Marble Roman copy after a 5th-century BC Greek original attributed to Polykleitos.

( Marble, Roman copy of the 1st – 2nd century CE )

Venus, c. 125 ; Marble, Roman ; British Museum

Roman roads formed the parish's north-eastern and southern boundaries from Marble Arch: Watling Street ( later Edgware Road ) and the Uxbridge road, known by the 1860s as Bayswater Road.

Marble and bronze portraits of Greek and Roman emperors, collection of antique Greek vases from the 9th to 4th century, B. C.

Marble sawmills also seem to be indicated by the Christian saint Gregory of Nyssa from Anatolia around 370 / 390 AD, demonstrating a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire.

Marble was still being burned for agricultural lime in the Roman Camapgna into the nineteenth century.

( Marble bas relief, Roman copy of the late 1st Century AD.

Past occupation or activity by man is attested by evidence such as the Heatheryburn Bronze Age collection of gold and other objects, now in the British Museum ; altars placed by Roman officers who took hunting trips out from forts in present-day County Durham ; and the use from Norman times onwards of " Frosterley Marble ", a black fossiliferous layer of limestone occurring near that village, as an ornamental material in Durham Cathedral and many other churches and public buildings.

Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from ca.

Head of Apollo, modeled on the Apollo Belvedere ( Marble, Roman copy of ca.

Diameter: 1. 15 m ( the column only ); 3 m ( the base, i. e. the carved Marble fragments labelled as Milliarium Aureum in the Roman Forum ).

Empress Catherine the Great commissioned another copy, known as Marble Bridge, to be set up at the landscape park of Tsarskoye Selo.

After his death in battle during the fall of Constantinople, he became a legendary figure in Greek folklore as the " Marble Emperor " who would awaken and recover the Empire and Constantinople from the Turks.

* The Parian Marble, the earliest extant example of a Greek chronological table

Aldington's poems, Choricos, To a Greek Marble, and Au Vieux Jardin, were in the November issue of Poetry, and H. D.

The Mantineia Marble, dated to the 4th century BC and now exhibited at National Archaeological Museum of Athens depicts the mythical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, with a Greek Pandouris being played by a muse seated on a rock.

Marble from Greek quarries was a valuable commodity.

Marble tombstones inserted in the floor are covered with Greek inscriptions.

Marble plate at the entrance of Volissos showing an excerpt from Herodotus script in ancient Greek on Homer's life.

The Parian Marble ( Marmor Parium ) or Parian Chronicle is a Greek chronological table, covering the years from 1581 BC to 264 BC,

Isa Blagden and Theodosia Garrett Trollope, part East Indian, part Jewish, were models for Miriam in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, while George Mignaty's wife was model for the head of Hiram Powers ' Greek Slave.

Marble bust found in the shrine room, the original of which is in the British Museum.

Marble bust of Antisthenes based on the same original ( British Museum )

Marble Man expanded on the gameplay of the original game by featuring new abilities for the marble such as invisibility and flight, included pinball minigames between sets of levels, and allowed up to three players to traverse isometric courses.

In 1895, the construction of the Harlem River Ship Channel rendered Marble Hill an island bounded by the canal to the south and the original course of the Harlem River to the north.

Like all the original stations on the CLR, Marble Arch was served by lifts to the platforms but the station was reconstructed in the early 1930s to accommodate escalators.

Spuyten Duyvil Creek originally flowed north of Manhattan's Marble Hill, and the completion of the canal to the south turned Marble Hill into an island, until 1914, when the original creekbed was filled in and Marble Hill became physically attached to the Bronx.

The construction of the Harlem River Ship Canal to the south of the neighborhood in 1895 turned Marble Hill into an island, and in 1914, when the original creekbed was filled in, Marble Hill became physically attached to the Bronx, though it remains part of the borough of Manhattan.

The redesign of the building was carried out by the Berlin architect Wilfried Kühn, who moved the entrance back to its place in the cour d ’ honneur, thereby once more freeing up the original line of vision from the main gate of the Lower Belvedere via the Marble Hall to the garden facade of the Upper Belvedere.

The various sections of the original orangeries annexed to the Marble Hall were returned to their original condition and now provide space for the new exhibition rooms.

The The Blue Marble | Blue Marble photograph in its original orientation

The Torque Game Engine was the original technology behind the Tribes series of games, and has been used since to develop countless games on Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii, including GarageGames ' own Marble Blast Ultra which is a best-selling hit on Xbox Live Arcade.

After the original creek bed was filled in, Marble Hill became part of the mainland, although it is still considered part of Manhattan for administrative and political purposes.

Marble votive relief of a chariot race, from Oropos, beginning of the 4th century BCE ( Pergamonmuseum, Berlin.

Marble plate with 6th century AD law regulating payment of customs in the Dardanelles

Marble, 5th century BCE

Marble statue of a helmed hoplite ( 5th century BC ), Archæological Museum of Sparta, Greece

Marble sarcophagus with a relief about the hunt of the Calydonian boar on its main face ( 2nd century AC ), in the Archaeological Museum of Eleusis.

Some found work on farms and ranches, but by the turn of the century many had moved into the Marble Falls area to work in town.

Either side of the Marble Hall, lie the Great Staircase ( 2 ) and the Tapestry Room ( 11 ), which contains a collection of early eighteenth century Mortlake tapestries.

However by the 18th century the " Tyburn Tree " ( near the present-day Marble Arch ), had become the main place for public executions in London.

In the early 19th century, the stone had been quarried in Inwood and Marble Hill to produce both a building material as well as lime mortar.

In the 12th century demand for Purbeck Marble grew once again.

Marble became popular from the early 19th century, though its extra cost limited its appeal.

In addition, some products-like marble quarried into the early 20th century at Marble Mountain, were shipped by Lake barges through both lakes to Sydney, NS for transshipment.

In 2007 the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio presented the first major exhibition devoted to the most celebrated nineteenth century American sculptor, " Hiram Powers: Genius in Marble ".

It was originally formed at the turn of the 20th century by Italian immigrants who came to work at the nearby Marble Cliff Quarry Co.

Little survives from the church of that time save for part of the west wall of the nave, which is late 12th century, and the font which is carved from Purbeck Marble.

The walls of the Marble Hall next to the Ceremonial Hall date back to the 16th century, while the artificial marbeling for the interior wad added around 1840 to match the appearance of the Ceremonial Hall.

Examples of big, old quarries operating for more than a century include the Barre ( VT ) granite quarry, the Georgia Marble quarry at Tate, several of the Carrara ( Italy ) marble quarries, and the Penrhyn ( Wales ) slate quarry.

Around the turn of the century, Webster L. Marble introduced the modern concept of the " hunting knife.