Lexikon

Marble analysis, 56.75.A

 

Funerary stele with banquet scene

Limestone
Limestone origin: Egypt

 

Microfacies: biomicrite

When the artefact was made in the country of its discovery locality, the importation of this limestone is not realistically as the subsoil of Egypt contains such rocks.

 

D. Decrouez & K. Ramseyer (1997, 2016)