A quick search for Phoenician purple (apparently called Tyrian purple) brought u...

		boomboomsubban on Jan 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cerne Abbas giant is Hercules and was army meeting... A quick search for Phoenician purple (apparently called Tyrian purple) brought up this seventeenth century painting recounting a second century AD Heracles story that may have been influenced by the Phoenician god Melqart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules%27s_Dog_Discovers_Pur...