The parian marble was considered the finest quality in the antiquity.
The parian marble.
It was highly prized by ancient greeks for making sculptures some of the greatest masterpieces of ancient greek sculpture were carved from parian marble including the medici venus and the winged victory of samothrace.
It has reached us in two sections ninety three and thirty three lines long.
Parian marble is a fine grained semi translucent pure white and entirely flawless marble quarried during the classical era on the greek island of paros in the aegean sea.
There is a gap of nineteen years between the sections and the final thirty five years are entirely missing.
Several of the marble tunnels have survived.
It was used for the construction of the acropolis the temple of zeus in olympia the temple of apollo in delphi the temple of apollo epicurus in peloponnese and in almost all the famous temples and sanctuaries.
Parian chronicle also called marmor parium or parian marble document inscribed on marble in the attic greek dialect and containing an outline of greek history from the reign of cecrops legendary king of athens down to the archonship of diognetus at athens 264 263 bc the years are reckoned backward from the archonship of diognetus and further specified by the reigns of kings or the.
Famous statues were also made of parian marble including the.
The parian marble is a monumental inscription written in attic greek on a stele that was originally over two meters tall 1 dating from some time after 264 3 bce.
2 it has reached us in two sections ninety three and thirty three lines long.
There is a gap of nineteen years between the sections.
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The parian marble is a monumental inscription written in attic greek on a stele that was originally over two meters tall dating from some time after 264 3 bce.