Use of estremoz marble sculpture in hispanic late antiquity: the sarcophagi

Abstract

This paper presents the results of the petrographic and cathodoluminescence analyses carried out in the ICAC (Tarragona) on different Spanish examples: the Apostles sarcophagus of Pueblanueva and the Jonah sarcophagus from Carranque (province of Toledo), the Ithacius sarcophagus at the Oviedo Cathedral and the Gijón reliefs from the Revillagigedo Palace. The analyses carried out (petrography (optical transmitted light microscopy -OM-), cathodoluminescence -CL- and Mass Spectrometry Isotopic Relations -IRMS-), demonstrate that they were made in Estremoz marble.