pentelic marble

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• Pentelic marble — Pentelic marble, a fine grained white marble much used in ancient Greek sculpture and architecture …   Useful english dictionary

• 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. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Marble — For other uses, see Marble (disambiguation). Marble …   Wikipedia

• marble — marbler, n. /mahr beuhl/, n., adj., v., marbled, marbling. n. 1. metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in… …   Universalium

• Marble — /mahr beuhl/, n. Alice, 1913 90, U.S. tennis player. * * * Granular limestone or dolomite that has recrystallized under the influence of heat, pressure, and aqueous solutions. The main mineral in marble is calcite. Commercially, marble includes… …   Universalium

• pentelic — (ˈ)pen.|telik adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Latin pentelicus, from Greek pentelikos, from Pentelē, area near Athens, Greece + ikos ic : of or from Mount Pentelicus, Greece Pentelic marble …   Useful english dictionary

• marble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. hard, vitreous, unyielding; lifeless, insensible, cold; white, pale, colorless; variegated, particolored, pied, striated, mottled. See color, hardness, insensibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …   English dictionary for students

• Parian marble — For the tablet known as the Parian Marble or Marmor Parium, see Parian Chronicle. Parian marble is a fine grained semitranslucent pure white and entirely flawless marble quarried during the classical era on the Greek island of Paros in the Aegean …   Wikipedia

• Pentelican — 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. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Parthenon — Not to be confused with Pantheon, Rome. For other uses, see Parthenon (disambiguation). Coordinates: 37°58′13″N 23°43′21″E / 37.97025°N 23.72247°E …   Wikipedia

• Lycosura — Archaeological site name = Lycosura, Lykosoura, Lycosoura name local = Λυκόσουρα caption skyline = View SE toward the Temple of Despoina at Lycosoura. country = Greece region = Arkadia elevation = 568 controlling city = Megalopolis peak period =… …   Wikipedia