Naslov
The use of limestone and marble as mosaic material of Diocletian’s palace

Autori
Matulić, Branko ; Bosnić, Krešimir ; Mudronja, Domagoj

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
XI. International Conference Association for the Study of Marble & Other Stones In Antiquity (ASMOSIA XI) : abstracts / - , 2015

Skup
International Conference Association for the Study of Marble & Other Stones In Antiquity (11 ; 2015)

Mjesto i datum
Split, Hrvatska, 18.05.2015. - 22.05.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

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

Sažetak
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.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Geologija, Povijest umjetnosti, Arheologija

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