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Treasures from the Sea : Purple Dye and Sea Silk.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Landenius Enegren, Hedvig
Otros Autores: Meo, Francesco
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontcover; Title; Contents; 1. Introduction Hedvig Landenius Enegren and Francesco Meo; 2. Byssus and sea silk: a linguistic problem with consequences Felicitas Maeder; 3. Morphology, Properties and Microscopical Identification of Sea Silk Anne Sicken; 4. Tangled threads. Byssus and sea silk in the Bronze Age: an interdisciplinary approach Elena Soriga and Alfredo Carannante; 5. Finds of Pinna nobilis, Hexaplex trunculus and evidence for specialized textile production in Aetolian Chalkis Sanne Houby-Nielsen; 6. Taras and sea silk Francesco Meo.
  • 7. Dal bisso grezzo al filato di bisso/From raw sea silk to byssus thread Assuntina Pes and Giuseppina Pes8. Dyeing wool and sea silk with purple pigment from Hexaplex trunculus Inge Boesken Kanold; 9. Recent advances in the understanding of the chemistry of Tyrian purple production from Mediterranean molluscs Chris Cooksey; 10. Mari(ne) purple: western textile technology in Middle Bronze Age Syria Elena Soriga; 11. The spread of purple dyeing in the Eastern Mediterranean
  • a transfer of technological knowledge? Christoph Kremer.
  • 12. Sacred colours: purple textiles in Greek sanctuaries in the second half of the 1st millennium BC Cecilie Brøns13. "A Lydian chiton with a purple fringe ... ": The gift of the garment to the Hera of Samos and Hera of Sele Bianca Ferrara; 14. 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.
  • 15. Historical outline and chromatic properties of purpura rubra Tarentina and its potential identification with purple dye extracted from Bolinus brandaris Fabienne Meiers 20016. "Purple Wars": fishing rights and political conflicts concerning the production of marine dyes in Hellenistic Greece Carmen Alfaro Giner and Francisco Javier Fernández Nieto; 17. Purpurarii in the Western Mediterranean Benedict J. Lowe.