Title & Author:

Ancient marble quarrying and trade : papers from a colloquium held at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Antonio, Texas, December 1986 / edited by J. Clayton Fant ; with contributions by Tony Koželj [and others].

Publication:

Oxford, England : B.A.R., 1988.

Description:

xii, 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm

Series:

BAR international series ; 453

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Carrieres des époques grecque, romaine et byzantin / Tony Kozelj -- Patterns of extraction and production in the white marble quarries of the Mediterranean : history, present problems and prospects / M. Waelkens, P. de Paepe, L. Moens -- Recent work in stable isotope analysis of white marble at the British Museum / Susan Walker and Keith Matthews -- Sculpture from Cyrene in its Mediterranean context / Susan E. Kane -- Roman statuary and the supply of statuary marble / Amanda Claridge.
Includes one paper in French.

ISBN:

0860545822 (paperback)
9780860545828 (paperback)

Subject:

Marble industry and trade Greece.
Marble industry and trade Rome.
Marble sculpture, Classical.
Marbre Industrie Grèce.
Marbre Industrie Rome.
Sculpture en marbre antique.
Marble industry and trade.
Marble industry and trade Congresses.
Quarries and quarrying Congresses.
Archaeology Congresses.
Marbre industrie Grèce Antiquité.
Marbre industrie Rome.
Sculpture en marbre grecque.
Sculpture en marbre romaine.
Greece.
Rome (Empire)
Prehistoric quarries Archaeological investigation

Added entries:

Fant, J. Clayton.
Koželj, Tony.
Archaeological Institute of America. General Meeting.
BAR international series ; 453.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 46441
Call No.: ID:89-B5749
Status: Available