It is a coarse grained calcite marble with grey graphite bearing banding.
What is proconnesian marble.
In addition the precisely dated inscription of ad 95 96 on one side of the philadelphia panel is an important example of a monument constructed by imperial order made of proconnesian marble.
The proconnesian marble is one of the most popular white marbles used in antiquity attracting the interest of the scientific community in relation to provenance studies in archaeometry.
Reddish rose brown grey spotted with veins from old times quarried by the knights of the cross with the red star order which received the slivenec village in 1253 from wenceslaus i přemyslid the.
Slivenec marble slivenecký mramor from barrandien slivenec and radotín cikánka horní kopanina na špičce hvížďalka quarries prague.
The white marble in the center is proconnesian marble marmo di proconneso from the island of marmara which is 100 miles from constantinople.
For he was choke full of revenues being ruler of all caria.
Its use flourished during the roman era with numerous buildings and art materials sarcophagi sculptures etc made out of proconnesos marble.
At halicarnassus the house of that most potent king mausolus though decorated throughout with proconnesian marble has walls built of brick which are to this day of extraordinary strength and are covered with stucco so highly polished that they seem to be as glistening as glass that king did not use brick from poverty.
Proconnesian marble is used extensively in the hagia sophia in constantinople and exclusively in the herculean sarcophagus of genzano now in the british museum.