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English: Hexaplex trunculus (Murex trunculus) and the Phoenician Purple Dye extract (Phoenician Purple is NOT the same as Tyrian purple). The snails used to produce this pigment have been cought near the coast of Carthage in Tunisia, the city was an important center of purple dye manufacture along with other Punic colonies in Tunisia such as Meninx, Zouchis and Kerkouane.
Русский: Экстракт античного пурпура из Туниса, где его когда-то выделывали карфагеняне.
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Source http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150297001935094&set=o.6084852021&type=1&theater
Author Carthaginian Wanderer
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The publisher passed it to public domain with condition to cite it: "I pass this image of my authorship into a public domain"

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This file, which was originally posted to http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150297001935094&set=o.6084852021&type=1&theater, was reviewed on 3 August 2015 by reviewer GRuban, who confirmed that it was available there under the stated license on that date.

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26 October 2010

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current17:27, 10 May 2011Thumbnail for version as of 17:27, 10 May 2011160 × 120 (7 KB)Lkitrossky{{Information |Description ={{en|1= Hexaplex trunculus (Murex trunculus) and the Tyrian purple (Phoenician Purple) Dye extract.}} {{ru|1=Экстракт античного пурпура из Туниса, где его когда-то выделыв�
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