γλυπτά του παρθενώνα also known as the elgin marbles ˈɛlɡɪn are a collection of classical greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sculptor phidias and his assistants.
Ancient green marble from greece.
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The parthenon marbles greek.
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Marble is a rock that consists of calcite caco3 or of the combination of calcite minerals caco3 and dolomite ca mg co3 2 and has been created by the metamorphism of limestones that is of carbonate sedimentary rocks.
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Marble in ancient greece when one thinks of ancient greece the first images that come to mind is probably men and women in togas crowned with green wreaths the trojan war and a parade of gleaming white marble.
Archaeologists in italy have uncovered an ancient marble head that likely represents the greek god dionysus.
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It was from the ancient quarry of alyki thasos that the marble was beginning its journey towards macedonia and the rest of greece rome egypt and persia so as to decorate the palaces and the tombs of kings.
According to greek statistics archaeologists are of the opinion that as much as 75 of all the sculptures created in the aegean islands were made out of the marble from paros.
From time immemorial marble has been a ubiquitous material in the greek lands a vibrant glowing stone first exploited in prehistoric sculpture in the late neolithic era 5300 4500 bc but most visibly in the third millennium bc during the aegean early bronze age.
The word s origin is the ancient greek work marmaros which means shiny stone.