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- Title
Provenance of White Marbles from the Roman City of Tauriana (Palmi, Reggio Calabria, Italy).
- Authors
De Luca, Raffaella; Barca, Donatella; Bloise, Andrea; Dominici, Rocco; Lezzerini, Marco; Sica, Maria Maddalena; Miriello, Domenico
- Abstract
The work shows the results of an archaeometric study performed on fourteen white marble samples from the Roman city of Tauriana (Palmi, Reggio Calabria, Italy), belonging to different architectural elements of the Municipal Museum Complex and artifacts reused in the modern town. Samples were studied by optical microscopy (OM), x-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), and isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) of 13C and 18O with the aim to identify their provenance. The comparison between the collected data and the historical ones, concerning the ancient quarries of white marble of the Mediterranean area, allowed us to prove that most of the marbles used in the city of Tauriana were from the Apuan Alps Basin (Carrara) and, in few cases, from Minor Asia (Proconnesos, Aphrodisias, Docimium) and Greek (Thasos and Pentelic) quarries.
- Subjects
REGGIO di Calabria (Italy); MARBLE sculpture; MARBLE; X-ray powder diffraction; ARCHITECTURAL details; MASS spectrometry; MICROSCOPY
- Publication
Minerals (2075-163X), 2020, Vol 10, Issue 4, p297
- ISSN
2075-163X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/min10040297