Rome / Architectural facing fragment / Marble / Plaster or mortar

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.2188
Object Name: Architectural facing fragment
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Inorganic specimens
Materials: Marble; Plaster or mortar
Length: 1.0-6.3;
Width: 15.5;
Height: 25.0;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;2258.2g
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Pink straw yellows flushed with pink; spotted sparsely with blue gray and veined extensively with maroon; is not Brecciato or Venato. Edges chipped; some concrete clinging to back.
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Verbatim Site: Rome
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis
Exhibition Curator: Gazda, Elaine
Exhibition Year: 2016
Publication Title: Reflections, the Image of Man
Publication Year: 1965
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.2188
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2188/dsc_6381.jpg

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Full citation: "Rome; Architectural facing fragment; Marble; Plaster or mortar." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2188/dsc_6381.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.