{"id":6514,"date":"2026-01-13T14:14:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/i-marmi-piazzola-15-marmi-vari\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:11:56","slug":"the-marbles-area-15-various-marbles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-marbles\/the-marbles-area-15-various-marbles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marbles – Area 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

The five blocks of stepped parallelepiped shape are of eastern origin: some can be identified as less prized variants of the more famous\u00a0pavonazzetto<\/em> marble, whilst others come from a quarry at Aphrodisias in Caria, where a marble of a type similar to the former was extracted.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tSample of\u00a0pavonazzetto\u00a0marble from the Podesti Collection\n(Pensabene P., Bruno M. 1998)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tSample of\u00a0pavonazzetto\u00a0marble from the Podesti Collection\n(Pensabene P., Bruno M. 1998)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n

Three blocks, two parallelepiped and one unshaped of large size, are in Luni marble and bear modern inscriptions relating to extraction activities carried out in the 19th<\/sup>\u00a0century for the Papal States.<\/p>\n

These blocks were recovered in the\u00a0Fossa Traiana<\/em>, together with others with similar inscriptions, now in the\u00a0Museo delle Navi<\/em>\u00a0at Fiumicino.<\/p>\n

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Carrara. View of the district of Miseglia with the Fantiscritti quarries at the top
(Bruno M. 2006)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Carrara, transport in 1928 of the large monolithic block destined for the Foro Italico obelisk from the Carbonera quarry in the Miseglia district
(Archivio A. Pintonello, Roma)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The five blocks of stepped parallelepiped shape are of eastern origin: some can be identified as less prized variants of the more famous\u00a0pavonazzetto marble, whilst others come from a quarry at Aphrodisias in Caria, where a marble of a type similar to the former was extracted. Three blocks, two parallelepiped and one unshaped of large…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6517,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6536,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6514\/revisions\/6536"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}