MODE I. MARBLE. 



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piad; but being of a yellowish tint and coarse 

 grain, it was afterwards supplanted by the marble 

 of Luna, in Etruria, as afterwards by that of Car- 

 rara, in the same vicinity. 



In the great museum at Paris, the Venus de 

 Medici, Diana hunting, Venus leaving the bath, 

 the colossal Minerva, the Juno of the Capitol, the 

 Ariana called Cleopatra, and several others, are 

 of Parian marble. The celebrated Parian tables 

 at Oxford, which have illustrated many points of 

 ancient chronology, are also inscribed upon the 

 same stone. 



Pentelican marble, from the vicinity of Athens*, 

 is white, like the former, but with a finer and more 

 compact grain. It sometimes presents blackish 

 veins from a siderous mixture, and sometimes 

 green veins of the talcous kind, so that it is at 

 Rome called statuary Cipoline. 



Most of the noble monuments of ancient Athens 

 are constructed with this marble ; and several sta- 

 tues are extant, as in the Museum of Paris, a 

 Bacchus in repose, a Jason, a Paris, a tripod of 

 Apollo, &c. &c. f 



The vague name of Greek marble has been 



* Concerning the mines of Attica see Xenophon de Vectigalibus. 



t Brard, 324. Petrini says, ii. p. ix, that the Pentelican, with 

 mica, has grains of chalcedony, as the Carrara has rock crystal : 

 probably. from a mixture of argil. 



Pentelican. 



Greek, 

 so called. 



