megarense

Updated: May 22, 2025

Specimens of brocatello may be found in several churches and palaces, forming mouldings, sheathings, and pedestals. The most interesting of the Lumachella marbles is the bianca antica, the Marmor Megarense of the ancients, composed of shells so small as to be scarcely discernible, and so closely compacted that the substance takes a good polish.

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