![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Production of Tyrian purple for use as a fabric dye began as early as 1200 BC by the Phoenicians, and was continued by the Greeks and Romans until 1453 AD, with the fall of Constantinople. Tyrian purple is a pigment made from the mucus of several species of Murex snail. In the foreground, two Roman magistrates are identified by their toga praetexta, white with a stripe of Tyrian purple.īiological pigments were often difficult to acquire, and the details of their production were kept secret by the manufacturers. Caesar, riding in the chariot, wears the solid Tyrian purple toga picta. A twentieth-century depiction of a Roman triumph celebrated by Julius Caesar. ![]()
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