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Late Bronze Age Dye Factory Found in Greece
Archaeology mag ^ | June 17, 2024 | editors / unattributed

Posted on 06/17/2024 6:54:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

According to a statement released by PLOS, a purple dye workshop dated to the sixteenth-century B.C. has been discovered on the Greek island of Aegina by Lydia Berger of Paris Lodron University and her colleagues. The researchers identified the workshop through the purple pigment preserved on ceramics that may have served as dye containers; grinding stones; a waste pit; and the crushed shells of marine snails. Most of these shells came from the banded dye-murex species of Mediterranean snail. The bones of young mammals, including piglets and lambs, were also recovered at the site. The animals are thought to have been sacrificed as offerings to protect the production process. Continued examination of the workshop is expected to provide additional insight into the techniques used to manufacture the valuable purple dye. Read the original scholarly article about this research in PLOS ONE.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: aegean; bronzeage; dyefactory; godsgravesglyphs; greece; minoans; murex; mycenaeans; purple
View of Aegina Kolonna with (inset, left to right) a 16th-century drawing of a purple snail; Hexaplex trunculus; and a purple pigment sample. Aegina Kolonna excavation, Department of Classics, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg.
S. Münster, Cosmographia, 1544; G. Forstenpointner; L. Berger
S. Münster, Cosmographia, 1544; G. Forstenpointner; L. Berger


1 posted on 06/17/2024 6:54:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Those snails were of much greater importance once they came out of their shells.

2 posted on 06/17/2024 6:55:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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This 2,000-year-old piece of wool dyed with murex-based blue was found in a cave on the western shore of the Dead Sea. It is one of the few surviving ancient textiles colored with the valuable hue.

[The Price of Purple | Sara Toth Stub | Letter From Israel | November/December 2020 | Archaeology Magazine]
Courtesy Clara Amit, part of the collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority
Courtesy Clara Amit, part of the collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority

3 posted on 06/17/2024 7:00:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Many Aegeans dyed to bring us this information.

4 posted on 06/17/2024 7:05:56 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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The rest of the Murex keyword, sorted:

6 posted on 06/17/2024 7:13:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Not just Aegean, but many Geans.

7 posted on 06/17/2024 7:15:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

How are or were those snails collected?


8 posted on 06/17/2024 7:20:29 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: fella

“Here…snail snail snail”


9 posted on 06/17/2024 7:40:47 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SunkenCiv

And then the French ate them...................


10 posted on 06/18/2024 5:05:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: fella

There’s a pic of a Roman example in the article linked here:

https://archaeology.org/issues/november-december-2020/letters-from/israel-purple-dye/

https://archaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Israel-Roman-Pool.jpg


11 posted on 06/18/2024 5:44:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Dye murex snails:


12 posted on 06/18/2024 12:17:27 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Pretty stuff.


13 posted on 06/19/2024 9:25:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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