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The dog bit a sea snail, and the snail's blood dyed the dog's mouth Tyrian purple. Seeing this, the nymph demanded a gown of the same color, and the result was the origin of purple dye. [2] [3] [4] (Some ancient sources attribute the myth to Melqart, a Tyrian deity identified with Heracles.)
Kythira had a Phoenician colony in the early archaic age; the sea-snail which produces Tyrian purple is native to the island. [citation needed] Xenophon refers to a Phoenician Bay in Kythira (Hellenica 4.8.7, probably Avlemonas Bay on the eastern side of the island). The archaic Greek city of Kythira was at Scandea on Avlemonas; its ruins have ...