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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.