During the late Byzantine era, which supply collapse happened when porphyry outcrops failed?

💡 Explanation

When porphyry outcrops failed, imperial purple dye concentrations declined because the *extraction constraint* limited access to raw material; therefore A is correct, rather than B/C/D which relied on separate technologies.

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