Walter Prochaska
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 109774 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Walter Prochaska |
| NOMBRES | Walter |
| APELLIDO | Prochaska |
| FIRMA | PROCHASKA W |
| AFILIACIONES | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3047-2976 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Marble for the Emperor—The Cover Slab of the Sarcophagus of Otto the Great in Magdeburg Cathedral, Germany
As part of a fundamental and comprehensive monitoring and conservation of the tomb of Emperor Otto the Great in the cathedral of Magdeburg, the question of the provenance of the marble cover slab of the sarcophagus was investigated. Within the restoration activities, two samples of the slab were taken for scientific provenance analyses, one sample of the white marble and another of the irregular grey bands. The following investigations were used …
White Marble Votive Reliefs from Pautalia in Roman Thrace and Their Role in Eastern Provincial Connectivity
This study presents the results of an archaeometric investigation of white marble votive reliefs from the Roman city of Pautalia (modern Kyustendil, Bulgaria), with the aim of clarifying patterns of material selection, production, and connectivity within the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. Although these votive monuments, primarily dated to the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, have long been examined from stylistic, iconographic, and epigraphic p…
From quarry to code
First comprehensive provenance study of white marble from inland Roman Thrace (Chatalka region). • Integrated multi-proxy analyses ensure robust and reliable marble provenancing. • Berkovitsa, Asenovgrad, Armira and Kamilski Dol identified as key regional marble sources. • Local Thracian marble dominated architectural, sculptural and votive production. • Selective use of imported Prokonnesian marble reflects elite and symbolic choices. This paper…
Marble Extraction and its Industry
Through an analysis of the tool marks, imprints on the parent rock, unfinished objects, and the waste left behind, quarries provide a wealth of information about the organisation, manufacturing process, transportation, and the broader stone trade and production they supported. Adopting an intra-cross-craft approach, scholars studying stone craft can gain a deeper understanding of the various stages of production, starting at the primary level of …
Innovative archiving of raw materials
New evidence of the supra-regional marble trade network in Thrace, through the archaeometric study of sculptures in Roman Philippopolis
Scientific investigation on the provenance of marble of free-standing sculptures from the archaeological museum of Kavala/northern Greece
A contribution to the urbanization and marble supply of Roman Thrace
The study of marble trade in antiquity has received a lot of scholarly attention in the last few decades; however, numerous deposits of high-quality white marble in the Thracian interior have only recently become pivotal in Bulgaria. Following the establishment of Thrace as a Roman province, investments into transport infrastructure, urban and rural construction works and monumentalizing architecture in marble have led to an increased demand for …
The Ornamental white marble use and reuse at the Ottoman palaces of Algiers' Regency
Meter reliefs from Ephesos and the Obizzi Collection (KHM Wien). Archaeometric considerations on the production and trade of small-format marble objects in the Greek world
The challenge of a successful discrimination of ancient marbles (part IV)
The challenge of a successful discrimination of ancient marbles (part III)
Geochemical and petrographic investigation of the provenance of white marble decorative elements from the Roman Villa Armira in south-eastern Bulgaria
The paper presents evidence of Roman marble production in the Balkan region, specifically from the south-eastern Rhodope Mountain area (modern Bulgaria) and Armira. Although the Roman marble trade and production in antiquity are well known in Prokonnesos, Thasos, and several other production sites, marble deposits from inland Thrace have received far less attention. In 2018-2019, a systematic survey of south-eastern Bulgaria (Roman Thrace) was ca…
The marbles of the basilica of Ascalon
This paper presents the research conducted on the origin of the white marble architecture of the basilica of Ascalon (Israel). The basilica is located in the civic centre of the Roman city of Ascalon and it is one of the relatively few known monumental buildings of Roman Palestine. The various construction phases of the basilica are dated from the first century BC to the third century AD. As Israel has no sources of marble, this paper explores th…
The challenge of a successful discrimination of ancient marbles (part I)
The challenge of a successful discrimination of ancient marbles (part II)
Innovative application of portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) to identify Göktepe white marble artifacts
Ancient ‘Black’ Decorative Stones and the Ephesian Origin of Sculptural bigio antico
Isotopic, EPR and petrographic studies aimed at establishing the provenance of sculptural bigio antico are reported, including 18 possible quarry sites and 21 ancient sculptures. The results demonstrate that the Belevi quarry, north-east of Ephesos, above the more famous white marble quarry, was the major source of this marble. Nineteen artefacts belong to Belevi, whereas the precise origin of the remaining two is unknown, but must probably be fo…
A Multi‐Method Database of the Black and White Marbles of G öktepe (Aphrodisias), Including Isotopic, EPR , Trace and Petrographic Data
A database of the ancient marbles of G öktepe near Aphrodisias is reported, and includes 160 white, black and bichrome samples from 13 quarries and two waste deposits. The quarries are grouped into four districts. Districts 1 and 2, to the north, produced exclusively black or dark grey marbles ( nero antico ). Districts 3 and 4 produced white statuary marble. Nero antico and a black and white stone were also quarried in district 4, where the blac…
The Docimium Marble Sculptures of the Grotto of Tiberius at Sperlonga
Seventeen marble samples drawn from the Scylla, Polyphemos, and Pasquino Groups, the Theft of the Palladium statue group, and the Ganymede statue discovered at Sperlonga in 1957 were investigated scientifically and proved to be all Docimium marble from the quarries of İscehisar near Afyon. New quarry data now available for the lithos lartios of Rhodes and for the white marble of the island of Kos and the quarries of Göktepe near Aphrodisias allow…
The history of the "Virgin with Child" sculpture (Ottaviano, Naples, southern Italy)
Bronze Age höyüks, Iron Age hilltop forts, Roman poleis and Byzantine pilgrimage in Germia and its vicinity. ‘Connectivity’ and a lack of ‘definite places’ on the central Anatolian high plateau
Germia was a well-connected Byzantine polis in western-central Anatolia, famous for its healing waters and a church of St Michael. After three years of survey the site can now be reconstructed: it included several other churches and monasteries, but little space for ordinary residential buildings. This comes as a surprise, but can be explained by the discovery of two older Roman cities within walking-distance of Germia, where the ordinary people …
The Asiatic marbles of the Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli
A Sculptural Marble of Prime Quality in Antiquity—the Dolomitic Marble of the Sivec Mountains in Macedonia
This paper presents analytical data on a major occurrence of fine‐grained dolomitic marble in the Sivec Mountains, close to the city of Prilep in today's former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia. This is the first presentation of an analytical database of a large‐scale source of fine‐grained dolomitic marble, whose ancient use can be demonstrated by tool marks and archaeological evidence. Many traces of ancient mining have fallen victim to a big …
Aphrodisian Marble From the Göktepe Quarries
The marble of seven under-lifesize sculptures of barbarians, now in the archaeological museums of Naples, Venice and the Vatican, commonly considered to be Roman copies of the Pergamene Lesser Dedication in Athens, comes from the Göktepe marble quarries near Aphrodisias, as is shown by isotopic, electron paramagnetic resonance, trace analyses, and of petrographic data. Since this marble was used mostly by Aphrodisian artists, this finding confirm…
A Multi‐Method Database of the Black and White Marbles of G öktepe (Aphrodisias), Including Isotopic, EPR , Trace and Petrographic Data
A database of the ancient marbles of G öktepe near Aphrodisias is reported, and includes 160 white, black and bichrome samples from 13 quarries and two waste deposits. The quarries are grouped into four districts. Districts 1 and 2, to the north, produced exclusively black or dark grey marbles ( nero antico ). Districts 3 and 4 produced white statuary marble. Nero antico and a black and white stone were also quarried in district 4, where the blac…
A New Method for the Determination of the Provenance of White Marbles by Chemical Analysis of Inclusion Fluids
A new method is presented in this paper to pinpoint the origin of white marbles using the chemical analysis of fluids occurring as micro‐inclusions in calcitic or dolomitic marbles. Beside the conventional methods usually applied for this purpose, the analyses of significant anions and cations in fluids extracted from white marbles were used to characterize different types of marbles. Using this new approach it is possible to distinguish differen…
Innovative application of portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) to identify Göktepe white marble artifacts
The Asiatic marbles of the Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli
A Sculptural Marble of Prime Quality in Antiquity—the Dolomitic Marble of the Sivec Mountains in Macedonia
This paper presents analytical data on a major occurrence of fine‐grained dolomitic marble in the Sivec Mountains, close to the city of Prilep in today's former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia. This is the first presentation of an analytical database of a large‐scale source of fine‐grained dolomitic marble, whose ancient use can be demonstrated by tool marks and archaeological evidence. Many traces of ancient mining have fallen victim to a big …
Geochemical and petrographic investigation of the provenance of white marble decorative elements from the Roman Villa Armira in south-eastern Bulgaria
The paper presents evidence of Roman marble production in the Balkan region, specifically from the south-eastern Rhodope Mountain area (modern Bulgaria) and Armira. Although the Roman marble trade and production in antiquity are well known in Prokonnesos, Thasos, and several other production sites, marble deposits from inland Thrace have received far less attention. In 2018-2019, a systematic survey of south-eastern Bulgaria (Roman Thrace) was ca…
The challenge of a successful discrimination of ancient marbles (part I)
The Docimium Marble Sculptures of the Grotto of Tiberius at Sperlonga
Seventeen marble samples drawn from the Scylla, Polyphemos, and Pasquino Groups, the Theft of the Palladium statue group, and the Ganymede statue discovered at Sperlonga in 1957 were investigated scientifically and proved to be all Docimium marble from the quarries of İscehisar near Afyon. New quarry data now available for the lithos lartios of Rhodes and for the white marble of the island of Kos and the quarries of Göktepe near Aphrodisias allow…
A contribution to the urbanization and marble supply of Roman Thrace
The study of marble trade in antiquity has received a lot of scholarly attention in the last few decades; however, numerous deposits of high-quality white marble in the Thracian interior have only recently become pivotal in Bulgaria. Following the establishment of Thrace as a Roman province, investments into transport infrastructure, urban and rural construction works and monumentalizing architecture in marble have led to an increased demand for …
The Docimian Marble of the Ludovisi and Capitoline Gauls and Other Replicas of the Pergamene Dedications
Scientific analysis proves that the marble used in four ancient sculptures related to the Attalid dedication in Pergamon (i.e., the Dying or Capitoline Gaul, the Suicidal or Ludovisi Gaul, the head of a Persian, and the head of a Greek) is white Docimian marble. A fifth sculpture related to the Lesser Dedication in Athens (i.e., the mounted Amazon killing a barbarian now in the Palazzo Massimo in Rome) is carved from Carrara marble. To identify t…
The challenge of a successful discrimination of ancient marbles (part III)
Aphrodisian Marble From the Göktepe Quarries
The marble of seven under-lifesize sculptures of barbarians, now in the archaeological museums of Naples, Venice and the Vatican, commonly considered to be Roman copies of the Pergamene Lesser Dedication in Athens, comes from the Göktepe marble quarries near Aphrodisias, as is shown by isotopic, electron paramagnetic resonance, trace analyses, and of petrographic data. Since this marble was used mostly by Aphrodisian artists, this finding confirm…
The marbles of the basilica of Ascalon
This paper presents the research conducted on the origin of the white marble architecture of the basilica of Ascalon (Israel). The basilica is located in the civic centre of the Roman city of Ascalon and it is one of the relatively few known monumental buildings of Roman Palestine. The various construction phases of the basilica are dated from the first century BC to the third century AD. As Israel has no sources of marble, this paper explores th…
Scientific investigation on the provenance of marble of free-standing sculptures from the archaeological museum of Kavala/northern Greece
The challenge of a successful discrimination of ancient marbles (part IV)
The challenge of a successful discrimination of ancient marbles (part II)
Ancient ‘Black’ Decorative Stones and the Ephesian Origin of Sculptural bigio antico
Isotopic, EPR and petrographic studies aimed at establishing the provenance of sculptural bigio antico are reported, including 18 possible quarry sites and 21 ancient sculptures. The results demonstrate that the Belevi quarry, north-east of Ephesos, above the more famous white marble quarry, was the major source of this marble. Nineteen artefacts belong to Belevi, whereas the precise origin of the remaining two is unknown, but must probably be fo…
Le marbre en Bulgarie à la période byzantine
Cet article fournit les principaux résultats de la mission effectuée en mai 2011 dans le cadre du projet concernant la sculpture architecturale byzantine de la côte occidentale de la mer Noire. La première partie présente et décrit les ensembles architecturaux d’où proviennent les sculptures sur lesquelles ont été prélevés des échantillons de marbre. La seconde partie a trait aux caractéristiques spécifiques des marbres analysés : vingt échantill…
A New Method for the Determination of the Provenance of White Marbles by Chemical Analysis of Inclusion Fluids
A new method is presented in this paper to pinpoint the origin of white marbles using the chemical analysis of fluids occurring as micro‐inclusions in calcitic or dolomitic marbles. Beside the conventional methods usually applied for this purpose, the analyses of significant anions and cations in fluids extracted from white marbles were used to characterize different types of marbles. Using this new approach it is possible to distinguish differen…
Le marbre en Bulgarie à la période byzantine
Cet article fournit les principaux résultats de la mission effectuée en mai 2011 dans le cadre du projet concernant la sculpture architecturale byzantine de la côte occidentale de la mer Noire. La première partie présente et décrit les ensembles architecturaux d’où proviennent les sculptures sur lesquelles ont été prélevés des échantillons de marbre. La seconde partie a trait aux caractéristiques spécifiques des marbres analysés : vingt échantill…
The Docimian Marble of the Ludovisi and Capitoline Gauls and Other Replicas of the Pergamene Dedications
Scientific analysis proves that the marble used in four ancient sculptures related to the Attalid dedication in Pergamon (i.e., the Dying or Capitoline Gaul, the Suicidal or Ludovisi Gaul, the head of a Persian, and the head of a Greek) is white Docimian marble. A fifth sculpture related to the Lesser Dedication in Athens (i.e., the mounted Amazon killing a barbarian now in the Palazzo Massimo in Rome) is carved from Carrara marble. To identify t…
Aphrodisian Marble From the Göktepe Quarries
The marble of seven under-lifesize sculptures of barbarians, now in the archaeological museums of Naples, Venice and the Vatican, commonly considered to be Roman copies of the Pergamene Lesser Dedication in Athens, comes from the Göktepe marble quarries near Aphrodisias, as is shown by isotopic, electron paramagnetic resonance, trace analyses, and of petrographic data. Since this marble was used mostly by Aphrodisian artists, this finding confirm…
Bronze Age höyüks, Iron Age hilltop forts, Roman poleis and Byzantine pilgrimage in Germia and its vicinity. ‘Connectivity’ and a lack of ‘definite places’ on the central Anatolian high plateau
Germia was a well-connected Byzantine polis in western-central Anatolia, famous for its healing waters and a church of St Michael. After three years of survey the site can now be reconstructed: it included several other churches and monasteries, but little space for ordinary residential buildings. This comes as a surprise, but can be explained by the discovery of two older Roman cities within walking-distance of Germia, where the ordinary people …
The Asiatic marbles of the Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli
A Sculptural Marble of Prime Quality in Antiquity—the Dolomitic Marble of the Sivec Mountains in Macedonia
This paper presents analytical data on a major occurrence of fine‐grained dolomitic marble in the Sivec Mountains, close to the city of Prilep in today's former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia. This is the first presentation of an analytical database of a large‐scale source of fine‐grained dolomitic marble, whose ancient use can be demonstrated by tool marks and archaeological evidence. Many traces of ancient mining have fallen victim to a big …
The history of the "Virgin with Child" sculpture (Ottaviano, Naples, southern Italy)
A Multi‐Method Database of the Black and White Marbles of G öktepe (Aphrodisias), Including Isotopic, EPR , Trace and Petrographic Data
A database of the ancient marbles of G öktepe near Aphrodisias is reported, and includes 160 white, black and bichrome samples from 13 quarries and two waste deposits. The quarries are grouped into four districts. Districts 1 and 2, to the north, produced exclusively black or dark grey marbles ( nero antico ). Districts 3 and 4 produced white statuary marble. Nero antico and a black and white stone were also quarried in district 4, where the blac…
The Docimium Marble Sculptures of the Grotto of Tiberius at Sperlonga
Seventeen marble samples drawn from the Scylla, Polyphemos, and Pasquino Groups, the Theft of the Palladium statue group, and the Ganymede statue discovered at Sperlonga in 1957 were investigated scientifically and proved to be all Docimium marble from the quarries of İscehisar near Afyon. New quarry data now available for the lithos lartios of Rhodes and for the white marble of the island of Kos and the quarries of Göktepe near Aphrodisias allow…
Ancient ‘Black’ Decorative Stones and the Ephesian Origin of Sculptural bigio antico
Isotopic, EPR and petrographic studies aimed at establishing the provenance of sculptural bigio antico are reported, including 18 possible quarry sites and 21 ancient sculptures. The results demonstrate that the Belevi quarry, north-east of Ephesos, above the more famous white marble quarry, was the major source of this marble. Nineteen artefacts belong to Belevi, whereas the precise origin of the remaining two is unknown, but must probably be fo…
Innovative application of portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) to identify Göktepe white marble artifacts
The challenge of a successful discrimination of ancient marbles (part I)
The challenge of a successful discrimination of ancient marbles (part II)
The challenge of a successful discrimination of ancient marbles (part III)
Geochemical and petrographic investigation of the provenance of white marble decorative elements from the Roman Villa Armira in south-eastern Bulgaria
The paper presents evidence of Roman marble production in the Balkan region, specifically from the south-eastern Rhodope Mountain area (modern Bulgaria) and Armira. Although the Roman marble trade and production in antiquity are well known in Prokonnesos, Thasos, and several other production sites, marble deposits from inland Thrace have received far less attention. In 2018-2019, a systematic survey of south-eastern Bulgaria (Roman Thrace) was ca…
The marbles of the basilica of Ascalon
This paper presents the research conducted on the origin of the white marble architecture of the basilica of Ascalon (Israel). The basilica is located in the civic centre of the Roman city of Ascalon and it is one of the relatively few known monumental buildings of Roman Palestine. The various construction phases of the basilica are dated from the first century BC to the third century AD. As Israel has no sources of marble, this paper explores th…
Meter reliefs from Ephesos and the Obizzi Collection (KHM Wien). Archaeometric considerations on the production and trade of small-format marble objects in the Greek world
The challenge of a successful discrimination of ancient marbles (part IV)
New evidence of the supra-regional marble trade network in Thrace, through the archaeometric study of sculptures in Roman Philippopolis
Scientific investigation on the provenance of marble of free-standing sculptures from the archaeological museum of Kavala/northern Greece
A contribution to the urbanization and marble supply of Roman Thrace
The study of marble trade in antiquity has received a lot of scholarly attention in the last few decades; however, numerous deposits of high-quality white marble in the Thracian interior have only recently become pivotal in Bulgaria. Following the establishment of Thrace as a Roman province, investments into transport infrastructure, urban and rural construction works and monumentalizing architecture in marble have led to an increased demand for …
The Ornamental white marble use and reuse at the Ottoman palaces of Algiers' Regency
Marble Extraction and its Industry
Through an analysis of the tool marks, imprints on the parent rock, unfinished objects, and the waste left behind, quarries provide a wealth of information about the organisation, manufacturing process, transportation, and the broader stone trade and production they supported. Adopting an intra-cross-craft approach, scholars studying stone craft can gain a deeper understanding of the various stages of production, starting at the primary level of …
Innovative archiving of raw materials
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