{"id":6542,"date":"2026-01-13T13:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-marbles\/i-marmi-piazzola-5-cipollino-marmor-carystium\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:12:11","slug":"the-marbles-area-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-marbles\/the-marbles-area-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marbles – Area 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cipollino<\/em>\u00a0marble was extracted along the western coast of southern Euboea.<\/p>\n

Introduced to Rome during the Augustan period (late 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century BC – early 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century AD), it was used for column shafts and revetment panels for the most important complexes in the city and provinces.<\/p>\n

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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 cipollino marble from the Podesti Collection\n(Pensabene P., Bruno M. 1998)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n

Its use at Ostia is attested by column shafts in the\u00a0frigidarium<\/em>\u00a0of the\u00a0Terme del Foro<\/em>\u00a0and in the fa\u00e7ade of the\u00a0Tempio Rotondo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

However, the only known sculpture in\u00a0cipollino<\/em>\u00a0marble is the crocodile used as a fountain in the Canopus at Hadrian\u2019s Villa.<\/p>\n

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Hadrian\u2019s Villa, Antiquarium. Crocodile fountain statue in\u00a0cipollino<\/em>\u00a0marble from the Canopus
(Zannoni V. 1999)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The few dates, indicated with the name of the consuls and carved onto the blocks, refer to the checks carried out at the\u00a0statio marmorum<\/em>\u00a0(marble store) of Portus, whilst lead seals are completely absent.<\/p>\n

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Inscription of the consul Augurinus (AD 132) referring to a recount of the blocks at the\u00a0statio marmorum<\/em>\u00a0of Isola Sacra<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cipollino\u00a0marble was extracted along the western coast of southern Euboea. Introduced to Rome during the Augustan period (late 1st\u00a0century BC – early 1st\u00a0century AD), it was used for column shafts and revetment panels for the most important complexes in the city and provinces. Its use at Ostia is attested by column shafts in the\u00a0frigidarium\u00a0of the\u00a0Terme…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6517,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6542","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6542","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=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6559,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6542\/revisions\/6559"}],"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=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}