Royal Purple of Tyre

Jensen, L. B.

doi:10.1086/371717

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“…Purple's prestige value traces back as far as 1600 BC. 8 Lloyd B. Jensen's (1963) detailed analysis on the ancient dye's processing and possession, Royal Purple of Tyre , observes that Phoenician merchants and navigators “sailed (and rowed) to the ‘ends of the earth’ (i.e., from the Black Sea to Cadiz)” to establish settlements for profitable trade in purple or to build dye factories “where murex beds were plentiful” (107). By the early fourteenth century, the principality of Ugarit proffered a purple industry and Hittite rulers demanded “tributes” of purple (Reinhold 1970, 9) 9 .…”

Section: Purple Pasts: the Materials And Symbolic Nature Of Purpuramentioning

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Purple Pasts: Color Codification in the Ancient World

Elliott¹

2008

Law &Amp; Social Inquiry

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While developments in intellectual property have opened the door for trademarking color alone or color per se, it is important to observe that color codification is not a new phenomenon. This article outlines the quest to metaphorically trademark purple in antiquity and to provide it with clear “secondary meaning.” It highlights how language, literature, and sumptuary law was deployed to infuse purple with the appropriate symbolism, and it links contemporary debates to some of the historic moves to sequester color.

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Section: Purple Pasts: the Materials And Symbolic Nature Of Purpuramentioning

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“…7 7 Also see Jensen (1963) for a detailed exploration of the processing and manufacture of the Purple of Tyre. …”

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Purple Pasts: Color Codification in the Ancient World

Elliott¹

2008

Law &Amp; Social Inquiry

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“…They can either live in open seas or closed bays according to weather conditions (Legac & Mienis, 2010). In ancient times, one source of purple dye for clothing was Janthina purple sea snails (Jensen, 1963;Reese, 2010).…”

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First Record of Janthina globosa Swainson, 1822 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) and Prostheceraeus giesbrechtii Lang, 1884 (Platyhelminthes) in the Gulf of Antalya

Teker¹,

Gökoğlu²,

Julian³

2017

Natural and Engineering Sciences

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“…), ale i u běžného hlemýždě zahradního (Helix pomatia) či mediterán-ního hlemýždíka kropenatého (Cornu aspersum), na nichž si pochutnávali již staří Římané (Pfleger & Pradáč, 1981;Yildirim, Kebapçi, & Gümüş, 2004). Máme-li zůstat u mezipředmětových vztahů s dě-jepisem, zmiňme také ostrankovité (Muricidae), z nichž se již ve starověku získávalo vysoce ceněné purpurové či modré barvivo (Jensen, 1963). Měk-kýši mohou být chováni i v zajetí: okružákovití (Planorbidae) doplňují faunu akvárií.…”

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