Dolomitic marble from Thasos at the Louvre Thomas Calligaro, Yvan Coquinot, Maria Guerra, John Herrmann, Ludovic Laugier, Annewies van den Hoek To cite this version: Thomas Calligaro, Yvan Coquinot, Maria Guerra, John Herrmann, Ludovic Laugier, et al.. Dolomitic marble from Thasos at the Louvre. Open Journal of Archaeometry, PAGEpress, 2013, 1 (1), pp.14. 10.4081/arc.2013.e14. hal-02426586 HAL Id: hal-02426586 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02426586 Submitted on 2 Jan 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Open Journal of Archaeometry 2013; volume 1:e14 Dolomitic marble from Thasos recognize by eye. The whiteness of Thasian dolomitic marble makes it an attractive mate- Correspondence: : John J. Herrmann Jr., Museum at the Louvre rial for sculpture, but its hardness makes it dif- of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA ficult to work. On the Mohs scale, calcite is 02115, USA. Thomas Calligaro,1 Yvan Coquinot,1 rated 3, while dolomite is 3.5-4.0. Similar pure Tel./Fax: +1.617.267.9300. Maria Filomena Guerra,1 white, coarse-grained dolomitic marble suit- E-mail:
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