The Marbles - Area 6 - Cipollino (marmor carystium)
The different stages of making large column shafts are documented in detail at the quarries of Kylindroi near Karystos.
The heavy blocks were exported at different stages of finishing, as shown by some of the pieces on display: the almost completely finished intact shaft (H) illustrates the final stages, carried out by specialized stonecutters at the statio marmorum on Isola Sacra.
Other cylindrical pieces, without mouldings at the ends and lacking the tapering of the shaft, were destined for the production of marble discs to be used in floor decorations.
See also:
- The marbles
- The Marbles - Area 1 - Various white marbles
- The Marbles - Area 2 - Africano (marmor luculleum)
- The Marbles - Area 3 - Africano (marmor luculleum)
- The Marbles - Area 4 - Various white marbles
- The Marbles - Area 5 - Cipollino (marmor carystium)
- The Marbles - Area 6 - Cipollino (marmor carystium)
- The Marbles - Area 7 - Marbles from Via Redipuglia
- The Marbles - Area 8 - Bigio africanato
- The Marbles - Area 9 - Pavonazzetto (marmor phrygium)
- The Marbles - Area 10 - Portasanta (marmor chium)
- The Marbles - Area 11 - Giallo antico (marmor numidicum) and various alabasters
- The Marbles - Area 12 - Egyptian alabaster (lapis onyx)
- The Marbles - Area 13 - Granito troadense (marmor troadensium), bigio di Lesbo (marmor lesbium) and grey granite from the island of Elba
- The Marbles - Area 14 - Breccia dorata, verde antico, fior di pesco, breccia di Sciro, serpentina moschinata, marmo bigio
- The Marbles - Area 15 - Various marbles