1. Murex, tun, cowrie, cone, and turritella shells are all made by gastropods.

2. The coloring matter was evidently obtained from the Murex and Purpura mollusks, piles of emptied shells of the Murex trunculus having been found along the shore of Tyre and in the vicinity of Sidon.

3. The combination of pigments from various murex sea snails could produce shades and colors ranging from royal purple to blue to crimson red.

4. Any of various marine gastropods of the genus Murex common in tropical seas and having rough, spiny shells, especially M. trunculus, the source of Tyrian purple.

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6. Two baetylic stones (the so-called 'Ambrosial rocks'), each standing on a base, between them Holy Oil-tree in ex: dog of Herakles, walking r., finding Murex Shell Ref.: SNG Rughetti 2344; BMC Phoenicia, pl