Floor Mosaics From the Territory of Roman Province Moesia

Urbánková, Radka

doi:10.2478/tvsb-2013-0023

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“…The identity of the owners of the Roman villa who lived here between the first and second centuries remains unknown; however, a mosaic floor portrait might show a patron with his children (Urbankova 2013). Scholars have assumed that the foundation of the complex can be attributed to a member of the Thracian aristocracy, whose tumulus burial place was not far from the villa (Kabakchieva 2008(Kabakchieva , 2010.…”

Section: The Architecture Of the Villa And Its Reconstructionmentioning

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Geochemical and petrographic investigation of the provenance of white marble decorative elements from the Roman Villa Armira in south-eastern Bulgaria

Anevlavi

Prochaska

Cenati³

et al. 2022

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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The paper presents evidence of Roman marble production in the Balkan region, specifically from the south-eastern Rhodope Mountain area (modern Bulgaria) and Armira. Although the Roman marble trade and production in antiquity are well known in Prokonnesos, Thasos, and several other production sites, marble deposits from inland Thrace have received far less attention. In 2018–2019, a systematic survey of south-eastern Bulgaria (Roman Thrace) was carried out by our team in collaboration with the National Archaeological Institute with Museum in Bulgaria. White marble quarries and outcrops were investigated in situ with the goal of characterizing the macroscopic qualities of the stone. Quarry samples were collected and analyzed through various techniques—petrography, isotopic, and chemical analyses—and compared with the architectural decorative marble and artifacts from the Roman villa at Armira. We demonstrate that the geochemical and petrographic features of these samples indicate a marble provenance restricted to a few selected sources. We conclude that the local marble from the Armira and Kamilski Dol quarries was widely used for the complete architectural program of the Roman villa of Armira.

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Section: The Architecture Of the Villa And Its Reconstructionmentioning

confidence: 99%