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  • adjective Of or relating to Mount Pentelicus (Penteliko Mountain), near Athens, famous for its fine white marble quarries.

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Examples

  • Nor was it Agoracritus, putative head of the sizable Parthenon workshop that carved tons of white Pentelic marble into numerous fully dimensional figures for the two triangular pediments; ninety-two high-relief panels, called metopes, for the frieze above the oblong structure's peripheral colonnade; and the bas-relief that wrapped like a ribbon around the exterior of Athena's inner sanctum and depicted the Panathenaic Procession (the citizenry's celebration of their divine protector's birthday).

    Grading the New Acropolis Filler, Martin 2009

  • (They are being replaced with facsimiles made from the same Pentelic marble as the originals.)

    Grading the New Acropolis Filler, Martin 2009

  • Made of Pentelic marble — the same stone used for the structures on the Acropolis — the sarcophagus tells a story on each of its four sides.

    Who’s in the Alexander Sarcophagus? 2009

  • 'The roof is of Athenian Pentelic marble, drained in rainstorms through over one hundred marble waterspouts in the form of lions' heads.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • Statues were imported wholesale from Greece to adorn temples and theatres, constructed after the models of Greek architecture, with pillars, friezes, and floors of precious Pentelic and Sicilian marble.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • Time has dealt very hardly with them, battering their shapely columns and rich Corinthian capitals, and discolouring their pure white Pentelic marble.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • The inner one of three courses, as well as the whole superstructure, is formed of Pentelic marble of a compact crystalline structure and of dazzling whiteness.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

  • It is intermediate in the quality of its grain between Parian and Pentelic marble, being finer than the former and not so fine as the latter.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • From Parian and Pentelic marble, Lunar marble, as already mentioned, can be easily distinguished by the less brilliant sparkle of its crystal facets, as shown by a fresh surface, and also by its more soapy-white colour.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • Very like Pentelic marble, but easily distinguishable, is the Marmor

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

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