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Tyrian Purple

• Tyrian Purple was first produced by the Ancient Phoenicians in the city of Tyre.

   

• Currently Tyre is the fourth largest city in Lebenon, and a popular tourist destination.

   

• Tyrian Purple is produced by a fresh mucous secretion of a small sea snale called murex. The exact species is spiny dye-murex.

   

• Tyrian Purple was, and still is, very expensive. In Ancient Rome, to buy Tyrian Purple cost its weight in silver.

   

• Approximately 60,000 murex animals were required to make one pound of Tyrian Purple.

   

• Finlay in her book Color: A Natural History of the Palette describes a hill in the Phoenician port city of Sidon (also in Lebenon), called Murex Hill, composed of billions of discarded murex shells. The hill is more than meters in diameter and 50 meters high.

   

• Some broken murex shells can still be found, but Murex Hill is mostly covered with earth, various buildings and a cemetery.

   

• The Ancient Roman naturalist Pliny describes the steps in process of manufacturing Tyrian Purple:

   

  • Murex were caught in baskets lowered into the sea at the end of long ropes. Frogs or mussels were used as bait.

     

  • The murex were pulled from their shells, and the vein containing the pigment was extracted.

     

  • The pigment was mixed with salt and repeatedly heated in vats to separate water from the pigment. The whole process took about ten days.

     

  • Due to the large number of decaying murex bodies, the process generated considerable stench.

     

  • One of the trade secrets of the Phoenicians was to mix the purple dye obtained from murex with the more reddish dye obtained from the Buccinum shellfish. Here is the approximate color of the resulting Tyrian Purple dye:

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• Tyrian Purple actually looks more like maroon than purple. Some languages translate its color as scarlet.

   

• Purple was the official royal color in the Ancient Roman Empire.

   

• Here is the Byzantine Emperor Justinian dressed in Tyrian purple.

   

• The use of Tyrian Purple as a royal color in Ancient Rome was already present with Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, his wife. They had furnature draped with purple covers.

   

• Some of the emperors like Valentian, Theodosius, and Arcadias in the fifth century, only allowed the emperor to wear purple. Death was the penalty for violators.

   

• The third century emperors Septimus Severus allowed women to wear purple, but only men of high status like generals could wear it.

   

• In the fourth century, Diocletian encouraged everyone to wear purple, the more the better.

   

• Today, murex can still be found off the coast of Tyre, but it is rare.

   

• Shellfish similar to murex can be found in other parts of the world. In central america, they are called caracola; in Japan they are called murasaki.

   

• In Mexico, the caracola are "milked" to obtain their dye. It is used to dye cloth for indigenous clothing.

   

• In the 1800s, processes chemists invented synthetic purple dyes that were much cheaper than murex, so Tyrian Purple is no longer available.

 

 

 

 

 

Space-filling model of the Tyrian purple molecule (6,6′-dibromoindigotin), C₁₆H₈N₂O₂Br₂.

* X-ray crystallographic data from Sine Larsen and Frank Wätjen (1980).  - Author : Ben Mills

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