DOMAIN V. CALCAREOUS. 



of Agnppa (formerly in the Pantheon), the Anti- 

 nous, Indian Bacchus, and other exquisite remains, 

 surpasses in beauty all the other marbles, is the 

 celebrated Augusteum and Tiberianum of Pliny. 



1. It is allowed that this marble was from 

 Egypt ; and, even in the time of Pliny, was care- 

 fully distinguished from porphyry, which came 

 from the same country. 



2. It was natural to give the imperial name to 

 the imperial colour, which was red, as is known to 

 every classical reader, and the very name of por- 

 phyry evinces. Our purple is the purpura vio- 

 lacea, or violet purple of the ancients. 



3. The other colours were celebrated before. 

 The black was called Lucullean, from Lucullus, 

 as Pliny says. The green of Laconia, the yellow 

 of Numidia, were all well known : and red was 

 the only new colour of marble. Boot supposes 

 that the Augusteum was ciiiereum 7 of an ash grey, 

 because it is ranked with ophite : but several well- 

 known Greek and Italian marbles uere of this 

 very common colour. 



4. The rosso antico alone presents the singu- 

 larity mentioned by Pliny, and which he conveys, 

 as usual, in the most chosen and emphatic Ian- 



Tiber ianum SPA us A non cojivoluta CA- 

 For the ancient red is often sprinkled 



* Edit. Brotier. Som erroneously omit the non. 



