Pentelic Marble Wiki

Pentelic marble was used for sculpture as well as for buildings.

Pentelic marble wiki.

Media in category pentelic marble sculptures the following 92 files are in this category out of 92 total. Pentelikon north of athens since the 1st millennium bce. It is fine grained with sporadic calcitic fossil clasts. Coré de lyon is a greek statue of pentelic marble depicting a bust of a young girl of the kore type conserved at the musée des beaux arts de lyon france.

Deriving from the athenian acropolis it is generally dated to the 540s bc. γλυπτά του παρθενώνα also known as the elgin marbles ˈɛlɡɪn are a collection of classical greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sculptor phidias and his assistants. Parian marble is a fine grained semi translucent pure white and entirely flawless marble quarried during the classical era on the greek island of paros in the aegean sea. The parthenon marbles greek.

Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals most commonly calcite or dolomite marble is typically not foliated although there are exceptions in geology the term marble refers to metamorphosed limestone but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone. From wikipedia the free encyclopedia the kore of lyons french. Pentelic marbles often contain inclusions or veins of quartz iron oxide graphite mica or pyrite. Descriptionpentelic marble funerary stele of hegeso found in kerameikos athens 410 400 bc 28387059682 jpg athens stone sculpture gallery national archaeological museum of greece athens greece.

It was highly prized by ancient greeks for making sculptures. Pentelic marble is white with a uniform faint yellow tint which makes it shine with a golden hue under sunlight. Pentelic comparative more pentelic superlative most pentelic of or relating to mount pentelicus penteliko mountain near athens famous for its fine white marble quarries. Penteli is the site of the ancient town of pentele.

The romans constructed a 140 foot water tower and aqueduct to supply water to the city of athens. Pentelic marble is calcitic in composition with quartz as an accessory mineral. A white fine grain marble that has been quarried at mt. The penteli mountains were renowned in classical greece as well as in the roman empire as a source of the marble which was also used to build the parthenon.