Ancient Marbles Wiki

Ancient Marbles Wiki (β)

An open approach to sharing knowledge about ancient marbles and stones.

Content

• Preface: about the naming conventions used on this wiki
• Marble in Antiquity
  • Extraction and trade of marble
  • Regions of provenance
• Ancient marbles after Antiquity
  • Geological classification of marbles
  • Reuse of ancient marbles in the Middle Ages and Modern era
• Pages about ancient marbles (list)
• Images
  • see all the Flickr photos tagged with "ancientmarbles"
  • Galleries at Wikimedia Commons
    • Quarries by material at Wikimedia Commons
    • Rocks at Wikimedia Commons see especially the Igneous rocks, Metamorphic rocks and Sedimentary rocks sub-categories
• Bibliographies ‒ our Zotero group is the main place for collecting bibliographic references

Community

• about the Ancient Marbles Project
  • Technical overview
• Get involved in the Ancient Marbles Community
• the Ancient Marbles blog
• Micro tasks ‒ ways to get involved fast (if you've just got a small amount of time)
• Contact - how to contact the Ancient Marbles team

Latest news from the blog

ASMOSIA Xth International Conference – Rome 2012; Cave di marmo cipollino sulla costa meridionale dell’Eubea; Ancient marbles from Ostia; Greenstone from Thessaly – Byzantine and Christian Musem in Athens