OUMNH Number: | 350 |
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Name and quarry location: | Alabastro di Camerino, from Camerino, Ancona, Marches, Italy |
Geological description: | Compact banded travertine composed of very coarse, transparent, to very fine, translucent calcite. |
Comments: | Alabastro di Camerino is listed in Zuccagni-Orlandini's Corografica fisica of 1843, suggesting it was still worked about that time. |
References: | Zuccagni-Orlandini (1843) 565 |
Further information: |
Alabaster-travertine.pdf |
Corsi's classification: | Class 1. Marbles; Section 4. Concretionary marbles; Species 1. Alabasters; ii. Italian alabasters |
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Corsi's text: | 100.17 Alabastro di Camerino |