cipollino

The identification of stone types, such as cipollino, kaplan postu, and pavonazetto, is usually pretty straightforward.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Stone Report 1 2003

Fine-grained white and grey marble were most common, but also cipollino verde, pavonazetto, kaplan postu, alabaster, schist, tuffo and even ceramics were used to lay out the mosaic floor.

Stone Studies « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009

With the exception of cipollino verde, which was not found in similar large quantities, the usual stone types, such as pavonazetto, Afyon şeker, Afyon gri and kaplan postu, were all well represented in the caldaria.

Stone Studies « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009

Some stone types though, such as africano or cipollino rosso, are almost completely absent at Sagalassos.

Stone Studies « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009

The western extremity must have contained a monumental entrance composed of doorposts in cipollino marble (marble from Karystos on the island of Euboia in Greece).

Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Roman Baths Report 1 2003

We have recovered tons of marble veneer, apparently composed of green cipollino in the lower part of the curved recesses around three sides of the pool, and of white or purple-veined (pavonazetto) from the Docimian quarries (near Afyon, Turkey) in the upper parts and the rest of the room.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 8 2003

The eastern curved niche with its cipollino veneer continuing behind the support pier, added later.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Roman Baths Report 7 2003

We already mentioned the use of afyon seker (sugar white), afyon bal (honey), pavonazetto (purple veined white marble or breccias) and cipollino (a green marble variety from Euboia, Greece) as the main marbles used as wall veneer, but new varieties of stone appear almost every day.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 7 2003

A veneer of green Carystian marble (cipollino from the island of Euboia, Greece) was still in place in several parts of the niche, and fragments of Docimian white and pavonazetto (purple veined) marble were also found.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Roman Baths Report 7 2003

Large amounts of marble revetment slabs, mainly composed of green-white cipollino from Euboia, white and purple veined pavonazetto from Dokimeion, have been found in the new frigidarium.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Roman Baths Report 8 2003