OUMNH Number: | 568 |
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Name and quarry location: | Serpentina 'verde ranocchia', locality unknown |
Geological description: | Strongly-sheared and serpentinised ultramafic rock with abundant veinlets (some en echelon) and grains of oxide mineral within the serpentine, and minor veins of calcite. |
Comments: | This stone is not from Egypt, and is not the stone now known as verde ranocchia |
References: | Corsi (1845) 157-159 |
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Corsi's classification: | Class 7. Serpentines; i. Noble serpentines |
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Corsi's text: | 145.4 Altro verde ranocchia [Marmor ophite. Ofite... Plinio l'assegnò all' Egitto, ma Lucano con maggior precisione dice che si trovata nel Territorio di Tebe]. |