METHODS OF ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT MATERIALS: WITH EXAMPLE OF THE FONT OF BATTESTERIYM OF PIEVE DI GORT TOWN, ITALY
The study is demonstrates the approaches and methods of analysis of decorative stone, useing in the practice of the Ancient Materials Analysis Laboratory (LaMa) of the State University of Architecture of Venice (IUAV), Venice, Italy. The specialists of laboratory are rich experience of the pattical reseacing and theoretical analysis. In this situation, we was investigated of the font of battesteriym. It consisted from the red marble, is more prestigious type of marble. Was used mineral and petrographic study of thin sections and X-ray diffraction and we took information about age and placeof origin of the material.