{"id":6539,"date":"2026-01-13T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-marbles\/i-marmi-piazzola-8-bigio-africanato\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:12:23","slug":"the-marbles-area-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-marbles\/the-marbles-area-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marbles – Area 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

This variegated type of\u00a0africano<\/em>\u00a0marble was probably already exhausted by the Flavian period (late 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century AD), by which time the quarries were only producing a greyish variety rarely traversed by red veins, as attested by the numerous blocks still present at the extraction site of Karag\u00f6l near Teos.<\/p>\n

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Seferihisar, Teos. Large stepped blocks of bigio africanato lying at the quarry of Karag\u00f6l\u00f9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The fragments of inlaid column (A-B, X) are unique today and also provide evidence of the complex and laborious attempt to artificially recreate the original polychromy of\u00a0africano<\/em>\u00a0marble, by then difficult to find, by inserting small curved pieces of the\u00a0rosso brecciata<\/em>\u00a0variety into a grey-coloured shaft.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tColumn shaft in bigio africanato, inlaid with pieces of africano rosso\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tDetail of the inlaid column shaft with a bracket from restoration work, empty depressions with cavities for pins inserts\n(Bruno M. 2008)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tRecovery of the large shaft in bigio africanato from the Tiber near the Ponte della Scafa in 1988\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This variegated type of\u00a0africano\u00a0marble was probably already exhausted by the Flavian period (late 1st\u00a0century AD), by which time the quarries were only producing a greyish variety rarely traversed by red veins, as attested by the numerous blocks still present at the extraction site of Karag\u00f6l near Teos.   The fragments of inlaid column (A-B, X)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6517,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6539","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6539","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=6539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6553,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6539\/revisions\/6553"}],"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=6539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}