Ostia / Sample / Marble

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.2390
Object Name: Sample
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Inorganic specimens
Materials: Marble
Length: 1.3
Width: 12.5
Height: 13.5
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Thin slab with one edge worked; confused and mottled mixture of shades of dull red, purple and gray with white spots; stained with yellow; texture slightly fractured with scattered transparent crystalline pebbled. Surface rather scratched. Rare markings such as are seen in S. Peter’s
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Verbatim Site: Ostia
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Image Size: 2272 x 1704
File Size: 247 KB
Record: 0000.00.2390
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2390/0000_00_2390p01.tif

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Full citation: "Ostia; Sample; Marble". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2390/0000_00_2390p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 02, 2023.