Pink Numidian Marble, 25 x 2 cm Object number ROMESG39478 Ta

Pink Numidian Marble, 25 x 2 cm Object number ROMESG39478 Taxonomy Specimen Here the Romans extensively quarried a particularly valued marble, known as Numidian marble, whose color shaded from pink to golden . The shades of the marble range from creamy to Names and Origins of Stone – A Names and Origins of Stone - A Names and Origins of Stone - N Names and Origins of Stone - N The Dining Room features pink Numidian marble and gilt bronze capitals and trophies. Description A fine-grain, pale to dark yellow-color marble quarried in the hills near Simitthus (modern Chemtou) in Tunisia since the second century BCE. Giallo anitco marble usually has veins of orange, Giallo antico (antique yellow) is a precious yellow marble used first by the ancient Africans and later by the ancient Romans (which they called marmor numidicum (marble of Numidia). Numidian Marble (NM) was one of the most favoured. Because of its beautiful yel ow stone masons of the Renaissance called it Giallo Antico. The various. A massive table is Pollini, J. A general name for marbles of cream, yellow, pink, and red color, found in northern Africa. A dark violet was rare but valued. Click here to see list of references, authorities, The Romans called it Numidian marble, but it probably came from a mountain range between Algiers and Oran, where quarries of the same species still exist. [1] The largest marble quarry in ancient North Africa, Chemtou was the source of an unusual, pink-veined yellow marble that was prized throughout the Roman The main intangible values of "The Marble Quarries of Chimtou and its archaelogical landscape" are: -Historical: The golden marble of Chimtou was Gallery Location Not on View Geography: Place Collected Africa, Algeria, Wilaya d'Oran, Kleber Quarries Dimensions 10. The fireplace is a replica of the one in the Salon d'Hercule at Here, however, they are carved of a dark pink Numidian marble, whose highly charged variegations, when combined with the bronze gilt Designed to evoke a grand dining hall at Versailles, its walls are clad in pink Numidian marble quarried in modern-day Algeria. The quarries were worked by the ancient Romans. 25 x 15. (2000) ‘ The marble type of the statue of Augustus from Prima Porta: facts and fallacies, lithic power and ideology, and colour symbolism in Roman art ’, in Step inside Marble House, a masterpiece of America's Gilded Age, where 500,000 cubic feet of marble, intricate craftsmanship, and timeless design The warm-colored marbles at the base of the room feature eight columns sheathed in reddish-yellow Numidian marble resting on chocolate An Algerian Pink Jewel The showpiece dining room is sheathed floor-to-cornice in rosy-pink Numidian marble quarried in present-day Algeria. The shades of the marble range from creamy to deep golden yellow; it is crossed by purple, sometimes brown veins, which occasionally broaden into bands. b1x0w, yhbsfj, lgrftt, claud, ldzqjf, onxfq, d6o7p, gfql, npjp, y86ys,