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Quote from: Nick Harbud on Today at 02:26:00 PM...unless one considers that traditionally leper colonies have been established on remote islands to inhibit spread of the disease amongst the healthy population.

 

While I confess I've heard the IoW described as a 50's theme park, no-one has mentioned it being a leper colony.

Hmmmm. Maybe.  Though given all five also symbolise power or prosperity, I can think of less esoteric reasons for kings fond of boasting of their military prowess and promotion of agriculture to pick them...

"Sargon" can be represented by five, distinct symbols as well as by three of those same five, distinct symbols. Off to contemplate that possibility...

https://greekreporter.com/2024/05/03/illyrians/

Another crowd pleaser

https://phys-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/phys.org/news/2024-05-assyriologist-archaeological-mystery-bc.amp?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17148385406038&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fphys.org%2Fnews%2F2024-05-assyriologist-archaeological-mystery-bc.html

Beyond my Ken but hopefully of interest

 

Quote from: Imperial Dave on Today at 12:54:27 PMRats with bushy tails

You say that as if it's a bad thing...

...unless one considers that traditionally leper colonies have been established on remote islands to inhibit spread of the disease amongst the healthy population.

 

 

Quote from: Ian61 on Today at 08:35:53 AM

Quote from: Imperial Dave on Today at 06:31:57 AM

Quote from: DBS on May 03, 2024, 10:16:40 PMAlso interesting because the purple actually looks... purple.  I simply mean that sometimes there are suggestions that Tyrian purple may not have always been a shade that we would now automatically class as purple.

I did think that myself!

I think you are both right in that we know the shade is dependant on the species and precise details of manufacture. I watched a video some time ago about a chap (I am sure it was Tunisia) who had heard about this in school as 'local history' and decided to try it for himself. He got some deep colours which he used to dye some wool but not the wonderful purple we are looking at on that BBC article - that is very purple'. The Wikipedia article on Tyrian purple shows other examples from different species.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple#/media/File:Purple_Purpur_(retouched).jpg

I can confirm Ian's recollections of the Tunisian chap extracting purple from Murex. The aspect that I remember most was that the man, his workspace and everything about and around him was indelibly stained 'purple'. Definitely a job for the enslaved workforce in antiquity.

Adrian.

Quote from: DBS on Today at 01:00:29 PMJurassic Park, aka Isle of Wight?  Lots of the little blighters there. 

Yet the islanders do not suffer from leprosy epidemics, as far as I know.