Site Name / Province / CountryOrigin unknown, now in Jerusalem, Bible Land Museum / Palaestina Prima / Israel
TitleGreek inscription on a reliquary mentioning a marble mason (provenance unknown, now in Jerusalem)
Dating501 - 700 AD
ID2
Site Name / Province / CountryHorvat Beth Shemesh / Palaestina Prima / Israel
TitleTwo Greek inscriptions on floor mosaics from a basilica in the martyr shrine at Horvat Beth Shemesh = Area C, in a valley to the north of the Be’er Nativ well (Bir el-Haj Khalil), mentioning the marble revetment of a chapel
Dating543 - 583 AD
ID9
Site Name / Province / CountryHebron / Palaestina Prima / Israel
TitleGreek inscription mentioning a “head marble mason” and his staff or sons with their wives. Reused in a mosque at Hebron, over the presumed tomb of Abraham. Sixth or seventh century.
Dating501 - 700 AD
ID12
Site Name / Province / CountryTiberias / Palaestina Secunda / Israel
TitleGreek inscription from Tiberias with a prayer on behalf of the marble mason Abramios. Fourth–seventh century.
Dating350 - 700 AD
ID14
Site Name / Province / CountryMaioumas / Palaestina Prima / Israel
TitleGreek inscription from Maioumas near Gaza (now in the Louvre Museum) with a quotation of Psalm 24 (23):1 / 1 Corinthians 10:26, commemorating the revetment with marble plaques of an unspecified building under a deacon. Resued as a corner pillar at a race course. Dated: 540 CE.
Dating540 - 540 AD
ID15
Site Name / Province / CountryBeth She'an (Skythopolis) / Palaestina Prima / Israel
TitleVery fragmentary Greek inscription on a piece of a marble slab from Beth She'an (Skythopolis), probably commemorating a revetment of a building with marble plaques. Fourth–seventh century.
Dating301 - 700 AD
ID16
Site Name / Province / Country'Avdat/Oboda / Palaestina Tertia / Israel
TitleGreek inscription from ‘Avdat/Eboda/Abda recording the revetment with marble plaques of a temple of Aphrodite/Allat. Reused in the late antique structures of the acropolis. Third–fourth century.
Dating201 - 300 AD
ID17
Site Name / Province / CountryElusa / Palaestina Tertia / Israel
TitleGreek inscription on a limestone slab commemorating the laying of a pavement made of marble plaques in front of the theatre in Elusa (Negev Desert). Found at the north doorway of the Nabataean theatre. Dated 454/455 CE.
Dating454 - 455 AD
ID18
Site Name / Province / CountryCaesarea Maritima / Palaestina Prima / Israel
TitleGreek inscription found near the Byzantine Esplanade and the Hadrianeum in Caesarea Maritima, commemorating its restoration by the comes Flavios Euelpidios and the civic official Elias. Carved on the pier of a half-column of grey marble. Fifth or sixth century.
Dating401 - 600 AD
ID19
Site Name / Province / CountryCaesarea Maritima / Palaestina Prima / Israel
TitleGreek inscription commemorating the laying-out of of marble plaques, carved on the top element of a grey marble column from a road to the south of Caesarea Maritima. Certainly displaced. Now lost. Late Antiquity.
Dating401 - 600 AD
ID20
Site Name / Province / CountryBostra / Arabia / Jordan
TitleGreek inscription commemorating the reveting with marble of a portico under the supervision of a governor. Found at Bostra, reused in the Theatre Street, near the South Baths complex. Dated: 517 CE.
Dating517 - 517 AD
ID21
Site Name / Province / CountryUmm al-Jimāl / Arabia / Jordan
TitleVery fragmentary Greek inscription on a piecie of a pillar form Umm al-Jimāl, recording a revetment as a vow. Found near a church outside the east wall (Church no. 24). Now lost. Late Antiquity.
Dating401 - 600 AD
ID22
Site Name / Province / CountryDayr al-Dubban/Deir Debbãne/Deir Dibwan near el-Bara in Syria / Palaestina Prima / Israel
TitleGreek inscription on a rockface, commemorating the paving of a road with (marble?) plaques as a vow of a comes. Found at Dayr al-Dubban/Deir Debbãne/Deir Dibwan. Dated: 563 CE.
Dating563 - 563 AD
ID24
Site Name / Province / CountrySobata/Shivta / Palaestina Tertia / Israel
TitleGreek inscription on stone recording the revetment of a church. Found in the south aisle of the South Church at Sobata. Dated: 639 CE.
Dating639 - 639 AD
ID8
Site Name / Province / CountryNeapolis/Limassol / Cyprus / Cyprus
TitleThe Life of Saint John the Almsgiver by Leontios of Neapolis/Limassol mentions a ritual of the offering of colourful marble to new emperors (at Constantinople) by stonemasons building the emperor’s tomb. Written at Neapolis/Limassol (Cyprus), c.610.
Dating605 - 615 AD
ID25
Site Name / Province / CountryAphrodisias / Caria / Türkiye
TitleGreek inscription with a decisions awarding a civic benefactor with his "second marble image". Found at the Hadrianic Baths at Aphrodisias (Caria). Dated: Sixth century.
Dating501 - 600 AD
ID26
Site Name / Province / CountryAphrodisias / Caria / Türkiye
TitleVery fragmentary Greek verse inscription praising a governor of Caria. Found at Aphrodisias (Caria). Probably from the basilica. Dated: fifth century.
Dating401 - 500 AD
ID27
Site Name / Province / CountryAphrodisias / Caria / Türkiye
TitleGreek verse inscription commemorating the award of a marble statue to a governor of Caria. Found at Aphrodisias, at the South Agora. Dated: 405–414 CE.
Dating405 - 414 AD
ID28
Site Name / Province / CountryAphrodisias / Caria / Türkiye
TitleGreek verse inscription commemorating the award of a marble statue to a governor of Caria. Found at Aphrodisias, probably from the Theatre Baths. Dated: mid-fifth century.
Dating430 - 480 AD
ID29
Site Name / Province / CountryAphrodisias / Caria / Türkiye
TitleGreek verse inscription commemorating the award of a marble statue to a governor of Caria. Found at Aphrodisias, at the Hadrianic Baths. Dated: Sixth century.
Dating501 - 600 AD
ID30
Site Name / Province / CountryEphesos / Asia / Türkiye
TitleGreek verse inscription on a statue base of white marble of probably a governor of Asia, praising his generous donations of marble decorations. Found at the crossing of the Embolos and Marble Street at Ephesos. Dated: Fifth or sixth century.
Dating401 - 600 AD
ID31
Site Name / Province / CountryBlaundos / Lydia / Türkiye
TitlePoorly spelt Greek inscriptions recording a revetment with marble under the supervision of two presbyters. Found at Blaundos (Lydia). Dated: Fifth–sixth century.
Dating501 - 600 AD
ID3
Site Name / Province / CountryMeriamlik (Seleucia) / Syria / Syria
TitleMiracle 17 in the Miracles of Thecla at Meriamlik (Seleucia), mentions the marble revetments at the bema in the shrine of the saint. Done by an injured marble mason of Antioch on the Orontes who made similar decorations at a private estate. Written in the 470s
Dating471 - 480 AD
ID5
Site Name / Province / CountryChalkis / Syria / Syria
TitleJerome in the Life of Paul of Thebes mentions the practice of placing marble decorations at home as a corrupting luxury. Written in c.375, near Chalkis (Syria)
Dating375 - 375 AD
ID10
Site Name / Province / CountryResafa / Euphratensis / Syria
TitleGreek inscription from Basilica A at Resafa/Sergioupolis (Syria/Euphratensis), mentioning the “excellent marble revetments” funded by the bishop Sergios. 580–600 CE.
Dating580 - 600 AD
ID11
Site Name / Province / CountryResafa / Euphratensis / Syria
TitleGreek inscription mentioning the revetment with marble plaques of the floor of Basilica A at Resafa/Sergioupolis (Syria/Euphratensis). Form the north-east annex/pastophorium. 595/596 CE.
Dating595 - 596 AD
ID13
Site Name / Province / CountryResafa / Euphratensis / Syria
TitleGreek inscription on a gypsum plaque, mentioning the revetment of one of the rooms of Basilica A of Resafa almost certainly with marble plaques. Precise location unknown. Dated c.559 CE.
Dating559 - 559 AD
ID23
Site Name / Province / CountryApameia / Syria / Syria
TitleFragmentary Greek inscription on a pavement slab, commemorating a revetment as a vow for the repose of a presbyter. Found at Apameia, at the East cathedral church. Dated: 533 CE.
Dating533 - 533 AD
ID32
Site Name / Province / CountryHypaipa / Lydia / Türkiye
TitleFragment of a large Greek inscriptions making provisions to the city and the city council of Hypaipa (Lydia) for the care of the tomb. Marble statues of the deceased’s son meant to be erected on both sides of the tomb’s doorway are mentioned. Date: 301 CE.
Dating301 - 301 AD
ID33
Site Name / Province / CountryAnkyra / Galatia / Türkiye
TitleGreek inscription commemorating the “marble wall-cladding” of a bath-house at Ankyra (Galatia) by an aristocrat. Dated: probably early fifth century.
Dating401 - 450 AD
ID34
Site Name / Province / CountryAppia / Phrygia / Türkiye
TitleGreek epitaph with a verse inscription recording the erection of a marble stele at the tomb. Found at Appia (Pınarcık-Abya) / Akçaköy (Phrygia). Dated: probably 305–315 CE.
Dating305 - 315 AD
ID35
Site Name / Province / CountrySide / Pamphylia / Türkiye
TitleGreek building inscription commemorating the paving with marble of the floor of the “first synagogue” of Side (Pamphylia) around the pulpit and probably the Torah shrine. Found reused in a house. Dated: Fourth–fifth century or later.
Dating350 - 500 AD
ID36
Site Name / Province / CountryTarsos / Cilicia / Türkiye
TitleGreek inscription, probably from Tarsos (Cilicia), commemorating a revetment with marble as a votive offering. Probably from a church. Dated: fifth or sixth century.
Dating401 - 500 AD
ID37
Site Name / Province / CountrySeleukeia on the Kalykadnos / Cilicia / Türkiye
TitleGreek verse inscription commemorating the restoration of a marble floor and marble decorations funded by Paulina, wife of Fl. Zenon, consul and patricius in 451. Found at Seleukeia on the Kalykadnos (Cilicia). Dated c.451 CE.
Dating450 - 451 AD
ID38
Site Name / Province / CountryAttaleia / Pamphylia / Türkiye
TitleGreek inscription from the wall of a gateway commemorating a restoration of this gateway's marble plaques. Found at Attaleia (Pamphylia). Dated: Fifth or sixth century.
Dating401 - 600 AD
ID40
Site Name / Province / CountrySalamis (Constantia) / Cyprus / Cyprus
TitleGreek inscription commemorating the paving with marble plaques of the floor of a basilica under a governor (?). Found (reused) at the gymnasium of Salamis/Constantia (Cyprus). Dated: 342–361 (restoration of Salamis under Constantius II), reused in the sixth century.
Dating342 - 361 AD
ID41
Site Name / Province / CountrySoli / Cyprus / Cyprus
TitleGreek inscription on a marble slab commemorating the restoration of a hostel probably by an ecclesiastic, with a reference to a punishment for removing architectural elements and (marble?) plaques. Found at Soli, during construction works near the ancient theatre. Dated: Sixth or seventh century.
Dating501 - 700 AD
ID42
Site Name / Province / CountryPanion / Europa / Türkiye
TitleGreek verse inscription on the lid of a tomb beneath the floor of the church of the Entrance of Mary to the Temple at Panion (Thrace), mention a (marble?) plaque of the tomb. Dated: probably eighth or ninth century.
Dating701 - 900 AD
ID43
Site Name / Province / CountryThebai (Boiotia) / Achaea / Greece
TitleGreek verse inscription recording the burial of a man distinguished by a public decree in a marble sarcophagus. The inscription was composed by his son. Found at Thebai (Boioita). Dated: third or fourth century CE.
Dating201 - 400 AD
ID44
Site Name / Province / CountryMegara / Achaea / Greece
TitleGreek inscription from Megara (Achaia) recording a generous donation of one thousand and two hundred feet of marble for the restoration of the bath-house by the comes Diogenes. Dated: c. 457–474 (Leo I) or 474–491 (Zeno).
Dating457 - 491 AD
ID45
Site Name / Province / CountryPhthiotic Thebes / Thessalia / Greece
TitleGreek inscription probably recording a paving with marble of the basilica of bishop Petros at Phthiotic Thebes (Thessalia). Found at the threshold in the stylobate. Dated: Fourth–sixth century.
Dating301 - 600 AD
ID52
Site Name / Province / CountryConstantinople; Thasos / Macedonia / Greece
TitleGregory of Nazianzus in his longest autobiographical poem (De vita sua) tells the story of a presbyter from Thaos sent to Constantinople to purchase plaques of Prokonnesian marble for the construction of a church. Dated: 381–390 (poem).
Dating381 - 390 AD
ID53
Site Name / Province / CountryAntioch on the Orontes / Syria / Türkiye
TitleWriting in Antioch, in March 363 CE, the emperor Julian compares ice floe brought down the river Seine (Gaul) in winter to white marble blocks from Phrygia. Misopogon, or the Beard-Hater 341B.
Dating363 - 363 AD
ID54
Site Name / Province / CountryDaphne, suburb of Antioch / Syria / Syria
TitleIn his Letter 29 (= 80) to his uncle Julian, the emperor Julian mentions a cheap way of providing pillars for the temple of Daphne at Daphne, suburbs of Antioch, by sizing marble for private villas and by using bricks and plaster cased in marble. Dated April 362, written in Constantinople.
Dating362 - 362 AD
ID55
Site Name / Province / CountryAntioch on the Orontes / Syria / Syria
TitleIn his treatise Against the Galileans, the emperor Julian compares the shining of stars to the shining of marble. Written in winter 362 CE, at Antioch on the Orontes.
Dating362 - 362 AD
ID56
Site Name / Province / CountryJerusalem / Palaestina Prima / Israel
TitleIn his Life of Constantine, Eusebius of Caesarea quotes a letter from Constantine to Macarius, bishop of Jerusalem, promising him to provide marble columns of prime quality from all available sources for the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The emperor makes a distinction between local, reused, and imported marble. The letter was written around 325/326.
Dating325 - 326 AD
ID57
Site Name / Province / CountryJerusalem / Palaestina Prima / Israel
TitleIn his Life of Constantine, Eusebius of Caesarea describes marble decorations and revetment plaques of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, funded by Constantine. Written around 339.
Dating339 - 339 AD
ID58
Site Name / Province / CountryJerusalem / Palaestina Prima / Israel
TitleIn his Life of Constantine, Eusebius of Caesarea describes glaring stones used for the decoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, funded by Constantine. Written around 339.
Dating339 - 339 AD
ID59
Site Name / Province / CountryTyre / Phoenicia Prima / Lebanon
TitleIn Book 10 of his Ecclesiastical history, Eusebius of Caesarea includes a "Panegyric on the building of the churches, addressed to Paulinus, bishop of the Tyrians", in which he describes the splendid marble floor of the episcopal basilica at Tyre, composed of different types of marble. Written around 323.
Dating320 - 323 AD
ID60
Site Name / Province / CountryConstantinople / Constantinople / Türkiye
TitleIn a Greek Homily on the Nativity of Jesus BHGa 1914i/k, by an imitator of Leontius, presbyter of Constantinople, houses decorated with marble are mentioned among other examples of extreme luxury. The homily was spuriously attributed to Severian of Gabala. Written in Constantinople, probably sixth or seventh century.