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The Color Purple. In Ancient Israel Author: Gary Byers MA Created: 13 May 2021
In January 2021, the Central Timna Valley (CTV) Project published in the online journal
PLOS ONE the results of their excavation of an ancient copper mining and smelting operation in southern Israel, along with an analysis of three specific items found in the excavation. Their report offered to the world – because this respected peer-reviewed research journal is available online to everyone – a special look into the world of the ancient Near East and the Bible.
Timna Copper Purple
Three dyed textile fragments were excavated at a site named “Slave’s Hill” by archaeologists in the 1930s. It is within a copper mining and smelting production district in the Timna Valley of southern Israel – once the territory of the ancient kingdom of Edom. In a shallow depression just above bedrock within a mixed locus of reddish sediments and crushed sandstone, wool yarn
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“King Solomon made for himself the carriage; he made it of wood from Lebanon. Its posts he made of silver, its base of gold. Its seat was upholstered with purple, its interior inlaid with love.”
The passage from the biblical texts Song of Songs depicts the historic King Solomon, ruler of ancient Israel 3,000 years ago. But historians have often argued about passages like these, especially the mention of the colour purple.
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