[Avodah] techelet

[Eli Turkel]

<<Not clear to me what the chidush is in this article. The item they found
is
not tzitzit. We already know that trunculus murex was used to produce dye,
based on archaeological evidence of dye factories with murex shells.

By the way, if you look up at the top of the sky, even at midday on a sunny
day, it is a relatively dark blue and not dissimilar to the colour of ptil
tekhelet tizitzit. Pale "sky blue" is more what you see looking straight
ahead, at the sky near the horizon.>>

The material that was found was a darker blue than that of ptil techelet.
This was much closer to black.

I will check with Dr. Zvi Koren for more details. I could not make the
lecture but
he said he would give (eventually) a private lecture

-- 
Eli Turkel
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