grechetto

Updated: May 12, 2025

Very like Pentelic marble, but easily distinguishable, is the Marmor Porinum, the Marmo Grechetto duro of the Italians. It is intermediate in the quality of its grain between Parian and Pentelic marble, being finer than the former and not so fine as the latter.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood