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described the green ambo of Hagia Sophia was a ‘rare admirable artistic piece of construction’ ... ‘one of the monuments of the whole world’. This ambo of Hagia Sophia in
Thessaloniki is now in the
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Verd antique is used like marble especially in interior decoration and occasionally as outdoor trim, although the masses are frequently jointed and often only small slabs can be secured.
722:"Green Thessalian Stone: the Byzantine Quarries and the Use of a Unique Architectural Material from the Larissa Area, Greece. Petrographic and Geochemical Characterization"
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breccia, despite also having a very high serpentine content. It is named after the region in the western part of the country in which it is quarried (including
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Stone, Ralph W., Sanford, Samuel. Useful
Minerals of the United States. United States: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1914, p.63
148:("Thessalian marble", "serpentine marble", "Moriah stone", etc.). It has also been called and marketed as "ophicalcite" or "ophite".
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were all entombed in this way. Such sarcophagi are found today in Hagia Sophia and in the
Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
503:. Nine emperors and eight other imperial figures, mostly empresses, are known to have been buried in such sarcophagi.
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popular since ancient times as a decorative facing stone. It is a dark, dull green, white-mottled (or white-veined)
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370:. Another, smaller such ambo exists in the church of Hagios Minas in Thessaloniki, with another sixth-century
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varieties of a very similar serpentinite, sometimes also called "verd antique", have been quarried at
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Subsequently, many
Ottoman mosques incorporated verd antique columns and other material, as at the
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extensively, including large monolithic columns. The
Justinianic
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of the Byzantine period were of verd antique, according to the
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Claremont, N.H.: Claremont Manufacturing Co., 1862, p. 50.
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DeJongh, Brian; Gandon, John; and Graham-Bell, Geoffrey.
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has been documented in English texts as early as 1745.
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It is sometimes classed, erroneously, as a variety of
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was three times the price of grey-white marble from
433:, a Thessalian stone outside a church dedicated to
393:in the A and B Basilicas and the ‘Octagon’, and in
697:Woodbridge, Conn.: Companion Guides, 2000, p. 153.
649:New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975, p. 140.
293:monuments, many inherited from the city's time as
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757:Geological Society, London, Special Publications
182:The ancient Romans quarried it especially at
483:in Rome all have verd antique decoration.
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695:The Companion Guide to Mainland Greece.
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467:all used Thessalian verd antique. The
285:after them; columns and revetments of
202:, Thessalian marble was priced at 150
198:or Thessalian marble. In Diocletian's
137:, which takes a high polish. The term
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64:Rhode Island School of Design Museum
25:Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus
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306:Church of SS. Sergius & Bacchus
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634:Tables of Gemstone Identification.
381:Thessalian marble appeared in the
314:Monastery of Saint John Prodromos
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632:Dedyne, Roger and Quintens, Ivo.
473:Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
350:of verd antique are found in the
331:also employs Thessalian columns.
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238:, and exceeded only in value by
100:, "ancient green"), also called
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658:"Notes From the Stone Fields."
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78:Roman columns in Byzantium's
352:Church of the Acheiropoietos
240:Synnadic or Docimaean marble
194:. This variety was known as
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662:35:1 (January 1914), p. 50.
368:Istanbul Archaeology Museum
321:Church of the Holy Apostles
310:Church of Hagios Polyeuctus
23:Verd antique column in the
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441:disembarked for Philippi.
437:is said to mark where the
383:Monastery of Hosios Loukas
360:Hagia Sophia, Thessaloniki
720:Melfos, Vasilios (2008).
465:Palatine Chapel at Aachen
493:Patria Constantinopoleos
486:Thirteen Roman imperial
621:Gemstones of the World.
526:and his co-emperor son
458:Grand Mosque of Córdoba
427:Saint John's at Ephesus
200:Edict on Maximum Prices
184:Casambala, near Larissa
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169:Addison County, Vermont
157:Victorville, California
409:, in the cathedral at
165:Holly Springs, Georgia
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51:bust, with an ancient
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329:San Vitale at Ravenna
230:, higher priced than
222:, and red granite of
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645:MacFall, Russell P.
477:Santa Maria Maggiore
246:, porphyritic green
29:Küçuk Ayasofya Camii
16:Type of green marble
680:Hitchcock, Edward.
647:Gem Hunter's Guide.
249:lapis Lacedaemonius
167:; and Rochester in
47:Eighteenth century
619:Schumann, Walter.
547:Süleymaniye Mosque
455:ʿAbd ar-Raḥman I's
325:marmor thessalicum
196:marmor thessalicum
107:marmor thessalicum
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606:and Billings, E.
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559:Connemara marble
553:Connemara marble
498:Constantine VII
469:Cappella Corsini
451:Dome of the Rock
356:Hagios Demetrios
279:Byzantine Empire
263:Mons Porphyrites
220:granito del foro
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289:are common in
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577:Lissoughter
532:Michael III
528:Constantine
372:Thessalicum
344:iconostasis
338:. Columns,
299:Justinianic
281:and by the
268:Thessalicum
218:, known as
809:Categories
591:References
524:Theophilus
517:Michael I
488:sarcophagi
415:Kato Milia
399:Amphipolis
319:, and the
291:Istanbul's
208:per cubic
153:brecciated
123:serpentine
88:(obsolete
57:Agrippina
830:Gemstones
795:134563435
787:0305-8719
583:, and in
540:Alexander
509:Justin II
395:basilicae
323:all used
232:cipollino
226:, called
135:magnesite
27:(now the
815:Breccias
431:Neapolis
391:Philippi
283:Ottomans
266:. Green
244:Docimium
236:Carystus
188:Thessaly
131:dolomite
55:head of
33:Istanbul
585:Clifden
565:Ireland
536:Basil I
519:Rangabe
387:Boeotia
272:Thassos
254:Laconia
205:denarii
127:calcite
119:breccia
114:, is a
94:Italian
92:, from
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538:, and
475:, and
460:, and
425:, and
423:Stagoi
419:Pieria
403:Thasos
376:Sicily
358:, and
346:, and
340:ambons
312:, the
297:. The
256:, and
192:Greece
146:marble
112:Ophite
90:French
37:Turkey
791:S2CID
421:, at
413:, at
411:Stobi
405:, in
401:, on
389:, at
348:fonts
260:from
252:from
242:from
234:from
224:Aswan
190:, in
133:, or
110:, or
59:minor
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783:ISSN
505:Zeno
479:and
407:Dion
210:foot
175:Uses
151:Non-
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