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Marble analysis, 4134

Monumental portrait of a woman


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

 

Mineralogy: calcite
Texture: heteroblastic
Maximum grain size (MGS): 1.40 mm
δ18OV-PDB: -3.29 ‰  -3.06 ‰  -3.03 ‰
δ13CV-PDB: 5.73 ‰  5.76 ‰  5.80 ‰    
Cathodoluminescence color: blue
Cathodoluminescence intensity: weak
Cathodoluminescence distribution: homogeneous

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

D. Decrouez & K. Ramseyer (2019)