Exploitation et commercialisation de la pourpre dans l'Empire romain

• Main Author: Macheboeuf, Christine (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Pessac Ausonius éditions 2022
• Series: DAN@ 4
• Subjects: Landscape archaeology; History: earliest times to present day; archaeology; purple; shells; murex; dye; craftsmen; purpurarii; experimental archaeology; trade; symbol; Empire romain; Roman Empire; Antiquity; Antiquité; Production; recipe; Pliny of Ancia; coastal production workshop; reconstitution; Ars purpuraria; ostrum; fermentation; vat; honey; salt; salting; rocuratores bafiorum; marketing; wool; silk; linen; purpurissum; taberna purpuraria; officina; Purpurarius; mercator; negociator; πορφυροπώλης; retail sale; edict of the Maximum; imperial monopoly; production
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Sea Purple dye, extracted from the shells usually called Bolinus brandaris, Hexaplex trunculus and Purpura haemastoma was exploited from the Bronze Age till the middle of the XVth century AD. Yet, its production was indeniably the most intensive from the second to the fifth century AD. Indeed, the R...