Following up on previous post about Epstein's temple and its Phoenician symbols.
PURPLE PEOPLE
The Purple People
The purple dye manufactured and used in Tyre for the robes of Mesopotamian royalty gave Phoenicia the name by which we know it today (from the Greek Phoinikes for Tyrian Purple) and also accounts for the Phoenicians being known as 'purple people’ by the Greeks (as the Greek historian Herodotus tells us) because the dye would stain the skin of the workers.
https:// www.ancient.eu/amp/1-183/