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Mr Cadell on Antique Marbles^ 
Porta Santa has red veins. 
The Breccia Africarm^ which has dark-coloured blotches and 
veins, is somewhat less frequent. 
Lacedemonian Marble.— The Lacedemonian marble men- 
tioned by Statius and by Lucian, is supposed to be the marble 
now called Verde Antico. But, according to Visconti, the 
Verde Antico was imported from Thessalonica. 
There are columns of Verde Antico in the Lateran, but there 
are no columns of this marble of so large a size as the columns 
of granite, cipollino, marmo Greco, and Giallo Antico. 
Rosso Antico . — The ancient red marble, rosso antico^ of an 
uniform brick-red, occurs in the two marble bathing-chairs, and 
in some busts and statues, but not in large columns. 
Alabaster . — Of alabaster, or carbonate of lime in a stalactiti- 
cal form, and translucid when cut into slabs of moderate thick- 
ness, there is an Egyptian statue at Borne ; and two columns of 
this substance, about twelve feet high, were formerly in the ves- 
tibule of the Vatican library. This stone is called Alabastro 
horito, from the flowery form of its veins. The white alabas- 
ter, of which the small statues are made at Florence, is a diffe- 
rent stone, being composed of sulphate of lime. The Derby- 
shire alabaster, of which there are inlaid columns in the hall at 
Keddlestone, is also sulphate of lime, but not of so pure a white 
as the Florentine. 
Many other kinds of antique marbles, which occur more 
rarely than those above mentioned, are met with in the ruins and 
in the collections of marbles sold by the marble-cutters at Rome, 
Numidian. — Lepidus, in the year 676 of Rome, first em- 
ployed Numidian marble. Numidian marble is mentioned by 
Statius, Juvenal, and Seneca. Some commentators consider 
the Numidian marble to be red porphyry. 
Seneca speaks of the marble of Alexandria ; of the Thasian 
from the island of Thasos, which is situated north of Lemnos 
in the ^gean Sea ; of Egyptian columns^ which, perhaps, are 
granite ; and of African columns. 
Some of the above named marbles are mentioned by Statius, 
and also the white marble of Tyre and of Sydon, green marble 
from the Eu?vtas in Laconia, and Lybian. Some of the above 
kinds and others are also mentioned by Juvenal, Martial, Vo- 
piscLis, and Julius Capitolinus. 
