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Other types, such as afyon şeker, afyon bal, afyon beyaz, and afyon gri are more difficult to separate from each other as some of their characteristics overlap.
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We already mentioned the use of afyon seker (sugar white), afyon bal (honey), pavonazetto (purple veined white marble or breccias) and cipollino (a green marble variety from Euboia, Greece) as the main marbles used as wall veneer, but new varieties of stone appear almost every day.
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The stone types used for sham architecture in the Roman Baths are mainly afyon şeker and to a lesser extent cipollino.
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Also pavonazetto, afyon bal and afyon gri were used as sham architecture.
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The most frequently used materials for the opus sectile is afyon şeker and to a lesser extent cipollino, pavonazetto, afyon bal, and a stone type that can possibly be identified as greco scritto.
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Once again the majority of the material consisted of afyon şeker, and to a lesser extent afyon bal, afyon gri, pavonazetto, and kaplan postu.
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Less common Afyon marbles are afyon gri and kaplan postu.
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The most common marbles from Afyon are afyon şeker, afyon bal and afyon menekşe (pavonazetto).
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Without quantification it is already clear that in the room that connects the Kaisersaal with the apodyterium, the amount of afyon şekeris relatively higher than is the case in frigidarium II.
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