(Please read from the start)
It’s also clear that the production of the purple dye by the Phoenicians is very very old but it’s not admitted = it remains stuck in (((their))) throats and cannot come out. I’m sure that place in South Italy, dating back from 18th century B.C. was a Phoenician center = because the Phoenicians kept the formula secret and no one else managed to re-create that same purple coloring, until the Romans stole it many centuries later. So for a center of purple dye with the same coloring was found in South Italy it must be Phoenician because they were the only ones with the formula. The FACT the Phoenicians monopolized the formula pushes me to say that all the facilities around the Med Sea making this purple dye were Phoenicians despite it not being admitted by the Main Stream History. I’m talking way before the first millennium here, way before the Romans and the Greeks showed up.
To create a dye facility in a colony, you must create the colony first, build, have enough people in it to work on providing food and defend it. Since the dye was so prized, the city-state producing it must have had a strong military unit in order to defend it in case someone tried to rob the place. Of course, to establish these, it needs time. Establish the dye facility also needed time to start producing because time was needed to “grow/breed” the Murex shells in big quantities and then it was also very time consuming to extract the dye from the seashell. So this didn’t happen in a decade or 2 anons. To become a purple dye producer, it takes time. And it takes an even longer time to establish a colony and create enough man power to feed it and defend it.
All of these are indications that the production of purple dye in Southern Italy by the Phoenicians was older than 1800 B.C. This knowledge was brought by the new settlers from Phoenicia Motherland to the new colony, no matter where it is established. This means, the Phoenician Motherland must have mastered the dye extraction and production way for quite some time before establishing a new colony. This also indicates that a scouting process took place to find the needed spot with enough quantity of Murex to be able to produce the dye in big numbers. Scouting needs time and it results in finding many sites. So a selection process also took place once the scouting was over to select the most convenient spot to build a new colony producing the purple dye. This cannot be done in a flash = overnight. It takes time. This is why I say the purple dye extraction by the Phoenicians is much older and it probably dates back more since they established it first on the Eastern Coast of the Med Sea.
Please take a look at this: https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/kaunakes/
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Additional evidence of the importance of wool fabric comes from archaeology. An excavation of the tomb of a queen from Ur (c. 2600 B.C.E.) included fragments of bright red wool fabric thought to be from the queen’s garments. Evidence for costume in this region comes from depictions of humans on engraved seals, devotional, or votive statuettes of worshipers, a few wall paintings, and statues and relief carvings of military and political leaders.” (51-59).”
>> Do you recognize whom we are talking about here? This is the Sumerian queen Puabi whom we’ve already mentioned in page 54. If anons could read the whole article from the link, it would be great.
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