Ce volume comprend les textes des communications d'ASMOSIA VII, 7e conférence internationale de l'Association pour l'étude du marbre et des autres pierres dans l'Antiquité (Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity), qui s'est tenue dans l'île de Thasos, en Grèce. Les thèmes abordés dans ces communications sont à la pointe du domaine interdisciplinaire où se rejoignent la science, l'archéologie et l'histoire de l'art ; ils reflètent un large spectre de la recherche sur les pierres, depuis la carrière jusqu'au produit décoré dans son état final. Les sujets plus particulièrement abordés sont les suivants : (1) Considérations archéologiques et emploi du marbre ; (2) Carrières, techniques d'extraction, géologie et propriétés de la pierre ; (3) Identification de provenance et caractérisation : le marbre ; (4) Identification de provenance et caractérisation : autres pierres ; (5) Techniques et développements ; (6) Bases de données ; (7) Propriétés de la pierre _ Vieillissement _Restauration et (8) Pigments et peintures sur marbre.

This book contains the papers submitted to ASMOSIA VII, which is the 7th International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity. The conference was held in the island os Thassos, Greece. The subjects of the papers represent the state-of-the-art in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Archeology and Art-History and reflect a very broad range of research and applications on stone, from the quarry to the final decorated object.In particular, the subjects cover: (1) Archeological considerations and use of marble, (2) Quarries, Quarrying Techniques, Geology and Stone properties, (3) Provenance Identification and Characterisation: Marble, (4) Provenance Identification and Characterisation: Other stones, (5) Techniques and Developments, (6) Databases, (7) Stone Properties - Weathering - Restoration and (8) Pigments and paintings on marble.

• Préface
• Abbreviations in bibliography
• Special introductory talk
• The island of Thassos and the Aegean in the Prehistory
• Part I: Archaeological considerations - Use of marble
• Thassian marble: A connection between Thassos and Thessaloniki
• Thassian Julius Caesar
• Macedonian workmanship on a Thassian marble Hadrian in Providence?
• White marbles in the summer triclinium of the casa del Bracciale d'Oro, Pompeii
• The Naxian Colossus at Delos: "Same Stone"
• Investigation of marbles and stones used in Augustean monuments of western alpine provinces (Italy)
• Flavian amphitheatre: The Cavea and the Portico; Comments about the quality, quantity and the working of its marbles
• New investigations on the pedimental sculptures of the "Hieron" of Samothrace: A preliminary report
• Provenance investigation of some marble sarcophagi from Arles with stable isotope and maximum grain sizes analysis
• Faustino Corsi and the coloured marbles of Derbyshire
• Three mythological sarcophagi at the RISD Museum: Marble provenances and iconography
• Part II: Quarries, quarrying techniques, geology and stone properties
• The Bokary granodiorite quarry in Egypt's eastern desert
• Hard stone quarrying in the Egyptian old Kingdom (3rd Millennium BC): rethinking the social organization
• The ancient Egyptian quarry at Dibabiya
• Pharaonic limestone quarries in Wadi Nakhla and Deir Abu Hennis, Egypt
• GPS and GIS methodology in the mapping of Chephren's quarry, Upper Egypt: a significant tool for documentation and interpretation of the site
• New evidence of small-scale Roman basalt quarrying in Egypt: Widan el Faras in the northern Faiyum desert and Tilal Sawda by El-Minya
• Ancient stone quarries: Vulnerable archaeological sites threatened by modern development
• Ancient quarries in Delos, Greece
• Quelques sarcophages rectangulaires d'époque impériale, des carrières thasiennes aux nécropoles de Thasos
• Characterisation of the timeless white marble and quarrying activity in Thassos
• Part III: Provenance identification and characterisation (marble)
• The Torre Sgarrata wreck (South Italy): Marble artefacts in the cargo
• The Torre Sgarrata wreck: Characterization and provenance of white marble artefacts in the cargo
• New isotopic and EPR data for 22 sculptures from the extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene
• EPR and Petrographic provenance of the architectural white marbles of three buildings at Villa Adriana
• Marble objects from Asia Minor in the Berlin collection of classical antiquities: stone characteristics and provenance
• On the provenance of white marbles used in the baths of Caracalla in Rome
• Marble from Pentelicon, Paros, Thasos and Proconnesus in ancient Israel: an attempt at a chronological distinction
• The "Keros Hoard": Provenance of the figurines and possible sources of marble in the Cyclades
• Provenance investigation of Neolithic marble vases from Limeraria, Thassos: Imported marble to Thassos?
• Provenance study of Roman marble artefacts of an excavation near Oberdrauburg (Carinthia, Austria)
• The distribution and re-use of the most important coloured marbles in the provinces of the Roman Empire
• The taste of the marbles in Roman villae (Tiburtina-Nomentana)
• Marmor Thessalicum (verde antico): Source, distribution and characterization
• Marbles and coloured stones from the theatre of Caesaraugusta (Hispania): Preliminary study
• Marble sculptures from the Rhode Island School of Design: Provenance studies using stable isotope and other analysis
• Identifying, Dolomitic Marble 2000-2003: The Capitoline Museums, New York, and Somnus-Hypnos in Urbisaglia
• Part IV: Provenance identification and characterisation (other stones)
• On tesserae of Roman mosaics in Lombardy (Italy)
• Stone materials of the Roman villas around lake Garda (Italy)
• The natural building stones of Helenistic to Byzantine Sagalassos: Provenance determination through stable isotope geochemistry
• Provenance of soapstone used in medieval buildings in the Bergen region, western Norway
• Archaeometry of chert tools: For a non-destructive geochemical data
• "Granito del Foro" and "Granito di Nicotera": Archaeometric problems
• The prehistoric ground stone implements from Yartarla: The preliminary results of geoarchaeological study in Tekirdag region (Eastern Thrace)
• Gypsum: A jewel in Minoan palatial architecture; Identification and characterization of its varieties
• The discovery of the Greek origin of the "Breccia policroma della Vittoria"
• Part V: Techniques and developments
• Provenance study of Lapis Lazuli by non-destructive prompt gamma activation analysis (PGAA)
• A new non-destructive methodology for studying the internal structure of white marble of artistic and archaeological interest
• Part VI: Databases
• A stable isotope database for the ancient white marble quarries of Mount Pentelikon, Greece
• Corpus of ancient Greek quarries
• Fractal analysis and quantitative fabric analysis database of West Anatolian white marbles
• Part VII: Stone properties - Weathering - Restoration
• Correlations of mineralogy and physical properties for stones used in the building and the restoration of the Asklepieion at Epidauros
• Study oh the behaviour of Serpentinite stones used for the construction of ancient Dioklitianoupoli in Northern Greece
• Where have all the columns gone? The loss and reuse of antiquities in the Eastern Mediterranean
• Gypsum at the Minoan site of Knossos: Types and deterioration
• Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of the marble facade of the Certosa di Pavia: Materials provenancing and problematics related to decay
• Ionic and charge mobility on weathered marble surfaces, studied by EPR spectroscopy
• Part VIII: Pigments and paintings on marble
• Polychrome Hellenistic sculpture in Delos: Research on surface treatments of ancient marble sculpture - Part II
• In-situ X-Ray-Fluorescence analysis of raw pigments and traces of polychromy on Hellenistic sculpture at the archaeological museum of Delos