Marble analysis, 63.6.A
Fragment of a sarcophagus: banquet
White marble
Marble origin: Marmara (Turkey) or Paros (Paros-Choriodaki) (Greece) ?
Mineralogy: calcite
Texture: heteroblastic
Maximum grain size (MGS): 1.98 mm
δ18OV-PDB: -1.72 ‰
δ13CV-PDB: 2.91 ‰
Cathodoluminescence color: blue-purple
Cathodoluminescence intensity: weak
Cathodoluminescence distribution: homogeneous
Stable isotope data fall in a zone where different source areas (i.e. Paros, Thasos, Marmara, Carrara, Hymettus) overlap and the data are inconclusive. However, the blue-purple color of luminescence support Marmara or Paros as the origin of this marble.
D. Decrouez & K. Ramseyer (1998, 2017)
63.6.A; Fragment of a sarcophagus: banquet 
Microfacies under transmitted light. Long side of photograph: 3.3 mm 
Microfacies under polarized light. Long side of photograph: 3.3 mm 
Cathodomicrofacies, exposure time 180 sec. Long side of photograph: 3.3 mm 