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Zvi Koren gives a talk entitled “Tyrian Purple: New Ground-Breaking Insights”. This talk was presented on 17 September 2024.
This talk is not just a review of the history of “Tyrian Purple”, but highlights some of the first-hand “revolutionary” discoveries that Professor Koren made after more than three decades of chemical analyses of archaeological colorants. Thus, he endeavours to answer the following colourful questions:
• What is the meaning of “purple”?
• What is “Tyrian Purple”
• Who really discovered “purple”?
• Was Pliny’s description of the molluscan dyeing process accurate?
• Which sea-snail species was used for purple-dyeing in the Mediterranean?
• How many snails are needed for a king’s cloak?
• Which snails were used for dyeing the biblical colors – red-purple (Argaman) and bluish-purple (Tekhelet)?
Zvi Koren gives a talk entitled “Tyrian Purple: New Ground-Breaking Insights”. This talk was presented on 17 September 2024.
This talk is not just a review of the history of “Tyrian Purple”, but highlights some of the first-hand “revolutionary” discoveries that Professor Koren made after more than three decades of chemical analyses of archaeological colorants. Thus, he endeavours to answer the following colourful questions:
• What is the meaning of “purple”?
• What is “Tyrian Purple”
• Who really discovered “purple”?
• Was Pliny’s description of the molluscan dyeing process accurate?
• Which sea-snail species was used for purple-dyeing in the Mediterranean?
• How many snails are needed for a king’s cloak?
• Which snails were used for dyeing the biblical colors – red-purple (Argaman) and bluish-purple (Tekhelet)?
