{
  "name": "Tyrian purple in the record: ancient texts, a dye analysis and an edict",
  "desc": "One claim per row from the sources on this page, with author, work, passage, edition read, date, a year range (negative years are BCE), whether that range is approximate, and the kind of evidence.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Tailor, Weaver, Jeweler, Dyer",
  "url": "https://tailorweaverjewelerdyer.com/color/tyrian-purple/",
  "from": [
    "Aristotle, History of Animals, Book V ch. XIII (Cresswell translation)",
    "Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book 9 ch. 60–63 (Bostock and Riley 1855; Latin sections from Mayhoff's text)",
    "Sukenik et al. 2021 (CC BY 4.0)",
    "Kent 1920, pp. 35 and 45–47",
    "Author dates from the Project Gutenberg catalog"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Tailor, Weaver, Jeweler, Dyer from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Aristotle, History of Animals, Book V, translated by Richard Cresswell (1862), public domain, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59058",
    "Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book 9, translated by John Bostock and H. T. Riley (1855), public domain, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60230; Latin text of Karl Mayhoff (Teubner, 1875–1906), public domain, https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/9*.html",
    "Sukenik, Iluz, Amar, Varvak, Shamir and Ben-Yosef, Early evidence of royal purple dyed textile from Timna Valley (Israel), PLOS ONE 16(1): e0245897, 2021, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245897",
    "Roland G. Kent, The Edict of Diocletian Fixing Maximum Prices, University of Pennsylvania Law Review 69 (1920): 35–47, public domain, https://repository.law.upenn.edu/Documents/Detail/the-edict-of-diocletian-fixing-maximum-prices/167238"
  ]
}