House of the Vettii Sampling Project

J. C. Fant, University of Akron

and Stefano Cancelliere, Lorenzo Lazzarini, M. P. Martinez, Bruno Turi

This web project is based on the final draft text of the article published in L. Lazzarini ed., ASMOSIA VI Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity, Venice June 15-18 2000). Aldo Ausilio - Bottega d'Erasmo Editore (Padova), 2002: 309-316..

Plan of the House of the Vettii garden furniture with links to detailed pictures of furniture

Plan with marble types indicated

Table of sampling results and identifications

Graph plotting values for major ancient quarries in the database

Graphs with elipses plotting Vettii results: samples under 2mm MGS and over 2mm MGS  (MGS = maximum grain size)

Elipses of the fields for Paros 1 lychnites, Paros 2 Chorodaki, and Pentelic

Grant Proposal to the American Philosophical Society (1999)