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2. Giallo antico - Wikipedia

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   Marble quarry in Chemtou. It was extracted in quarries which can be seen today near the ancient city of Simitthus, near the current village of Chemtou, Tunisia. [3]Its colour varies from intense yellow to lighter, almost white hues, with dark yellow, reddish or brown veins, and angular clasts of various sizes and colours (shades of yellow, rosy red, brown). [4]

3. Forma Urbis Romae - Wikipedia

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   The Forma Urbis Romae or Severan Marble Plan is a massive marble map of ancient Rome, created under the emperor Septimius Severus between AD 203 and 211. Matteo Cadario gives specific years of 205–208, noting that the map was based on property records.

4. Carrara marble - Wikipedia

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   Carrara marble, or Luna marble (marmor lunense) to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It has been quarried since Roman times in the mountains just outside the city of Carrara in the province of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana , the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany , Italy.

5. Grand Antique marble - Wikipedia

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   Grand Antique marble (also Celtic marble (Latin: marmor celticum), Grand Antique of Aubert, and known in Roman times as Marmor Aquitanicum), is a prestigious marble, composed of clasts of black limestone and white calcite, quarried near Aubert-Moulis in France.

6. The Veiled Virgin - Wikipedia

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   The Veiled Virgin is a Carrara marble statue carved in Rome by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza (1818–1875) [2] depicting the bust of a veiled Virgin Mary. [3] The exact date of the statue's completion is unknown, but it was probably in the early 1850s. [4] The veil gives the appearance of being translucent, but is carved of marble

7. Villa of the Quintilii - Wikipedia

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   The large frigidarium hall with two symmetrical cold pools still retains the extraordinary precious marble opus sectile flooring (in Thassos marble, cipollino, giallo antico) found in excavations of 1998-2000, and two preserved marble columns retrieved from the Baths of Diocletian after being removed by Nibby in 1828-9 for Prince Torlonia. The ...