White, Red and Black. Technical Relationships and Stylistic Perceptions between Colours, Lights and Places in Mesopotamia and Syria during the Third Millennium BC

The classification of the figurative and decorative models detected in the Early Bronze Age Building FF2 at Ebla, dating to the EB IVA, outlines contextual differences in the aesthetic perception and figurative translation of the human and natural phenomena, while the analysis of some recurrent motifs identifies an ideographic grammar that served as a base model for the technological division of the space. In the repertory of painted motifs one can appreciate the existence of a hidden sign list for the geometric reduction of the human behaviour, as if it was a library where original themes could be selected and repeated in the form of aesthetic systems which survived historical periods.