 How we know about colour
14:47 Materials and colour
16:56 Sources of pigments
21:56 Experimental archaeology
23:33 The meaning of colours
Music by Ruba Hillawi
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