More than just a color: Archaeological, analytical, and procedural aspects of Late Bronze Age purple-dye production at Cape Kolonna, Aegina (IMAGE)

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More than just a color: Archaeological, analytical, and procedural aspects of Late Bronze Age purple-dye production at Cape Kolonna, Aegina

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Aegina Kolonna: view of the site from the Northeast (Aegina Kolonna excavation, Department of Classics, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg). Small pictures from the left: drawing of a purple snail of the 16th c. (in S. Münster, Cosmographia, 1544), Hexaplex trunculus from Late Bronze Age Aegina Kolonna (photo by G. Forstenpointner), purple pigment sample from Aegina Kolonna (photo by L. Berger).

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Aegina Kolonna excavation, Department of Classics, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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