Material · Whites
Marmara White
Marmara Beyazı · Balıkesir
The marble that named the sea.
A white with straight, decided grey banding, quarried on Marmara Island. The quarry has worked — with interruptions — for more than two thousand years: this is the Proconnesian marble of Roman and Byzantine columns. For an Italian client it is the easiest Turkish stone to explain, because its history is the same as that of the monuments down the road.
Typical uses
Columns and solid elements, flooring, restoration, exterior work.
Historical note
Used for the columns of Hagia Sophia and shipped across the Roman Mediterranean as marmor proconnesium.
Supply
- Squared blocks
- Squared at the quarry, indicative 250–310 × 130–190 × 130–200 cm
- As-quarried blocks
- Unsquared, lower yield and lower price
- Grade
- First choice, commercial or standard, agreed before the block is committed
- Documentation
- Photographs and video of every block at the quarry, numbered against the packing list
Sizes vary from quarry to quarry. The true cubic measure of each block is on the packing list.
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