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Pentelic
Pentelic Pen*tel"ic, Pentelican Pen*tel"i*can, a.
Of or pertaining to Mount Pentelicus, near Athens, famous for
its fine white marble quarries; obtained from Mount
Pentelicus; as, the Pentelic marble of which the Parthenon is
built.
Meaning of Pentelic from wikipedia
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quality and was used to
construct much of the
Athenian Acropolis. Later,
Pentelic marble was
exported to Rome,
where it was used in
construction and in sculptures...
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quarrymen also knew how to
avoid the faults,
which were
numerous in the
Pentelic marble. If the
marble blocks were not up to standard, the
architects would...
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standard 9:1 or 10:1
ratio in
Ionic buildings.
Constructed from
white Pentelic marble, it was
built in
stages as war-starved
funding allowed. The friezes...
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monumental gate at the
western end of the
Acropolis with
Doric columns of
Pentelic marble,
built partly upon the old
Propylaea of Peisistratos.
These colonnades...
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dates from
around 510 BC. It was
created by
sculptor Aristokles out of
Pentelic marble and
shows traces of polychrome. It was
found at
Velanideza near...
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scheme of
iconographic sculpture. The
central pylon of the
memorial is of
Pentelic marble, and
individual statues are in Lasa
marble and gilt bronze. The...
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library was part of the Stoa of
Hadrian with
columns of
Karystian marble and
Pentelic capitals. The
building followed a
Roman forum architectural style, having...
- Bibcode:2007ApEnM..73..271C. doi:10.1128/AEM.02220-06. PMC 1797126. PMID 17071788.
Pentelic marble Archived 2014-11-14 at the
Wayback Machine,
Britannica Online Encyclopaedia...
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death of Dexileos. The
stele is made out of an
expensive variety of
Pentelic marble and is 1.86
metres (6 ft 1 in) tall. It
includes a high
relief sculpture...
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Adonis Mortal lover of
Aphrodite & ****phone The
Adonis Uffizi, made from
pentelic marble, 2nd
century BC,
currently held in the
Uffizi Gallery, Florence...
