ipsario

Updated: July 19, 2025

The marble dug from the rocky sides of Mount Ipsario a romantic hill thickly covered with fir trees, and rising three thousand four hundred and twenty-eight feet above the sea enjoyed considerable reputation among the ancients. In Rome it must have been very common, if the name of Thasian is to be given to all the fragments of nondescript dusky white marble which are found among the ruins.

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