{"id":6538,"date":"2026-01-13T13:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-marbles\/i-marmi-piazzola-9-pavonazzetto-marmor-phrygium\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:12:27","slug":"the-marbles-area-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-marbles\/the-marbles-area-9\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marbles – Area 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pavonazzetto<\/em>\u00a0marble, extracted from the quarries of Phrygia from the mid-Augustan period (late 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century BC \u2013 early 1st<\/sup> century AD), was counted among the most prized marbles and was prevalently used for sculpture groups: prominent among these were the statues of subjugated Barbarians (also known as Phrygians), to which the use of this marble was well-suited.<\/p>\n

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

Revetment panels \u2013 for the production of which the stepped blocks were destined \u2013 adorned important public buildings, whilst column shafts, like those of the\u00a0Capitolium<\/em>\u00a0in Ostia, embellished Imperial architecture.<\/p>\n

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View of the quarry of Bacakale at Iscehisar (Bruno M. 2010)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The four- and two-lobed columns (A, O), to be separated once they reached their destination, illustrate means of safe transport.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tRome. Dacians in pavonazzetto marble from the Forum of Trajan on the north attic of the Arch of Constantine\n(Bruno M. 2008)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tNapoli, Museo Archeologico. Barbaro inginocchiato in pavonazzetto dalla Collezione Farnese\n(Castellani S. 2002)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pavonazzetto\u00a0marble, extracted from the quarries of Phrygia from the mid-Augustan period (late 1st\u00a0century BC \u2013 early 1st century AD), was counted among the most prized marbles and was prevalently used for sculpture groups: prominent among these were the statues of subjugated Barbarians (also known as Phrygians), to which the use of this marble was well-suited….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6517,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6538","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6538","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=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6552,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6538\/revisions\/6552"}],"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=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}