{"id":6545,"date":"2026-01-13T13:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-marbles\/i-marmi-piazzola-2-africano-marmor-luculleum\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:12:00","slug":"the-marbles-area-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/the-marbles\/the-marbles-area-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marbles – Area 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucullan marble was quarried at various sites in the vicinity of Teos in Asia Minor and was introduced to Rome during the 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century BC.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tSample of\u00a0africano\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\u00a0africano\u00a0marble from the Podesti Collection\n(Pensabene P., Bruno M. 1998)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n

This is one of the coloured marbles most typical of Augustan architecture (late 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century BC \u2013 early 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century AD), but the two large thresholds of the Pantheon in Rome and of the\u00a0Capitolium<\/em>\u00a0in Ostia show that it was still used in particularly important buildings during the Hadrianic period (first half of the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0century AD), when the quarries must already have been exhausted for some time.<\/p>\n

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Threshold of the cella with monolithic block of\u00a0africano<\/em>\u00a0marble
(Bruno M. 2019)<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The stepped blocks (A-D, F, J-Q) were destined for the production of revetment panels, whilst the depressions for metal brackets on the large roughly carved column shaft (E) clearly document ancient repairs made to pieces damaged during extraction.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tSample of\u00a0africano\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\u00a0africano\u00a0marble from the Podesti Collection\n(Pensabene P., Bruno M. 1998)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n

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\n\t\t\tPositioning of a stepped block of africano\u00a0marble in the gardens of the archaeological site of ancient Ostia in 1977\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tRecovery of a stepped block of\u00a0africano\u00a0marble from the Fiumicino canal in 1977\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lucullan marble was quarried at various sites in the vicinity of Teos in Asia Minor and was introduced to Rome during the 1st\u00a0century BC. This is one of the coloured marbles most typical of Augustan architecture (late 1st\u00a0century BC \u2013 early 1st\u00a0century AD), but the two large thresholds of the Pantheon in Rome and of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6517,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6545","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=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6565,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6545\/revisions\/6565"}],"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=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}