Treasures from the Sea

CONTENTS

Introduction
by Hedvig Landenius Enegren and Francesco Meo

1. Byssus and Sea Silk: A Linguistic Problem With Consequences
by Felicitas Maeder

2. Morphology, Properties and Microscopical Identification of Sea Silk
by Anne Sicken

3. Tangled Threads. Byssus and Sea Silk in the Bronze Age: an Interdisciplinary Approach
by Elena Soriga and Alfredo Carannante

4. Finds of Pinna Nobilis, Hexaplex Trunculus and Evidence For a Specialized Textile Production in Aetolian Chalkis
by Sanne Houby-Nielsen

5. Taras and Sea Silk
by Francesco Meo

6. Dal bisso grezzo al filato di bisso / From Raw Sea Silk to Byssus Thread
by Assuntina Pes and Giuseppina Pes

7. Dyeing Wool And Sea Silk With Purple Pigment From Hexaplex Trunculus
by Inge Boesken Kanold

8. Recent Advances in the Understanding of the Chemistry of Tyrian Purple Production From Mediterranean Molluscs
by Chris Cooksey

9. Mari(ne) Purple: Western Textile Technology in Middle Bronze Age Syria
by Elena Soriga

10. The Spread of Purple Dyeing in the Eastern Mediterranean - A Transfer of Technological Knowledge?
by Christoph Kremer

11. Sacred Colours: Purple Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the Second Half of the 1st Millennium BC
by Cecilie Brøns

12. «A Lydian chiton with a purple fringe...»: The Gift of the Garment to the Hera of Samos and Hera of Sele
by Bianca Ferrara

13. Purple For the Masses? Shellfish Purple Dyed Textiles From the Quarry Workers’ Cemetery at Strozzacapponi (Perugia/Corciano), Italy
by Margarita Gleba, Ina Vanden Berghe and Luana Cenciaioli

14. Historical Outline and Chromatic Properties of Purpura Rubra Tarentina and Its Potential Identification With Purple Dye Extracted From Bolinus Brandaris
by Fabienne Meiers

15. "Purple Wars": Fishing Rights and Political Conflicts Concerning the Production of Marine Dyes in Hellenistic Greece
by Carmen Alfaro Giner and Francisco Javier Fernández Nieto

16. Purpurarii in the Western Mediterranean
by Benedict J. Lowe

17. Shell Purple-dye Production in the Mediterranean Basin
by David S. Reese