ETRUSCAN PALETTE
FROM THE PAINTINGS IN THE TOMBA DEL TRICLINIO (480-470 B.C.) AND IN THE TOMBA DEL
LETTO FUNEBRE (470-460 B.c.) AT TARQUINIA
The psintings ere done on e thin coat of lime plester about one eighth to one querter
of en inch in thickness. The plester is helf lime cerbonate (mede from the limestone
in which the tombs were cut) and helf send. When the plester wes dry a thin coet of
fine whitewe sh (lime carbonete) wes first applied to the wells end ceilings. Its
purpose wes, presumebly, to provide a whiter, smoother, end more setisfactory surfece
then the more porous plaster.
YELLOW:
A neturslly occurring ochre or cley which owes
its color to e hydreted form of iron oxide
(Pe,0, H,0).
GOLDEN YELLOW: One of the several yellows in the peintings which
heve a golden end sometimes reddish hue. These
colors could be various neturally occurring ochres,
but their verying hues could, however, heve been
obteined by gently henting or calcining the netural
ochre to verious degrees.
A naturelly occurring ochre or cley which owes
its color to an enhydrous iron oxide (Feg0g).
LIGHT RED:
A neturelly occurring ochre or cley which owes
its color to an anhydrous iron oxide (Fe203).
This color, however, could heve been obteined
by gently henting or celeining the 1ight red
color.
DARK RED:
in ertificiel pigment (Cuo.Ce0*4Si0,) mede by
fusing together copper, celcium, ena silica into
e gless which wes then ground into a powder.
This pigment was probebly imported from Egypt.
BLUE:
GREEN :
A mixture of melachite, a neturelly occur: ing
besic copper carbone te (Cuco, Cu(OH),) end
Egyptian blue.
Apperently soot or lemp black--neerly pure
amphorous cerbon.
BLACK:
