Asmosia VII

Ce volume comprend les textes des communications d'ASMOSIA VII, 7e conférence internationale de l'Association pour l'étude du marbre et des autres pierres dans l'Antiquité (Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity), qui s'est tenue dans l'île de Thasos, en Grèce. Les thèmes abordés dans ces communications sont à la pointe du domaine interdisciplinaire où se rejoignent la science, l'archéologie et l'histoire de l'art ; ils reflètent un large spectre de la recherche sur les pierres, depuis la carrière jusqu'au produit décoré dans son état final. Les sujets plus particulièrement abordés sont les suivants : (1) Considérations archéologiques et emploi du marbre ; (2) Carrières, techniques d'extraction, géologie et propriétés de la pierre ; (3) Identification de provenance et caractérisation : le marbre ; (4) Identification de provenance et caractérisation : autres pierres ; (5) Techniques et développements ; (6) Bases de données ; (7) Propriétés de la pierre _ Vieillissement _Restauration et (8) Pigments et peintures sur marbre.

This book contains the papers submitted to ASMOSIA VII, which is the 7th International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity. The conference was held in the island os Thassos, Greece. The subjects of the papers represent the state-of-the-art in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Archeology and Art-History and reflect a very broad range of research and applications on stone, from the quarry to the final decorated object.In particular, the subjects cover: (1) Archeological considerations and use of marble, (2) Quarries, Quarrying Techniques, Geology and Stone properties, (3) Provenance Identification and Characterisation: Marble, (4) Provenance Identification and Characterisation: Other stones, (5) Techniques and Developments, (6) Databases, (7) Stone Properties - Weathering - Restoration and (8) Pigments and paintings on marble.

Préface, par Yannis Maniatis

Abbreviations in bibliography

Special introductory talk

The island of Thassos and the Aegean in the Prehistory, par Haïdo Koukouli-Chryssanthaki

et Laurent Lespez

Part I: Archaeological considerations - Use of marble

Thassian marble: A connection between Thassos and Thessaloniki, par Theodosía Stefanídou-Tiveríou

Thassian Julius Caesar, par E.J. Walters

Macedonian workmanship on a Thassian marble Hadrian in Providence?, par Georgina Borromeo

, J.J. Herrmann et N. Herz

White marbles in the summer triclinium of the casa del Bracciale d'Oro, Pompeii, par J. C. Fant

The Naxian Colossus at Delos: "Same Stone", par Patricia A. Butz

Investigation of marbles and stones used in Augustean monuments of western alpine provinces (Italy), par Alessandro Betori, Maurizio Gomez Serito

et Patrizio Pensabene

Flavian amphitheatre: The Cavea and the Portico; Comments about the quality, quantity and the working of its marbles, par Francesco Bianchi

et M. Bruno

New investigations on the pedimental sculptures of the "Hieron" of Samothrace: A preliminary report, par Olga Palagia

, Yannis Maniatis

, Elissavet Dotsika et D. Kavoussanaki

Provenance investigation of some marble sarcophagi from Arles with stable isotope and maximum grain sizes analysis, par Vassiliki Gaggadis-Robin

, Yannis Maniatis

, Claude Sintès

, D. Kavoussanaki et Elissavet Dotsika

Faustino Corsi and the coloured marbles of Derbyshire, par L. Cook et I. Thomas

Three mythological sarcophagi at the RISD Museum: Marble provenances and iconography, par Frances Dodds Van Keuren

, L. Peter Gromet et N. Herz

Part II: Quarries, quarrying techniques, geology and stone properties

The Bokary granodiorite quarry in Egypt's eastern desert, par James A. Harrell

Hard stone quarrying in the Egyptian old Kingdom (3rd Millennium BC): rethinking the social organization, par E. Bloxam, Per Storemy et Tom Heldal

The ancient Egyptian quarry at Dibabiya, par Toshiichi Endo

et S. Nishimoto

Pharaonic limestone quarries in Wadi Nakhla and Deir Abu Hennis, Egypt, par Dietrich D. Klemm

et Rosemarie Klemm

GPS and GIS methodology in the mapping of Chephren's quarry, Upper Egypt: a significant tool for documentation and interpretation of the site, par Tom Heldal, Per Storemy, E. Bloxam, Ian Shaw

, R. Lee et A. Salem

New evidence of small-scale Roman basalt quarrying in Egypt: Widan el Faras in the northern Faiyum desert and Tilal Sawda by El-Minya, par Per Storemy, Tom Heldal, E. Bloxam et James A. Harrell

Ancient stone quarries: Vulnerable archaeological sites threatened by modern development, par Per Storemy et Tom Heldal

Ancient quarries in Delos, Greece, par P. J. Hadjidakis

, D. Matarangas

et Myrsini Varti -Matarangas

Quelques sarcophages rectangulaires d'époque impériale, des carrières thasiennes aux nécropoles de Thasos, par Manuela Wurch-Koželj

et Tony Kozelj

Characterisation of the timeless white marble and quarrying activity in Thassos, par K. Laskaridis et Vassilis Perdikatsis

Part III: Provenance identification and characterisation (marble)

The Torre Sgarrata wreck (South Italy): Marble artefacts in the cargo, par Francesco Gabellone, Maria Teresa Giannotta

et Alessio Agostini

The Torre Sgarrata wreck: Characterization and provenance of white marble artefacts in the cargo, par Angela Calia, Angela Calia, Lorenzo Lazzarini

et G. Quarta

New isotopic and EPR data for 22 sculptures from the extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, par D. Attanasio, S. Kane et N. Herz

EPR and Petrographic provenance of the architectural white marbles of three buildings at Villa Adriana, par D. Attanasio, Giuseppe Mesolella

, Patrizio Pensabene

, R. Platania et P. Rocchi

Marble objects from Asia Minor in the Berlin collection of classical antiquities: stone characteristics and provenance, par T. Cramer, K. Germann et Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer

On the provenance of white marbles used in the baths of Caracalla in Rome, par M. Bruno, C. Gorgoni et Pierluigi Pallante

Marble from Pentelicon, Paros, Thasos and Proconnesus in ancient Israel: an attempt at a chronological distinction, par Moshe Ladislav Fischer

The "Keros Hoard": Provenance of the figurines and possible sources of marble in the Cyclades, par Yannis Maniatis

, Panayiota I. Sotirakopoulou

, Elissavet Dotsika, Kiki Polikreti

et E. Tzavidopoulos

Provenance investigation of Neolithic marble vases from Limeraria, Thassos: Imported marble to Thassos?, par Yannis Maniatis

, Laurent Lespez

, Elissavet Dotsika, D. Kavoussanaki et E. Tzavidopoulos

Provenance study of Roman marble artefacts of an excavation near Oberdrauburg (Carinthia, Austria), par Michael Unterwurzacher

, H. Stadler et Peter Mirwald

The distribution and re-use of the most important coloured marbles in the provinces of the Roman Empire, par Lorenzo Lazzarini

The taste of the marbles in Roman villae (Tiburtina-Nomentana), par M. Mariottini, Emmanuele Curti

et Eugenio Moscetti

Marmor Thessalicum (verde antico): Source, distribution and characterization, par Lorenzo Lazzarini

et Stefano Cancelliere

Marbles and coloured stones from the theatre of Caesaraugusta (Hispania): Preliminary study, par Maria Pilar Lapuente Mercadal

, Bruno Turi

et Philippe Blanc

Marble sculptures from the Rhode Island School of Design: Provenance studies using stable isotope and other analysis, par Robert H Tykot

, Georgina Borromeo

, Crispin Corrado

et Kristen Severson

Identifying, Dolomitic Marble 2000-2003: The Capitoline Museums, New York, and Somnus-Hypnos in Urbisaglia, par J.J. Herrmann, R. Newman et A. W. van den Hoek

Part IV: Provenance identification and characterisation (other stones)

On tesserae of Roman mosaics in Lombardy (Italy), par Roberto Bugini et L. Folli

Stone materials of the Roman villas around lake Garda (Italy), par Elisabetta Roffia

, Roberto Bugini et L. Folli

The natural building stones of Helenistic to Byzantine Sagalassos: Provenance determination through stable isotope geochemistry, par Patrick Degryse

, Philippe Muchez

, E. Trogh et Marc Waelkens

Provenance of soapstone used in medieval buildings in the Bergen region, western Norway, par Tom Heldal, Rolf Birger Pedersen, Y. Ronen et Sigrid Kaland

Archaeometry of chert tools: For a non-destructive geochemical data, par B. Moroni, I. Borgia, Micla Petrelli

et Maria Pilar Lapuente Mercadal

"Granito del Foro" and "Granito di Nicotera": Archaeometric problems, par F. Antonelli, Lorenzo Lazzarini

, Stefano Cancelliere et A. Solano

The prehistoric ground stone implements from Yartarla: The preliminary results of geoarchaeological study in Tekirdag region (Eastern Thrace), par Onur Ozbek

Gypsum: A jewel in Minoan palatial architecture; Identification and characterization of its varieties, par S. Chlouveraki

The discovery of the Greek origin of the "Breccia policroma della Vittoria", par Lorenzo Lazzarini

et Fanī́ Athanasíou

Part V: Techniques and developments

Provenance study of Lapis Lazuli by non-destructive prompt gamma activation analysis (PGAA), par J. Zöldföldi et Zs. Kasztovszky

A new non-destructive methodology for studying the internal structure of white marble of artistic and archaeological interest, par F. Biricotti et Mauro Severi

Part VI: Databases

A stable isotope database for the ancient white marble quarries of Mount Pentelikon, Greece, par S. Pike

Corpus of ancient Greek quarries, par Georgia Kokkorou-Alewras

, E. Poupaki, A. Chatziconstantinou et A. Efstathopoulos

Fractal analysis and quantitative fabric analysis database of West Anatolian white marbles, par Balázs Székely et J. Zöldföldi

Part VII: Stone properties - Weathering - Restoration

Correlations of mineralogy and physical properties for stones used in the building and the restoration of the Asklepieion at Epidauros, par A. Tsikouras , K. Mihopoulos et N. Ninis

Study oh the behaviour of Serpentinite stones used for the construction of ancient Dioklitianoupoli in Northern Greece, par Ioanna Papayianni et Maria Stefanidou

Where have all the columns gone? The loss and reuse of antiquities in the Eastern Mediterranean, par M. Greenhalgh

Gypsum at the Minoan site of Knossos: Types and deterioration, par K. Kouzeli

et E. Zgouleta

Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of the marble facade of the Certosa di Pavia: Materials provenancing and problematics related to decay, par Lucio Giordani

, M. Oddone et Sandro Meloni

Ionic and charge mobility on weathered marble surfaces, studied by EPR spectroscopy, par Kiki Polikreti

et Yannis Maniatis

Part VIII: Pigments and paintings on marble

Polychrome Hellenistic sculpture in Delos: Research on surface treatments of ancient marble sculpture - Part II, par Brigitte Bourgeois

et Philippe Jockey

In-situ X-Ray-Fluorescence analysis of raw pigments and traces of polychromy on Hellenistic sculpture at the archaeological museum of Delos, par A.G. Karydas

, Hariclia Brécoulaki

, Brigitte Bourgeois

et Philippe Jockey

Asmosia VII

Actes du VIIe colloque international de l’ASMOSIA, Thasos, 15-20 septembre 2003

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