Resumen de Archaeometric analyses of white marbles from Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli, Italy) and the use of Pentelic and Dokymaean marbles in the statuary of the so-called Canopus
Patrizio Pensabene, Fabrizio Antonelli, Lorenzo Lazzarini, Stefano Cancelliere
The results of a minero-petrographic and isotopic study carried out on the marbles of statues and architectural elements belonging to several buildings on the Villa Adriana site (the Canopus, the Peristyle Pool Building, the Hall with Doric pillars and the Serapeum) are presented here as part of an ongoing project which considers all the marble decorations of the Villa complex. Analytical data indicate the prevailing presence of marmor lunense and the use of Pentelic and Thasian marbles of architectural elements in a few areas of the Hall with Doric pillars, the Peristyle pool building and the Serapeum. Analysis of sculptures from the Canopus indicated that those of the Tiber and Nile gods were made of Parian marble, the Caryatids and Telamons of Pentelic marble and the Amazons of the white Dokymaean marble
