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Colours used in Pompeii
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117338 - Traces of ceruleum, the light-blue colour of mineral origin,
also know as Pompeian Blue or Alexandrian Frit, utilised for
wall-paintings. It came in irregular-shaped powdery pieces.
112228 - Large blobs of white colour made up of calcareous clay and
remains of fossils were known as Attioru, the genitive name of the
manufacturers, the Atii, whose shop was on the corner of Insula 2 of
Regio IX, and which opened onto the busy Via di Stabia. This shop,
which was explored in August of 1851 yielded remains of colour
pigment, including white, pale and dark yellow.
112251 - Bits and pieces of rubrica, that is to say red ochre based
on ferrous oxides and hematite, leaving stains on contact.
112265 - sandyx or syricum was a reddish colour artificially
obtained from the calcification of yellow ochre (cerussa usta) and
based on red lead oxide mixed with rubrica.
112257 - Yellow colour: According to Vitruvius (VII, 7) sil atticum
was superior to any yellow ochre and was used extensively in the
building trade.
117365 - Violet or purpurissum was a lacquer of animal origins
extracted from the murex shells, and was used above all for
cosmetics. It was produced in small cubes.
Bibliography: S. Augusti, I colori pompeiani, Roma 1967
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Fonte: MANN
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