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Germany / Belgium: Heracles' dog discovers the Purple Tyrian dye-producing properties of the murex snail...

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Germany / Belgium: Heracles' dog discovers the Purple Tyrian dye-producing properties of the murex snail on the shore of the Levant. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
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The Roman mythographer Julius Pollux, writing in the 2nd century BCE, asserts (Onomasticon I, 45-49) that Purple Tyrian dye was first discovered by Heracles, or rather, by his dog, whose mouth was stained purple from chewing on snails along the coast of the Levant.

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Germany / Europe / artist / art / Belgium / arts / asia / historical images / art / tyrian purple / historical / flemish / imperial purple / asian / royal purple / lebanon / heracles / phoenician / phoenicia / historical pictures / mediterranean / paintings / painting / history / murex / muriciae / rubens / levant

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