Mirror: http://tinyurl.com/qcgtrlm
Colours in Ancient India will also be a subject for further researches based on the following:
1. Colours used in the Bhasmarati of Mahakala in Ujjain as the ekamukha linga is decorated adored and venerated
2. Three distinct colours used in the terracotta toys of two married women found at Nausharo, ca. 2500 BCE: sindhur (red vermilion) on the maang is painted saffron or red; hair is painted black and the jewelry are painted golden. These are exemplars of the continuing tradition in Hindu civilization of wearing sindhur on the maang after marriage and also wearing s'ankha bangles, a tradition which dates back to ca. 6500 BCE evidenced by a burial of a woman with wide bangle in Nausharo. See also turbinella pyrum seashells, s'ankha with red painted lines.
3. Lead weight with leopard and antelope from Shahi-Tump with colors
Item 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuIQ57qswb0 (1:26:53)
Bhasma Aarti Full Shri Mahakal Jyotirling Temple Ujjain with Shringar, Poojan, & Aarti Use of colour is demonstrated in the Bhang Shringar segment as the mukha (rebus: muh 'ingot') on Sivalinga is created by the Potr, the purifier priest.
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Ornamental ball (lead weight) discovered from Shahi Tump, Makran. It is 15 cm high and 15 kg in weight made by pure lead and wrapped in copper using cire perdue technique ca. 2500 BCE. With deciphered Indus Script hieroglyphs signifying hard alloys: karaDa 'leopard' Rebus: karaDa 'hard alloy' mlekh 'goat'' rebus: milakkhu 'copper'; mleccha 'copper'. Meluhha!!
Kalyanaraman
From Alexander Nagel [mailto:NagelA@si.edu]:
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Expert is in: *Colors in Ancient Mesopotamia*
Meet Professor Astrid Nunn from the University of Wurzburg in Germany who works on ancient Mesopotamian wall paintings, pigments and color.
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
10th and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20560
November 17, 2015, 2pm
Meet Professor Astrid Nunn from the University of Wurzburg in Germany who works on ancient Mesopotamian wall paintings, pigments and color.
Weblink: https://qrius.si.edu/
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S. Kalyanaraman
Sarasvati Research Center
Nov. 16, 2015
Colours in Ancient India will also be a subject for further researches based on the following:
1. Colours used in the Bhasmarati of Mahakala in Ujjain as the ekamukha linga is decorated adored and venerated
2. Three distinct colours used in the terracotta toys of two married women found at Nausharo, ca. 2500 BCE: sindhur (red vermilion) on the maang is painted saffron or red; hair is painted black and the jewelry are painted golden. These are exemplars of the continuing tradition in Hindu civilization of wearing sindhur on the maang after marriage and also wearing s'ankha bangles, a tradition which dates back to ca. 6500 BCE evidenced by a burial of a woman with wide bangle in Nausharo. See also turbinella pyrum seashells, s'ankha with red painted lines.
3. Lead weight with leopard and antelope from Shahi-Tump with colors
Item 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuIQ57qswb0 (1:26:53)
Bhasma Aarti Full Shri Mahakal Jyotirling Temple Ujjain with Shringar, Poojan, & Aarti Use of colour is demonstrated in the Bhang Shringar segment as the mukha (rebus: muh 'ingot') on Sivalinga is created by the Potr, the purifier priest.
Item 2:
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Nausharo: female figurines. Wearing sindhur at the parting of the hair. Hair painted black, ornaments golden and sindhur red. Period 1B, 2800 – 2600 BCE. 11.6 x 30.9 cm.[After Fig. 2.19, Kenoyer, 1998].![]()
Turbinella pyrum, s'ankha are also embellished with red paint. "Libation vessels made of the conch shell (marine shell) Turbinella pyrum. One of these is decorated with vermilion filled incised lines. A single spiraling design is carved around the apex and a double incised line frames the edge of the orifice. This type of vessel was used in later times for ritual libations and for administering sacred water or medicine to patients. " http://notapennyformythoughts.blogspot.in/2013_08_01_archive.html
Item 3:
Ornamental ball (lead weight) discovered from Shahi Tump, Makran. It is 15 cm high and 15 kg in weight made by pure lead and wrapped in copper using cire perdue technique ca. 2500 BCE. With deciphered Indus Script hieroglyphs signifying hard alloys: karaDa 'leopard' Rebus: karaDa 'hard alloy' mlekh 'goat'' rebus: milakkhu 'copper'; mleccha 'copper'. Meluhha!!
Kalyanaraman
From Alexander Nagel [mailto:NagelA@si.edu]:
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Expert is in: *Colors in Ancient Mesopotamia*
Meet Professor Astrid Nunn from the University of Wurzburg in Germany who works on ancient Mesopotamian wall paintings, pigments and color.
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
10th and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20560
November 17, 2015, 2pm
Meet Professor Astrid Nunn from the University of Wurzburg in Germany who works on ancient Mesopotamian wall paintings, pigments and color.
Weblink: https://qrius.si.edu/
When
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 2:00pm
Venue
Natural History Museum
Event
Location
Ground Floor, Q?rius
Cost
Free
Description
Meet Astrid Nunn, a scientist from the University of Wurzburg in Germany who works on ancient Mesopotamian wall paintings, pigments and color.
Sarasvati Research Center
Nov. 16, 2015