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Marble analysis, 8413

Head of a servant (from an Attic funerary monument)


White marble
Marble origin: Paros (Paros-Marathi) (Greece)

 

Mineralogy: calcite
Texture: heteroblastic
Maximum grain size (MGS): 1.40 mm 
δ18OV-PDB: -3 ‰  -3.54 ‰  -3.41 ‰
δ13CV-PDB: 4.53 ‰  4.57 ‰  4.55 ‰
Cathodoluminescence color: brown-pink
Cathodoluminescence intensity: weak
Cathodoluminescence distribution: homogeneous

All data are in accordance with Paros (Paros-Marathi) as the marble origin.
 

D. Decrouez & K. Ramseyer (1997, 2017)