A Review on the Archaeological Chemistry of Shellfish Purple

Mythic dyes or mythic colour? New insight into the use of purple dyes on codices

(2019) Maurizio Aceto et al.   SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY

Archaeometry’s Role in Cultural Heritage Sustainability and Development

(2019) Ioannis Liritzis et al.   Sustainability

The identification of lac as a pigment in ancient Greek polychromy - The case of a Hellenistic oinochoe from Canosa di Puglia

(2018) Joanne Dyer et al.   DYES AND PIGMENTS

Illuminating the Carolingian era: new discoveries as a result of scientific analyses

(2018) Charlotte Denoël et al.   Heritage Science

Identification of dyes in Egyptian textiles of the first millennium ad from the collection Fill-Trevisiol

(2018) Ioannis Karapanagiotis et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

An ‘imperial radiation’: Experimental and theoretical investigations of the photo-induced luminescence properties of 6,6′-dibromoindigo (Tyrian purple)

(2018) Giovanni Verri et al.   DYES AND PIGMENTS

Tyrian purple in archaeological textiles: DMF extraction and recrystallization for the Raman identification of precursors and derivatives

(2017) Brenda Doherty et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Analytical investigations on the Coronation Gospels manuscript

(2017) Maurizio Aceto et al.   SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY

The effect of light and dye composition on the color of dyeings with indigo, 6-bromoindigo, and 6,6′-dibromoindigo, components of Tyrian purple

(2017) Keith Ramig et al.   STRUCTURAL CHEMISTRY

Volatile and bioactive compounds in opercula from Muricidae molluscs supports their use in ceremonial incense and traditional medicines

(2017) Bijayalakshmi Devi Nongmaithem et al.   Scientific Reports

Towards a semiquantitative non invasive characterisation of Tyrian purple dye composition: Convergence of UV–Visible reflectance spectroscopy and fast-high temperature-high performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array detection

(2016) Catia Clementi et al.   ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA

Determination of Tyrian purple by high performance liquid chromatography with diode array detection

(2016) Athina Vasileiadou et al.   JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A

First evidence of purple pigment production and dyeing in southern Arabia (Sumhuram, Sultanate of Oman) revealed by mass spectrometric and chromatographic techniques

(2016) Erika Ribechini et al.   JOURNAL OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

Organic dyes in illuminated manuscripts: a unique cultural and historic record

(2016) Maria João Melo et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

The “Coptic” textiles of the “Museo Egizio” in Torino (Italy): a focus on dyes through a multi-technique approach

(2016) Monica Gulmini et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Early pre-Hispanic use of indigo blue in Peru

(2016) J. C. Splitstoser et al.   Science Advances

Multi-species collapses at the warm edge of a warming sea

(2016) Gil Rilov   Scientific Reports

Identification of Pigments in Hellenistic and Roman Funeral Figurines

(2015) A. Fostiridou et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Armenian cochineal (Porphyrophora hamelii) and purpurin-rich madder in ancient polychromy

(2015) Dimitrios Mantzouris et al.   COLORATION TECHNOLOGY

The nature of thermochromic effects in dyeings with indigo, 6-bromoindigo, and 6,6′-dibromoindigo, components of Tyrian purple

(2015) Keith Ramig et al.   DYES AND PIGMENTS

Are the Traditional Medical Uses of Muricidae Molluscs Substantiated by Their Pharmacological Properties and Bioactive Compounds?

(2015) Kirsten Benkendorff et al.   Marine Drugs

FTIR imaging and HPLC reveal ancient painting and dyeing techniques of molluskan purple

(2015) Zoi Eirini Papliaka et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Analytical Chemistry in Archaeological Research

(2014) Benjamin T. Nigra et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Identification of indirubin and monobromoindirubins in Murex brandaris

(2014) Dimitrios Mantzouris et al.   DYES AND PIGMENTS

The purple Codex Rossanensis: spectroscopic characterisation and first evidence of the use of the elderberry lake in a sixth century manuscript

(2014) Marina Bicchieri   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

An improved HPLC method coupled to PCA for the identification of Tyrian purple in archaeological and historical samples

(2013) Ioannis Karapanagiotis et al.   MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Non-invasive investigation on a VI century purple codex from Brescia, Italy

(2013) Maurizio Aceto et al.   SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY

Tyrian purple: the first four thousand years

(2013) Chris Cooksey   SCIENCE PROGRESS

Mass spectrometric identification of new minor indigoids in shellfish purple dye from Hexaplex trunculus

(2012) Izabella Surowiec et al.   DYES AND PIGMENTS

Identification of purple dye from molluscs on an excavated textile by non-destructive analytical techniques

(2012) Christina Margariti et al.   DYES AND PIGMENTS

First analytical evidences of precious colourants on Mediterranean illuminated manuscripts

(2012) M. Aceto et al.   SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY

Studying pigments on painted plaster in Minoan, Roman and Early Byzantine Crete. A multi-analytical technique approach

(2011) Polly Westlake et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

First chemical evidence of royal purple as a material used for funeral treatment discovered in a Gallo–Roman burial (Naintré, France, third century AD)

(2011) Thibaut Devièse et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

An investigation of paint from a mural in the church of Sainte Madeleine, Manas, France

(2011) Raymond E. March et al.   JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY

A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2011) C. S. Henshilwood et al.   SCIENCE

Therapeutic properties and uses of marine invertebrates in the ancient Greek world and early Byzantium

(2010) Eleni Voultsiadou   JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY

Preparation of Tyrian Purple (6,6′-Dibromoindigo): Past and Present

(2010) Joel L. Wolk et al.   MOLECULES

Analytical Methods for the Characterization of Organic Dyes in Artworks and in Historical Textiles

(2009) I. Degano et al.   APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY REVIEWS

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) on silver colloids for the identification of ancient textile dyes: Tyrian purple and madder

(2009) Silvia Bruni et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Micro-Raman spectroscopy (MRS) and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) on organic colourants in archaeological pigments

(2008) Elsa Van Elslande et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY