Porfirogennetos: Revizyonlar arasındaki fark

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== Background ==

[[Imperial purple]] was a luxury dye obtained from sea snails, used to colour cloth. Its production was extremely expensive, so the dye was used as a status symbol by the [[Romans]] e.g. a purple stripe on the [[toga]]s of [[roman magistrate|magistrate]]s. By the Byzantine period the colour had become associated with the emperors, and [[sumptuary laws]] restricted its use by anyone except the imperial household. Purple was thus seen as an imperial colour.

 

 

The most distinctive condition was that the child be born in the "Πορφύρα" (''Porphýra'', the Purple or [[Porphyry (geology)|Porphyry]] Chamber, a free-standing [[pavilion]] of the [[Great Palace of Constantinople]]): no child born anywhere else could legitimately be called ''Porphyrogénnētos''. As the ''Porphyrogennētē'' [[Anna Komnena]] described it, the room rested on one of the Palace's many terraces, overlooking the [[Sea of Marmora]] and the [[Bosphorus Strait]], "where the stone oxen and the lions stand" (i.e. the [[Boukoleon Palace]]), and was in the form of a perfect square from floor to ceiling, with the latter ending in a [[pyramid]]. Its walls, floor and ceiling were completely veneered with imperial porphyry, which was "generally of a purple colour throughout, but with white spots like sand sprinkled over it."<ref>{{Citation |first=Anna |last=Comnena |title=The Alexiad |location=London |publisher=Penguin |year=2003 |pages=196, 219 |isbn=0-14-044958-2 }}.</ref>