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Ancient Stones - Musivarius - 11-23-2011
This website will be of interest to anyone wanting to find out more about the use of stone in the ancient world. The link is to the website of The Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones In Antiquity (ASMOSIA).
www.asmosia.org
The newsletters are on PDF and contain quite a few references so are worth taking the time to look through.
Re: Ancient Stones - Gaius Julius Caesar - 11-23-2011
Cheers, a subject that I find facinating.I have a book somewhere on the quarrying and use of marble in the construction of the Acropolis in Athens.
Re: Ancient Stones - Musivarius - 11-23-2011
The conference in Rome next year looks very interesting, I'll most probably go along. It's great as I put in down as work expenses
Does that book you have, have much on their stone cutting methods?
Re: Ancient Stones - Gaius Julius Caesar - 11-23-2011
It was full of diagrams on how they quarried the stone, cut it to shape and put it into position, but I Would need to dig it out to answer your question on that point!
Probably more aimed at the tourist market, but when I find it i will let you know how detailed it is!
At the time being new to me it was impressive, but possibly not to someone who knows more on the subject though.
Re: Ancient Stones - Eleatic Guest - 11-23-2011
I think I held one or two monographs of their series in my hands, but none had anything to say on when the practice of slicing marble to plates and covering walls with it began. I know Pliny attributes this technique to classical Greece (Mausolos himself?), but I am certain that as so often archaeology has come up with earlier examples than the written records do.
I find this a highly interesting subject given that this practice continues to this day in churches, mosques and banks and has spread globally.
Re: Ancient Stones - Musivarius - 11-25-2011
I did see a drawing in a book once of 2 Egyptian stone workers using a 2 man saw to slice a block and this was supposed to have come from a tomb painting.
There is also the use of the bow saw with iron wire which is still used now (albeit smaller versions)in Pietra Dura work, the fancy inlay stuff.
Re: Ancient Stones - Gaius Julius Caesar - 11-25-2011
Someone once posted a relief of a water powered saw for slicing stone
On here!
Re: Ancient Stones - Musivarius - 11-28-2011
I'm going to do a search for that, can you remember who it was or where?
Re: Ancient Stones - Gunthamund Hasding - 11-28-2011
well on the sawmill you can find a paper here:
http://www.freundeskreis-roemerkanal.de/Text/BAUTECHNIK%20IM%20ANTIKEN%20UND.pdf page 429 in german
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierapolis_sawmill
and in wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_watermills
Re: Ancient Stones - Musivarius - 11-29-2011
Thanks, that's a really useful reference! I'm constantly surprised about the information that's out there, I think I feel a book coming on :wink:
Re: Ancient Stones - Gaius Julius Caesar - 11-29-2011
Thanks Gunth, I'm afraid I forgot all abouth this.... :roll: :oops:
Re: Ancient Stones - Gunthamund Hasding - 12-03-2011
You welcome glad that I can help you are the ones mostly helping others