Roman Marble Quarries
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Um öffentliche und private Bauwerke auf luxuriöseste Art mit Naturstein auszustatten, importierten die Römer auch in die fernen nordwestlichen Provinzen Niedergermanien und Gallia Belgica große Mengen verschiedener Gesteine aus dem... more
"This book includes 88 contributions (oral and posters) that were presented during the IX International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA), held in Tarragona between 8 and... more
Complete technical report by Rachel Sabino with contributions from Lorenzo Lazzarini follows the comprehensive curatorial essay by Katharine A. Raff.
This contribution reports the results of the archaeometric study of 51 marble sculptures and decorative elements from the capital of Roman Lusitania, Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain). These artefacts found on display at the Spanish... more
Recent investigations in the North-East Necropolis and in the st Philip church at Hierapolis brought to light numerous fragments of marble sarcophagi. The paper presents the results of the archaeological examinations carried out on these... more
The discovery near Göktepe (Muğla province, Western Turkey) of an ancient quarrying site of white marbles and black stones has recently been reported by some authors. Assigning the provenance of stone from ancient ar-tifacts to Göktepe is... more
Various red, black and grey ‘Belgian marbles’ (coloured dense fossiliferous Palaeozoic limestones suit- able for polishing — ‘calcaires marbriers’) decorated private and public buildings as well as sanctuaries within and beyond the... more
Samples of marble from the Magara Deresi quarries near Sardis and from Lydian, Hellenistic, and Ro- man buildings from the site were analyzed using minero-petrographic and isotopic analysis. The sam- ples from the quarries provide the... more
This paper is a brief overview to the stones from the quarries of the northern part of the conventus Tarraconensis, with especial emphasis on those employed for ornamental purposes, but also taking into account those with less valued but... more
Review of Fabio Barry Painting in Stone, Yale University Press. Literary Review Dec 2020
Symbolism of stone.
Symbolism of stone.
La trachite euganea, una roccia vulcanica estratta dai Colli Euganei, è una delle risorse lapidee cavate sin dall’età antica nell’attuale comprensorio veneto. Le peculiari proprietà meccaniche contribuirono a una larga diffusione della... more
The main theme of this article is the transport of large monoliths – such as 50 or 60 Roman foot-tall columns from the quarries of Egypt’s Eastern Desert or obelisks and columns from Aswan – to Rome. We examine the role of Alexandria as a... more
Am Anfang des 2. Jhs. n. Chr. wurde die niedergermanische Siedlung nahe dem heutigen Xanten durch den Kaiser Trajan zur Colonia Ulpia Traiana (CUT) erhoben. Im Laufe der Monumentalisierung während des 2. Jhs. n. Chr. und in der ersten... more
This paper deals with ornamental rocks used for wall and floor incrustations in various public buildings in the Roman Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xanten, Germany). The origin of the stones, their use in the public buildings and their transport... more
The Marble Stoa at Hierapolis was a representative marble portico, which was funded by a local elite family in the middle of the 1st century AD. The aim of this paper is to assess the socio-economic dimensions of this building project by... more
In recent years I have often returned to the quarries of Luni and to the distribution and marketing systems of the quarry blocks and of the marble artifacts produced in the quarry. My works on architecture and architectural decoration... more
The basic elements of the historical, cultural and geopolitical structure of a region are closely related with the geographical position of that region. Geography is the destiny of a country and it determines the geopolitical power of a... more
Les voies romaines du territoire de Simitthus d'après les données épigraphiques, archéologiques et topographiques
The Marzamemi II wreck, discovered around the middle of the XX century, represents a pivotal case in the studies of Late Antique art and archaeology. Four of the twenty-seven Corinthian capitals support five masons’ marks, which can be... more
Pottery and marble production of Teos and their distribution
abstraCt - the possible discriminating factor in dealing with the marble areas in south-western anatolia could be the destination and quantity of the extracted marbles. to reconstruct the history of a city, territory or region, it is... more
This paper presents a model for explaining the considerable extension of imperial estates in the Upper Tembris valley and in other nearby phrygian regions during the 2nd century AD and later.
Los lavabos, pilas o tazas de fuente circulares son elementos funcionales y decorativos bastante comunes en el mundo romano donde recibían el nombre de labra. Dentro de esta categoría se han incluido a menudo también las tazas... more
When the imperial marbles were directed to the public monuments of Rome, the costs incurred by the state were related to transport and to installation on the buildings, but not to marble as a material. However, the contracts system with... more
Roman funerary sculptures and tomb inscriptions, southern Noricum.
This paper takes an energetics-based approach in reexamining the cargo of the famous Marzamemi 2 shipwreck as evidence for the maritime transport of architectural stone and the logistics of religious building projects during Late... more