Tunisian Purple

Description:

Description: English: Hexaplex trunculus (Murex trunculus) and the Phoenician Purple Dye extract (Phoenician Purple is NOT the same as Tyrian purple). The snails used to produce this pigment have been cought near the coast of Carthage in Tunisia, the city was an important center of purple dye manufacture along with other Punic colonies in Tunisia such as Meninx, Zouchis and Kerkouane. Русский: Экстракт античного пурпура из Туниса, где его когда-то выделывали карфагеняне. Date: 26 October 2010. Source: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150297001935094&set=o.6084852021&type=1&theater. Author: Carthaginian Wanderer. Permission(Reusing this file): The publisher passed it to public domain with condition to cite it: "I pass this image of my authorship into a public domain".