Treasures from the sea : sea silk and shellfish purple dye in antiquity
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford ; Philadelphia :
Oxbow Books,
2017.
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| Umfang/Format: |
158 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Ancient textiles series
30 |
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| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 16 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction / by Hedvig Landenius Enegren and Francesco Meo
- Byssus and sea silk : a linguistic problem with consequences / Felicitas Maeder
- Morphology, properties and microscopical identification of sea silk / Anne Sicken
- Tangled threads : byssus and sea silk in the Bronze Age : an interdisciplinary approach / Elena Soriga and Alfredo Carannante
- Finds of Pinna nobilis, Hexaplex trunculus and evidence for specialised textile production in Aetolian Chalkis / Sanne Houby-Nielsen
- Taras and sea silk / Francesco Meo
- Dal bisso grezzo al filato di bisso = From raw sea silk to byssus thread / Assuntina Pes and Giuseppina Pes
- Dyeing wool and sea silk with purple pigment from Hexaplex trunculus / Inge Boesken Kanold
- Recent advances in the understanding of the chemistry of Tyrian purple production from Mediterranean molluscs / Chris Cooksey
- Mari(ne) purple : Western textile technology in middle Bronze Age Syria / Elena Soriga
- The spread of purple dyeing in the eastern Mediterranean : a transfer of technological knowledge? / Christoph Kremer
- Sacred colours : purple textiles in Greek sanctuaries in the second half of the 1st millennium BC / Cecilie Brøns
- "A Lydian chiton with a purple fringe..." : the gift of the garment to the Hera of Samos and Hera of Sele / Bianca Ferrara
- Purple for the masses? : shellfish purple-dyed textiles from the quarry workers' cemetery at Strozzacapponi (Perugia/Corciano), Italy / Margarita Gleba, Ina Vanden Berghe, Luana Cenciaioli
- Historical outline and chromatic properties of Purpura rubra Tarentina and its potential identification with purple dye extracted from Bolinus brandaris / Fabienne Meiers
- "Purple wars" : fishing rights and political conflicts concerning the production of marine dyes in Hellenistic Greece / Carmen Alfaro Giner and Francisco Javier Fernández Nieto
- Purpurarii in the western Mediterranean / Benedict J. Lowe.
