Tyrian purple

This box shows the color Tyrian purple.

Tyrian purple is a reddish dark purple color.

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Other names the color tyrian purple is known:

Fabrics dyed in the current era from different species of sea snail. The colors in this photograph may not represent them precisely.
A twentieth-century depiction of a Roman triumph celebrated by Julius Caesar. Caesar, riding in the chariot, wears the solid Tyrian purple toga picta. In the foreground, two Roman magistrates are identified by their toga praetexta, white with a stripe of Tyrian purple.
Two shells of Bolinus brandaris, the spiny dye-murex, a source of the dye
Byzantine Emperor Justinian I clad in Tyrian purple, 6th-century mosaic at Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
A Phoenician coin depicting the legend of the dog biting the sea snail
The chemical structure of 6,6′-dibromoindigo, the main component of Tyrian purple
Cuneiform tablet, dated 600–500 BC, with instructions for dyeing wool purple and blue. Ref.Template:British-Museum-db.
A set of Tzitzit, four tassels or "fringes" with tekhelet (purple-blue) threads produced from a Hexaplex trunculus based dye.

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