Rome / architectural fragment / Marble
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.6740
- Object Name
- architectural fragment
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Inorganic specimens
- Materials
- Marble
- Weight
- 266g
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Large and small fragments of porphyry, granite and various marbles mostly in shades of green though some tiny yellow and apricot-colored ones on a ground of shattered grey-green.
- Breccia verde d’Egitto. Roman name: Lapis hecatontalithos (stone of a hundred rocks). From Wadi Hammâmât, Egypt.
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Verbatim Provenance
- Italy
- Verbatim Site
- Rome
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Case 37 - Roman Construction T Drawer
- Exhibition Curator
- Gazda, Elaine
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- Publication Title
- Handbook of Ancient Roman Marbles
- Publication Author
- Pullen, H. W.
- Publication Year
- 0000
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.6740
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6740/0000_00_6740p01.tif
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"Rome; architectural fragment; Marble." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.6740/0000_00_6740p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 04, 2024.