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Purple

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A dye-range once costly in the Mediterranean. Royal dress and liturgical cloth use purple without sharing one pigment theology.

Roman religion

  • Purple appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats purple among dyed and painted purples of color speech. A named purple hue in that encyclopedia, not Tyrian purple as the murex dye already walked and not a royal-symbol dump alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Purple is historically related to Ochre.

    In Heather's Treatise on Mathematical Instruments, Purple and Ochre are named as companions in the same handbook speech.

    from J. F. Heather · Treatise on Mathematical Instruments, 1849 (and later PD editions)

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  • Purple is historically related to Oil.

    In Brewster's A Treatise on Optics, Purple and Oil are named as companions in the same handbook speech.

    from David Brewster · A Treatise on Optics, 1831 (and later PD editions)

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  • Purple is historically related to Folium.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, of the kinds and tempering of folium, one kind is purple, tempered from ashes for painting robes — purple is one temper of that folium.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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  • Purple is historically related to Linen.

    In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the high priest’s ephod is of gold and of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen curiously wrought and put over the robe — purple is wrought into that linen ephod.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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  • Purple is historically related to Blue.

    In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the high priest’s ephod is of gold and of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen curiously wrought — purple is wrought with that blue.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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  • Purple is historically related to Scarlet.

    In Watson Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the high-priest ephod is of gold and of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen curiously wrought - purple is woven with that scarlet.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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  • Purple is historically related to Milk.

    In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, a fine purple is made by treating bilberry like the violet chalk preparation and mixing it with milk.

    from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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  • Vinegar is historically related to Purple.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, a purple colour is made from the stone sil burnt and extinguished in vinegar while it is glowing — vinegar quenches that purple pigment.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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  • Chalk is historically related to Purple.

    In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, purple colours are manufactured by dyeing chalk with madder root and with hysginum — chalk is dyed into that purple.

    from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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  • Honey is historically related to Purple.

    In Vitruvius, purple taken from marine shellfish (ostrum) soon dries up on account of its saltness unless honey is poured over it — honey is poured over that purple.

    from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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  • Breastplate is historically related to Purple.

    In Watson Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the high-priest breastplate is wrought with gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen - purple is worked into that breastplate.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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  • Madder is historically related to Purple.

    In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, purple colours are also manufactured by dyeing chalk with madder root and with hysginum when the true shellfish purple is unavailable.

    from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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