peperino

Numerous altars, pedestals, and fine specimens of sculpture in marble and peperino, have been disinterred in this spot, and they are now arranged to advantage at the foot of the huge pile fronting the road.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

It was surrounded with a wall of peperino, supporting at intervals vases and statues; and on the outside were semicircular stone seats for the benefit of weary wayfarers.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

Beyond this point there is nothing of any special interest to arrest our attention, till we come to a considerable mass of ruins, consisting of broken Doric columns of peperino, part of a rough mosaic floor and brick pavement, and fragments of walls lined with tufa squares in the _opus reticulatum_ pattern.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

Scipios were hollowed out of simple blocks of peperino stone; and the sculptor's art and the material in which he wrought were worthy of the severe simplicity of the heroic age.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

The margin of the road on either side is strewn with fragments of hewn marble, travertine, and peperino.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

Two sides of the cella of the temple still remain, formed by large massive blocks of peperino, probably taken from the second wall of Rome, which must have passed very near to the east end of this temple; for the ancient Roman architects were as unscrupulous in appropriating the relics of former ages as their successors.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

The beholder is confronted by the façade of the castle, a two-storied structure in the style of the Renaissance, with windows whose casements are made of peperino (cement).

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

The monuments of Rome were not of marble in the times of the republic, and this sarcophagus being cut out of a block of the volcanic _peperino_, so common in the Campagna, the author had his model made of the same material, with the inscription cut in rude characters round the margin; that is to say, such part of it as had been preserved, so that it is a perfect fac-simile.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

Tarquinii, the stone being of the colour of peperino.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

Originally the sepulchre stood above ground, and the entrance to it was by a solid arch of peperino, facing a cross-road leading from the Appian to the Latin Way; but the soil in the course of ages accumulated over it, and buried it out of sight.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan