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English: SION (SWITZERLAND) / ÉGLISE DE VALÉRE / ABEGG-STIFTUNG, RIGGISBERG This fragment from an 11th-century Byzantine robe shows griffins embroidered on a delicate silk woven of murex-dyed threads. It was in the eastern Roman empire of Byzantium that the symbolic power of murex purple reached its apogee.
Date Made in 11th century. Published in Saudi Aramco World, Volume 57, Number 4 July/August 2006
Source http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200604/millennia.of.murex.htm
Author Unknown Byzantine weaver
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