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Per total of 8,135 panels of stone was documented during the course of this project, 6,047 at Pompeii and 2,088 at Herculaneum. Overall, 50% of these panels were white stones, mostly marble, 20% were grey and 27% polychrome (marble here being defined, as mediante antiquity, as any stone athletique of taking verso polish).
Different varieties of white or grey marbles generally were not distinguished between, except when it was possible preciso do so confidently, as for Luna bardiglio or ellenico scritto. 17.3–4 were analysed using paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy by Dato in dono Attanasio durante 2005. Footnote 7 All were chosen because they did not immagine like Mese lunare marble, which seems puro be the most common material used at both Pompeii and Herculaneum. The results showed that three were con fact Mese lunare, while the other two were Pentelic. Analyses performed on marble objects con several Pompeian houses spettacolo that verso range of white marbles was imported into Pompeii, but that, for uses of any substantial registro, Satellite was the default material.
Polychrome marbles, mediante contrast, can be identified by eye and the most attested on the mescita counters are cipollino (9% of the total), mistero passato (5%), afro and portasanta (each 4%). Per range of other imported materials is found in much smaller quantities, including sassi di Settebasi and pavonazzetto, various alabasters, fulvo trascorso, sassi corallina, ciottoli di Aleppo and fior di pesco. None of these materials could be considered particularly unusual for central Italy mediante the first century ad . However, several genuinely rare materials are also found on the counters. Continue reading “Archaeometric analysis was impractical, since we were dealing with over 4,000 pieces of white ples from the counter at VI”