Abstract
The white marble from Macael quarries (Almeria, Spain) has been identified in some monuments of the Southern of Spain; the use of other white marble types has also been confirmed. The microchemical identification has been carried out by means a previously described graphical method (Bello and Martin,1991). Fourteen trace elements have been analyzed from both quarry and building material samples by using atomic absorption and flame emission spectrometry in order to apply the enrichment diagrams for trace elements (EDTE) for identification purposes.
Highlights
A major topic in archaeometry is tfie provenance determination of artifacts
All the quarry samples analyzed define the graphical limits of the enrichment diagrams for trace elements (EDTE) plots for the tílacael white marbie, which appear dotted in figure 2 with the corresponding EDTE of the diverse monument samples analyzed
As can to be observed in figure 2, the EDTE of the samples corresponding to Alhambra of Granada, Almería Cathedral and the samples 1, 2, 4 and 5 of the Román Theater of Itálica, are between the EDTE limits defined for the Macael quarries, which indícate those samples are from ¡[/lacael
Summary
Wtien speaking about white marbie, one of the most common building and sculpture stones, the probiem to be solved mostly concerns the origin of the raw material. This Information is used in archaeology to revea! En el siglo XIX, los geólogos confiaban en poder distinguir las diversas canteras de mármoles mediante métodos petrográficos; en 1890, Lepsius (2) identificó la procedencia de más de 400 estatuas clásicas pertenecientes a diversos museos europeos por estos métodos. S. Washington (3) advirtió que asignar la procedencia y correcta asociación de fragmentos de objetos era de mucha mayor complejidad que la asumida por Lepsius. Washington sugirió que eran necesarios unos detallados estudios geológicos, petrográficos y químicos antes de poder asignar correctamente la procedencia de cualquier material
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