OUMNH Number: | 745 |
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Name and quarry location: | Sicilian jasper, most probably diaspro di Giuliana, from Sicily, Italy, and most probably from Giuliana, Palermo. |
Geological description: | Brecciated red jasper with rims of opaque white chalcedony. Colourless crystalline quartz matrix is iron-stained and vughy away from clasts. Clasts have colourless quartz-filled fractures. |
Comments: | Comparison with samples in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien suggests this is most probably from Giuliana, Province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Compare also with Montana (1998) pl.170,and with Tata's description (1772) of his first specimen 'Diaspro rosso con macchie marciose contornate bianco', from the 'territoria di Giuliana, e propriamente ne' fuoi giardini'. |
References: | Corsi (1845) 225-226; Jervis (1881) 193-318; Jervis (1889) 449-482; Montana & Briuccia (1998) 79, 116 pl.170; Price (2007) 246-247; Schmidt (2002) |
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Corsi's classification: | Class 14. Quartz and its varieties; Species 6. Jasper; i. Antique jaspers |
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Corsi's text: | 186.3 Diaspro. Jaspis. Diaspro antico |