| OUMNH Number: |
144
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| Name and quarry location: |
Cipollino nero, most probably from Mili, Karystos, Euboea, Central Greece
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| Geological description: |
Banded marble (metamorphosed impure limestone). Fine-grained grey layers have a shape fabric calcite which appears axial-planar to folded layering. Fabric is probably a lineation, although, on specimen edge, the grains are equant.
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| Comments: |
Most probably a grey cipollino, a less common variety of cipollino that was obtained from Mili, near Karistos, from where cipollino verde was also obtained.
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| References: |
Corsi (1845) 97-99; Higgins (1996) 86-87; Lazzarini (1995); Mielsch (1985) 58, taf.17; Price (2007) 75
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