Grand Antique marble
A prestigious Roman marble quarried in France, used in Hagia Sophia.
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Coordinates: 42°57′43″N 1°05′31″E (42.9620, 1.0920) · Open in OpenStreetMap
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Grand Antique marble, also known as Celtic marble, Grand Antique of Aubert, and in Roman times as Marmor Aquitanicum, is a prestigious marble composed of clasts of black limestone and white calcite. It was quarried near Aubert-Moulis in France from a fault breccia formed at the end of the Cretaceous period. First quarried by the Romans in the third or fourth century, it was exported to Rome and Constantinople for decorative columns and used for panels in Hagia Sophia.
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