Porphyrites

Japanese: porphyrites
Porphyrites

…Purpura (the origin of the English word purple and the French word pourre) is a very expensive dye, so silk fabrics dyed with it were especially prized, and in ancient Rome it was used exclusively by the imperial family. Porphyrites, an Egyptian stone of this color, was used for portraits and sarcophagi of members of the imperial family, and the clothing of statues of Christ up until the 6th century was of this color. The parchment used for noble manuscripts up until the end of the Middle Ages was also dyed with this color (such as the Vienna Book of Genesis). …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "porphyrites" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そのうちプルプラ(英語のpurple,フランス語のpourpreなどの語源)は,その色の染料が高価なので,これで染めた絹布はとくに貴重視され,古代ローマ時代には皇室の専用品となった。皇室関係の肖像や石棺にはこの色をしたエジプト産の石材,ポルフュリテスporphyritesが用いられたし,6世紀ごろまでのキリスト像の衣はこの色をしている。また中世末期までの高貴な写本に用いられた羊皮紙も,この色で染められている(《ウィーン創世記》など)。…

※「porphyrites」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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