porine

Updated: February 13, 2026

Not unlike this Porine marble was the Marmor Hymettium of the ancients; but it was never a great favourite in Rome on account of its large grain and dingy white colour, slightly tinged with green and marked by long parallel dark gray veins of unequal breadth.

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