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Colors and patterns of ancient Near East

In the Louvre we can find the remains of a decoration from the Tiglat-Pileser III palace at Tell Ahmar, Syria (Kar-Salmanasar in Assyrian times), made 8th century BCE. It is a representation of two servants painted with tempera paint: red ocher, Egyptian blue and charcoal black, on a white preparation of calcium carbonate, and an image of a Wined genie.


Winged genie, Neo-Assyrian mural painting from the Palace of Teglat-Phalasar III, 8th century BCE.

Fragment of an ivory box from the southeast palace of Nimrud. Phoenician work, 8th century BCE.
In the British Museum

Photo by Rowanwindwhistler
Tiles with colored inlaid glazed faience from Egypt1198-1166 BCE

the representation of a Hittite man

a black African man

a man from Syria

a man from Syria

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