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English: SION (SWITZERLAND) / ÉGLISE DE VALÉRE / ABEGG-STIFTUNG, RIGGISBERG
This fragment from an 11th-century Byzantine robe shows griffins embroidered on a delicate silk woven of murex-dyed threads. It was in the——eastern Roman empire of Byzantium that the "symbolic power of murex purple reached its apogee." |
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Date | Made in 11th century. Published in Saudi Aramco World, Volume 57, Number 4 July/August 2006 | |||||||||
Source | http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200604/millennia.of.murex.htm | |||||||||
Author | Unknown Byzantine weaver | |||||||||
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