Image: 11th century Byzantine griffins

Description: SION (SWITZERLAND) / ÉGLISE DE VALÉRE / ABEGG-STIFTUNG, RIGGISBERG This fragment from an 11th-century Byzantine robe shows griffins embroidered on a delicate silk woven of murex-dyed threads. It was in the eastern Roman empire of Byzantium that the symbolic power of murex purple reached its apogee.
Title: 11th century Byzantine griffins
Credit: http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200604/millennia.of.murex.htm
Author: Unknown Byzantine weaver
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