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The Use of Limestones as Construction Materials for the Mosaics of Diocletian’s Palace

The production of the mosaic core of Diocletian’s Palace in Split is attributed to the Salonitan mosaic school-workshop, which has been present in the Roman Province of Dalmatia since the end of the second to the beginning of the seventh century. The former comparative analysis of individual samples of mosaic components and certain decorative motifs, which was executed according to the catalogical model (a globally' accepted scientific method), has proven that thesis. Progress in that research with the goal of continued examination of influence models of the same mosaic workshop, requires a research of utilized materials, in which limestone, marble and dolomite dominate quantitatively. This article displays the results of laboratory processing and comparison of several mosaics’ structural matter in Diocletian’s Palace, which as a broader agenda has the formation of catalogues of used materials and mapping of their distribution inside the Salonitan school- workshop’s area of influence. Such an overview would enable us to determine more precisely the affiliation of a specific mosaic to a school- workshop. Although the remains of the mosaic from the most representative parts of the Palace (such as the imperial bath houses or the Vestibule) are fragmented, that is, in some cases reduced to the smallest workable pieces, it would be interesting to examine if a found material belongs to a preferred influential habitus of a Salonitan workshop, which would increment its high reputation that stands above provincial influence.

mosaic, Salonitan workshop, Diocletian's Palace, material analysis, limestone tesserae

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