A Small piece of marmor rubrum, Rosso antico

Object Status:

Unlocated

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 26v

Notes:

Both of these terms seem to be synonymous with porphyry, or red marble, much used for sculpture and as a building material in the Classical world, as noted by Thomas Nichols in A Lapidary, or, The History of Pretious Stones (Cambridge, Eng., 1652).