place
Assyria
Assyrian
also: Assyrian
The East, byword for purple dye and luxury goods; 'Assyrian ivory' is ivory stained with eastern purple.
Reading notes
- The Loves §2.5 Assyrian purple
Eastern purple dye, byword for costly color; it stains the Lydian woman's ivory red.
- Metamorphoses §15.491 the Assyrians
The eastern people who, Ovid says, name the phoenix.