{"id":6540,"date":"2026-01-13T13:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-marbles\/i-marmi-piazzola-7-marmi-da-via-redipuglia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:12:20","slug":"the-marbles-area-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-marbles\/the-marbles-area-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marbles – Area 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collected in this area are artefacts, blocks, shafts and architectural elements, recovered in the early 1990s along Via Redipuglia, on Isola Sacra.<\/p>\n

The most frequently attested marble is\u00a0cipollino<\/em>, followed by a substantial number of fragments of\u00a0africano<\/em>, architectural elements in Proconnesian marble and a block of\u00a0pavonazzetto<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tSample of pavonazzetto marble 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 cipollino marble 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 africano marble from the Podesti Collection\n(Pensabene P., Bruno M. 1998)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tMuseo Ostiense. Posthumous portrait of Trajan in white Aphrodisian marble from G\u00f6ktepe, from the marble workshop near the Theatre\n(Bruno M. 2019)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n

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A fair number of fragments are in Aphrodisian white marble from G\u00f6ktepe: this is a fine-grained marble that was favoured for Imperial portraiture starting from the early 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0century AD; an example is the posthumous portrait of Trajan from the marble workshop near the Theatre.<\/p>\n

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G\u00f6ktepe, Mu\u011fla. View of the quarry tunnel in sector 3C (Bruno M. 2006)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collected in this area are artefacts, blocks, shafts and architectural elements, recovered in the early 1990s along Via Redipuglia, on Isola Sacra. The most frequently attested marble is\u00a0cipollino, followed by a substantial number of fragments of\u00a0africano, architectural elements in Proconnesian marble and a block of\u00a0pavonazzetto.   A fair number of fragments are in Aphrodisian white…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6517,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6540","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6540","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=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6555,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6540\/revisions\/6555"}],"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=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}