Crimson & Indigo & Beige

Indigo (very deep, blue-violet — the characteristic very deep blue-violet of the most immediately internationally famous ancient Mesopotamian architectural monument: the Ishtar Gate of Babylon — the most specifically lapis-lazuli-glazed and the most comprehensively dragon-and-bull-decorated of all the ancient Near Eastern city gates — the specific very deep, slightly blue-shifted indigo of the most concentrated lapis lazuli frit glaze applied to the most important brick surfaces of the Babylonian Ishtar Gate — the most immediately impressively preserved and the most comprehensively archaeologically recovered of all the ancient Mesopotamian major architectural monuments — now in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin) and Beige (warm, pale — the characteristic warm pale beige of the most important Mesopotamian construction and writing material: the sun-dried and kiln-fired clay — the most immediately and the most comprehensively available of all the ancient Near Eastern raw materials — the specific warm pale beige of the most typical Mesopotamian alluvial clay — sun-dried to the most characteristic pale yellow-beige of the most ubiquitous Babylonian and Sumerian construction brick and writing tablet) create the most specifically Mesopotamian and the most immediately ancient Near Eastern cool-neutral pair. Against Crimson's passionate fired-brick warm, this creates the most specifically ancient Babylonian Mesopotamian palette.

The palette is the visual world of ancient Mesopotamia — the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively historically significant of all the ancient Near Eastern civilizations (Mesopotamia — from Greek: Μεσοποτάμια — 'land between the rivers' — the Tigris and Euphrates river valley — the most immediately famous and the most comprehensively documented 'cradle of civilization' — the region that produced the most ancient and the most immediately historically significant of all the human civilization milestones: the most ancient writing system — Sumerian cuneiform — approximately 3400 BCE; the most ancient legal code — the Code of Hammurabi — approximately 1754 BCE; the most ancient Epic — the Epic of Gilgamesh — approximately 2100 BCE).