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Tyrian purple is a reddish-purple natural dye made from the mucus of several species of predatory sea snails in the family Muricidae. The dye was highly valued in ancient times and was used by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and Byzantines as a symbol of power and wealth.
Murex is a genus of medium to large sized tropical sea snails, some of which produce the dye tyrian purple. Murex trunculus is one of the species that was used for the ancient dye, and is also known as Hexaplex trunculus or Bolinus brandaris.
Phoenicia was a thalassocratic culture that originated in the Levant and expanded across the Mediterranean, trading and colonizing from Cyprus to the Iberian Peninsula. The Phoenicians developed the world's oldest alphabet, innovated in shipbuilding and navigation, and influenced Classical Western civilization.
Hexaplex trunculus is a sea snail that produces a purple-blue dye used in ancient times. Learn about its distribution, shell description, subspecies, and human use as a dye and food.
Tyrian purple is often described as being a deep reddish purple in ancient Roman times, but depending on the snail used and the amount of heat exposure, the shade could range from a dark indigo to ...
Tyrian purple dye was “phenomenally difficult to make” because it required “thousands of crushed seashells” and was only produced along the Mediterranean coast and North Africa, the ...
Melqart was the tutelary god of Tyre and a major deity in the Phoenician and Punic pantheons. He was associated with Heracles in Greece and Hercules in Rome, and had a cult that spread across the Mediterranean.
Muricidae, also known as murex snails or rock snails, are a large and varied family of marine gastropods with over 1,700 living species. They have distinctive shells with spiral ridges, varices, and sometimes spines, and some are used to produce Tyrian purple dye.