Arentine / Architectural facing fragment / Marble

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.2552
Object Name: Architectural facing fragment
Lot: Jones, Elisha
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Inorganic specimens
Materials: Marble
Length: 1.5
Width: 8.5
Height: 8.8
Weight: 260.7g
Pierced: 161
Inscribed: 161
Full Artifact Description: One edge and both surfaces polished. One side dull creamy yellow, minutely spotted with faint purple-brown and one thick vein of white mottled with red-brown. Other side is creamy pink with white veins, yellow stains and many fine net-like purple-red veins.
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Verbatim Site: Arentine
Production Site: 140
Countermark: 161
Exhibition Title: Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis
Exhibition Curator: Gazda, Elaine
Exhibition Year: 2016
Type Category: 30

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.2552
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2552/dsc_6365.jpg

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Full citation: "Arentine; Architectural facing fragment; Marble." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2552/dsc_6365.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 03, 2024.