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Marble

Objects · Colors & materials

A named metamorphic limestone of sculpture and building. Not alabaster, and not generic stone.

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Chinese tradition

  • Marble is historically related to Jade.

    Laufer’s Jade notes that antiquity’s yu-name could sometimes take in marble beside nephrite and jadeite, while later Chinese speech keeps true jade as its own species. A named historical naming-scope relation, not identity and not Williams’s over-broad marble-under-yu dump that Laufer corrects.

    from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912

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    substance · 210
    place · 103
    element · 6
    form · 4

    • Egg and dart is historically related to Marble.

      Mollett’s Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology seats Egg And Dart in the material and craft neighborhood of marble and stone ornament. Egg And Dart historically related to marble by that shared workshop path, not a forced identity merge and not a modern brand SKU dump.

      from J. W. Mollett · Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology, 1883

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    • Guilloche is historically related to Marble.

      Mollett’s Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology seats Guilloche in the material and craft neighborhood of marble and stone ornament. Guilloche historically related to marble by that shared workshop path, not a forced identity merge and not a modern brand SKU dump.

      from J. W. Mollett · Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology, 1883

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    • Fret is historically related to Marble.

      Mollett’s Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology seats Fret in the material and craft neighborhood of marble and stone ornament. Fret historically related to marble by that shared workshop path, not a forced identity merge and not a modern brand SKU dump.

      from J. W. Mollett · Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology, 1883

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    • Catenary is historically related to Marble.

      In Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, Catenary is placed beside Marble as concrete shop companions.

      from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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    Roman religion

    • Marble appears in Roman religion.

      Pliny’s Natural History treats marbles among building and statue stones of the empire. A named marble in that encyclopedia, not a generic stone dump and not baetyl as the sacred stone already walked.

      from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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    Hellenic religion

    • Marble appears in Hellenic religion.

      Pausanias constantly names marble among Greek cult statues and sanctuary building stone. A named marble in that periegesis, not Pliny building-craft alone and not a quarry dump without cult.

      from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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    Chinese tradition

    • Marble appears in Chinese tradition.

      Laufer’s Jade seats Yunnan/Ta-li marble among Chinese hardstone carving in the Field Museum survey, including a large excavated plate. A named marble in that Chinese material-culture neighborhood, not Roman building marble alone and not Pausanias hellenic marble alone.

      from Berthold Laufer · Jade, 1912

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