L’alabastro (alabastro onice calcareo) era molto apprezzato dai romani per scopi ornamentali. Plinio il Vecchio testimonia la novità dell’alabastro, presumibilmente Egiziano, a metà del I secolo a.C. a Roma. Il progetto Alabaster: Quarrying and Trade in the Roman World ha esaminato l’alabastro nei pavimenti di Pompei ed Ercolano al fine di determinare le varietà impiegate […]

It is generally thought that by the 1st century BC stone vessels had lost their “relevance” in the material culture hierarchy across the Mediterranean. Nevertheless, stone vessels did not completely lose their importance and the production of utilitarian, ritual or luxury vases in stone continued into the 1st century AD, albeit on a relatively smaller […]