Editing Tel Dor (section)

===Purple dye production ===
As of 2001, excavations at the site have yielded an apparatus for the production of a purple dye solution, dating to the Persian and Hellenistic periods, wherein there was still a thick layer of [[quicklime]] (calcium oxide) which served, according to scholars, in helping to separate the dye from the mollusks after they had been broken and removed from their shells.<ref>{{cite book |author-last1=Spanier |author-first1=Yossi |title=Limekilns in the Land of Israel (כבשני סיד בארץ-ישראל) |author-last2=Sasson |author-first2=Avi |date=2001 |publisher=[[Land of Israel Museum]] |location=Ariel: Jerusalem |page=8 (Preface) |language=he |oclc=48108956 |author-link2=Avi Sasson}}</ref> These mollusks were primarily imported into the region from other places along the Mediterranean coast, and consisted of species [[Phorcus turbinatus]], [[Patella caerulea]], [[Stramonita haemastoma]], [[Hexaplex trunculus]], among other species.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gilboa|first1=Ayelet |last2=Sharon |first2=Ilan |last3=Zorn  |first3=Jeffrey R. |last4=Matskevich |first4=Sveta |title=Excavations at Dor, Final Report: Volume IIB Area G, The Late Bronze and Iron Ages: Pottery, Artifacts, Ecofacts and other Studies |journal=Qedem Reports |publisher=Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem|volume=11|year=2018|pages=III–340 |jstor=26493565|language=en }}</ref>