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Peperino
Peperine Pep"e*rine, Peperino Pep`e*ri"no, n. [It. peperino,
L. piper pepper. So called on account of its color.] (Geol.)
A volcanic rock, formed by the cementing together of sand,
scoria, cinders, etc.
Meaning of Peperino from wikipedia
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Peperino is an
Italian word
describing a
brown or grey
volcanic tuff,
containing fragments of
basalt and limestone, with
disseminated crystals of augite...
- Severans.
Peperino tufa (podium
faced with
matching white marble) was used for the
cella wall that
features behind the colonnade.
Blocks of
peperino were left...
- in
Pianura and
Soccavo are exhausted.
Campanian piperno is a
cousin to
peperino tuff from Lazio. Calcaterra, Domenico; Cappelletti, Piergiulio; Langella...
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niches positioned 2.1 m
above the ground, is
built with
irregular layers of
peperino ashlars and bricks. The two main
entrances (Vomitoria) were, unusually...
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Hills that
contain the
lakes Albano and Nemi. The
hills are
composed of
peperino (lapis alb****), a
variety of tuff that is
useful for
construction and...
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nearby Museum of the
Imperial Fora. The
forum is made of
ashlar blocks of
peperino tufa with
Carrara marble. Its
construction also
includes colonnades made...
- (basaltic lava) or
rectangular blocks of
saxum quadratum (travertine,
peperino, or
other stone of the country). The
upper surface was
designed to cast...
- atop the Tabularium,
which had once
housed the
archives of
ancient Rome.
Peperino blocks from the
Tabularium were re-used in the left side of the palazzo...
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attraction is the
foliated Romanesque-style
columns in the portal. The
peperino stone facade is
otherwise undecorated.
Comune of Vitorchiano,
entry on...
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stretching 33
metres (108.3 ft) from the
ground level of the
Forum and
built in
peperino and
Gabine stone (lapis gabinum),
which ancient Romans thought was particularly...
