Triumphant Ishtar Brick

Latin triumphāns, celebrating victory — present-participle of triumphāre. As a color modifier, triumphant implies a saturated-and-celebratory-and-victorious quality, the deep-rich color of Roman-Imperial-period triumphal-arch spolia relief and Arch-of-Titus victory imagery. Sits at the bold-and-celebratory end of the grid, parallel to victorious and conquering.

Akkadian Ištar, Babylonian-goddess-of-love-and-war. As a color modifier, ishtar implies a Babylonian-Venus-and-eight-pointed-star quality, the visual register of Babylonian-Ishtar-Gate-and-Mesopotamian-temple hand-Babylonian-Venus-and-eight-pointed-star Babylonian-Ishtar-Gate-and-Mesopotamian-temple-and-Akkadian-cylinder-seal ishtar-and-Babylonian-Venus-and-eight-pointed-star surfaces under Babylonian-Ishtar-Gate-and-Mesopotamian-temple-and-Akkadian-cylinder-seal Babylon-and-Nineveh-and-Mari blue-glazed-brick-light. Sits at the modifier-and-myth end of the grid, parallel to isis and hera in usage.

Fired clay, mineral red. The color refers to common building brick — iron-rich earthenware kilned to the specific dusky red-orange of a Victorian terrace, a Roman aqueduct, an adobe wall in New Mexico. Less saturated than ruby, warmer than burgundy, with a chalky cast that reads as architectural rather than decorative.