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LOT 0777
Historic Spartan Basalt Cut and Polished Dark Green Porphyry Fragment Group
2 3/4 - 12 in. (2.1 kg total, 7 - 30.5 cm).
Mined in Greece, four irregular fragments cut and polished on one side, probably recycled material mined in ancient Roman times. [4]
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market since the 1990s.
From the private collection of a Somerset gentleman.
Footnotes
Also known as Lapis Lacedaemonius and Porfido Verde Antico, a type of green porphyry quarried in Greece. Spartan basalt is a form of andesite or volcanic rock known today only from a single source in the village of Krokees on the Peloponnese in Greece. In addition, ancient sources mention a quarry of Lapis Lacedaemonius in Taygetus.
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LOT 0777
Historic Spartan Basalt Cut and Polished Dark Green Porphyry Fragment Group
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