MONS-CLAUDIANUS AND THE PROBLEM OF THE GRANITO-DEL-FORO - A GEOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL APPROACH

Authors
PEACOCK DPS WILLIAMSTHORPE O THORPE RS TINDLE AG
Citation
Dps. Peacock et al., MONS-CLAUDIANUS AND THE PROBLEM OF THE GRANITO-DEL-FORO - A GEOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL APPROACH, Antiquity, 68(259), 1994, pp. 209-230
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Archaeology,Archaeology
Journal title
Antiquity → ACNP
ISSN journal
0003598X
Volume
68
Issue
259
Year of publication
1994
Pages
209 - 230
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-598X(1994)68:259<209:MATPOT>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Granito del foro is a distinctive igneous rock, in fact a granodiorite rather than a granite, long known and named for its use in buildings of the Roman Forum. Exactly what is it? Where does it come from? Where else was it used and not used? What does the granito del foro say abo ut ownership and empire?