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Cipollino marble

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27: 114:. The quarries yielding it became imperial property, and cipollino marble became common throughout Rome during the imperial period. It was principally used for column shafts, including large and mainly smooth ones, such as the columns of the 166: 157:
A geochemical isotope study focused on distinguishing between 'anasol' and 'anasol type' Spanish and Portuguese marbles and 'green cipollino' Greek and Italian marbles (Alpi Apuane) is to be found in AA.VV.
163: 228: 222: 183: 190: 84:. A marble similar in appearance to cipollino marble was mined in the Iberian peninsula at the Anasol mines, and on the 126:
at Tivoli, where its colour was used to imitate the colour of crocodile skin. It continued to be mined and used by the
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in the Forum in Rome. It was also used for sculpture, such as that of a crocodile in the Canopus at the
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Article on cipollino marble at the Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Accademia dei Fisiocritici di Siena
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First used in ancient Greece, it was exported to Rome from the 1st century BC onwards; in his
31: 8: 187: 76:, a crystalline marble with crystals between 0.2 and 0.6 mm, with coloured veins of 53:"). It was quarried in several locations on the south-west coast of the Greek island of 26: 68:
It has a white-green base, with thick wavy green bands, constrained by thin bands of
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used by the ancient Greeks and Romans, whose Latin term for it was
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within GABEC (Gruppo georisorse, ambiente e beni culturali).
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Roman Quarries of Iberian Peninsula: Anasol and Anasol-Type
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Chipolin

Basilica of Maxentius
marble
Karystos
Euboea
Styra
Karystos
mica
metamorphic rock
epidote
chlorite
Alpi Apuane
Natural History
eques
Claudius Mamurra
Julius Caesar
Gallic Wars
pronaos
temple of Antoninus and Faustina
Villa Adriana
Byzantine Empire
List of types of marble
PDF
Archived
Wayback Machine
UniversitĂ  di Roma "La Sapienza"
PDF
Archived
Wayback Machine

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