The Study of Marble and Other Stones Used in Antiquity

Preface

Part I. Quarries and quarrying technology

The ancient quarries on Mount Pentelikon

E.M. Korres

Quarrying of dimensional stones in the Hellenistic period at Kefalos bay on the Island of Kos

E. Chiotis and G. Papadimitriou

Some problems related to the use of Luna marble in Rome and western provinces during the 1st century A.D.

P. Pensabene

Dragon-houses of Southern Euboea: military guard-places of the quarries

Tony Kozelj and Manuela Wurch-Kozelj

Who owned the marble quarries on Thasos during the Imperial period?

Jean-Yves Marc

Roman quarries of Apse-Sarcophagi in Thasos of the second and third centuries

Manuela Wurch-Kozelj and Tony Kozelj

Part II. Trade and archaeological use of stone

Lithic implements of Gor, NW Hungary: evidence of cast production

Katalin Takacs-Biró

Marbles and decorative stones used in French medieval monuments

Annie Blanc

The "Hekatompedon Inscription" and the marble of its metopes

Patricia A. Butz

The exploration of dolomitic sculptural marble from Thasos: evidence from Mediterranean and other collections

John Herrman and Richard Newman

Unfinished sculpture and its workshops on Delos in the Hellenistic period

Philippe Jockey

The traditional archaeological characterisation of marble sculpture and the results of modern scientific techniques

G. Kokkorou-Alevras, V. Mandi, A.P. Grimanis and Y. Maniatis

Further research on the Boston three-sided relief

Richard Newman and John Herrman

A tale of two islands

Susan Walker

Part III. Provenance studies of marble

The stable isotope analysis of marble from Proconnesus

N. Asgari and Keith Matthews

The cathodomicrofacies of Macael white marbles (Almeria, Spain)

Vincent Barbin, Ugo Zezza and Eduardo Sebastian Pardo

A cathodoluminescence spectrometer built for an SEM JSM840A: first results on minerals and white marbles

Philippe Blanc

A multivariate provenance determination of white marbles using ICPAES and stable isotope analysis

P.F.B. Jongste, J.B. Jansen, L. Moens and P. DePaepe

Mineralogical, petrographical and geochemical characterization of white marbles from Hispania

P. Lapuente

Petrographic and geochemical features of Carystian marble, "Cipollino verde" from the ancient quarries of Euboea (Greece)

L. Lazzarini, U. Masi and P. Tucci

Establishing the provenance of marble using statistical combinations of stable isotope and neutron activation analysis data

K.J. Matthews, M.N. Leese, M.J. Hughes, N. Herz and S.G.E. Bowman

Rare-earth element patterns of white marble samples from ancient quarries in Carrara (Italy)

Sandra Meloni, Massimo Oddone and Ugo Zezza

Stable carbon and oxygen isotope sourcing of marble sculptures in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Sackler Museum, Harvard

Nikolaas van der Merwe, John Herrman, Richard Newman, Robert Tykot, Colette Czapski and Norman Herz

Analytical methods useful in authenticating ancient marble sculptures

L. Moens and K. Ulens

The contribution of trace elements to the determination of marble provenance

V. Mandi, A. Vassiliou, Y. Maniatis and A.P. Grimanis

Part IV. Provenance studies of other stones

Romanesque architectural evidences of gypsum-building stones in Pavia province (Lombardy, Italy)

Giovanni Braga and Ugo Zezza

Topographical and petrological survey of Roman quarries in the Eastern Desert of Egypt

V. Max Brown and James A Harrell

"Lapis Niger" and other black limestones used in antiquity

M. Fornaseri, L. Lazzarini, P. Pensabene, M. Preite Martinez and B. Turi

Part V. Stone from the New World

Provenance determination of early American marbles

Kevin Dooley and Norman Herz

Use of trace fossils in determing provenance of dimension stone: an example from Ohio

Joseph I. Hannibal

New world marble vessels from Mesoamerica and Honduras

Deidre M. Thompson

Part VI. Conservation problems

Weathering of dolomitic marble and the role of oxalates

David Heller and Norman Herz

The brown waterproofing plaster of the ancient cisterns in Laurion and its weathering and degradation

G. Papadimitriou and J. Cordatos

Alteration of granitic stones of "Anta do Zambujeiro" (Alentejo, Portuagal)

M.I. Prudencio, M.O. Figuereiro, J.C. Waerenborgh, L.C.J. Pereira, M.A. Gouveia, T.P. Silva, I. Morgado, I.R. Costa and J.D. Rodrigues

Oriented inversion of gypsum on the surface of ancient monuments back into calcium carbonate

T. Skoulikidis, E. Georgopoulou and P. Adamopoulou

Lithofacies determination, origin, decay and conservation of the building stones in the monuments of the ancient Olympia area

M. Varti-Matarangas, N. Beloyannis, V. Mitsaki-Hafner, J. Katsikis and E. Pantelias