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  2. Thasos - Wikipedia

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    Postal code. 640 04. Area code (s) 25930. Vehicle registration. ΚΒ. Thasos or Thassos (Greek: Θάσος, Thásos) is a Greek island in the North Aegean Sea. It is the northernmost major Greek island, and 12th largest by area. The island has an area of 380 km 2 and a population of about 13,000.

  3. Archaeological Museum of Thasos - Wikipedia

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    The Archaeological Museum of Thasos is a museum located in Limenas on the island of Thasos, Eastern Macedonia, Greece. It occupies a house that was built in 1934 and recently extended. Storerooms and workshops have been restored, and are fully operational. These include the shop, the official functions room, the old wing, the prehistoric ...

  4. Thasos (town) - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.thassos.gr. Thasos (Greek: Θάσος, Thásos) is a town on the island of Thasos in northern Greece. It is the capital and main town of the island. The town is also called Limenas Thasou or for short just Limenas (Greek: Λιμένας Θάσου, Liménas Thásou, "Harbour of Thasos") to distinguish the town from the island on ...

  5. List of types of marble - Wikipedia

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    Daleti marble, Western Welega: white, white with grey veins and other colours [1] Enda Tikurir marble, Western Tigray. Newi marble, Central Tigray. Akmara marble, Central Tigray. Dichinamo marble, Western Tigray.

  6. 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.

  7. Tharros - Wikipedia

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    Archaeologists found a tophet, an open-air sacred place common for several installations of Phoenicians in the western Mediterranean, on top of a hill called Su Muru Mannu near the remains of a village built by the Nuragic peoples (1900-730 BC [4]).

  8. Getty kouros - Wikipedia

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    The Getty kouros is an over-life-sized statue in the form of a late archaic Greek kouros. [1] The dolomitic marble sculpture was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, in 1985 for ten million dollars and first exhibited there in October 1986. [2][3][4] Despite initial favourable scientific analysis of the patina and aging ...

  9. Temple of Hephaestus - Wikipedia

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    The temple is built of marble from the nearby Mt. Penteli, excepting the bottom step of the krepis or platform. The architectural sculpture is in both Pentelic and Parian marble. The dimensions of the temple are 13.71 m north to south and 31.78 m east to west, with six columns on the short east and west sides and thirteen columns along the ...

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