The quarries at Luni in the 1st century AD: final considerations on some aspects of production, diffusion and costs

Patrizio Pensabene ^[1]
1. [1] Università de Roma La Sapienza
  
  Università de Roma La Sapienza
  
  Roma Capitale, Italia
Localización: Interdisciplinary studies on ancient stone: proceedings of the IX Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA) Conference (Tarragona 2009) / coord. por Anna Gutiérrez García-Moreno, María Pilar Lapuente Mercadal, Isabel Rodà de Llanza, 2012, ISBN 978-84-939033-8-1, págs. 731-743
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- My paper will highlight the importance of Luni marble in the architectural and sculptural programmes of the Western Roman Empire with reference to the modes of exploitation of the quarries, to their juridical status and to the local production of semi-worked sculptural and architectural artefacts for export. I shall also take into consideration the labour organization in the sites where Luni marble pieces would arrive through a further examination of some inscriptions in Rome mentioning marble workshops and of some hallmarks on products in Luni marble found in Rome, Cartagena and Merida for Spain, Cherchel for Africa. At Julio-Claudian times, it was not possible to farther delay the need to distinguish between the Luni marbles -and not only- destined for the monumental buildings in Rome clearly promoted by the emperor (private patronage built the last temples at the beginning of the Augustan age and then disappeared) and for which the imperial administration would bear only the costs for mining, transport and installation, and the marbles destined instead for the Italian or provincial cities whose costs would have been directly born by the local elites or city governments with the exceptions of very few imperial donations mostly limited to the Augustan age and of cities founded directly by the emperors.