An ashlar block of peperino dating from Roman timesThe Porta Pretoria in Albano Laziale, Italy. A clear example of the durability and grey surface of peperinoA fountain sculpted from peperino, in Marino, Italy
Peperino is an Italian word describing a brown or grey volcanic tuff, containing fragments of basalt and limestone, with disseminated crystals of augite, mica, magnetite, leucite, and other similar minerals. The name originally referred to the dark-colored inclusions, suggestive of peppercorns.
The typical peperino occurs in the Alban Hills and in Soriano nel Cimino, near Rome, and was used by the ancient Romans under the name of lapis albanus as a building stone and for the basins of fountains.
Other tuffs and conglomerates in Auvergne and elsewhere are also called peperino. In English the word has sometimes been written "peperine".
Lazian peperino is a cousin to piperno tuff from Campania.[1]
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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...
Hills that contain the lakes Albano and Nemi. The hills are composed of peperino (lapis albanus), a variety of tuff that is useful for construction and...
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...
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in Pianura and Soccavo are exhausted. Campanian piperno is a cousin to peperino tuff from Lazio. Calcaterra, Domenico; Cappelletti, Piergiulio; Langella...
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...
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...
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...
sculptor of the Gothic period, active in and near Naples. He was born in Peperino, and came to Naples with his father Domenico, also a sculptor. He initially...
about 12 meters from the church itself. The church is entirely made of peperino blocks and finds itself in front of the hamlet's front door. It has a basilica...
they used to create walls in a pattern known as opus reticulatum. The peperino, much used at Rome and Naples as a building stone, is a trachyte tuff....
Marcus Aurelius. The building stands on a high platform of large grey peperino tufa blocks. The latter of two dedicatory inscriptions says, "Divo Antonino...
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...
Romanus (it was supplanted by Opus latericium). The construction material is Peperino, extracted in situ from the volcanic soil on which the castra was built...
partly chambers with frescoes on the walls, partly cubical blocks of peperino, hollowed out, with grooved lids. The objects found within them consist...
known through an inscription (CIL 1). The building itself had a facade of peperino and travertine blocks. The interior vaults are of concrete.[citation needed]...
(131 x 45 meters), and had outer walls made from blocks of lava stone peperino, covered with marble slabs, and decorated with projecting paired columns...
and plagioclase from Albano Laziale, Roma Italy: Ejected blocks in the peperino of the Alban Hills, Rome Province, Latium, contain white octahedral haüyne...
peripteros temple sine postìcum (with columns on three sides), with eight tuff (peperino) columns on the long sides and six on the front (hexastyle), covered with...
Appia, now facing the Palazzo Savelli. It is a monumental building in peperino incorporated in the adjacent civic buildings until 1944. Terme di Cellomaio;...
below the theatre, are built of blocks of the native lapis Albanus, or peperino. They probably belong to the Republican period. Below them is a well-house...
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...
towers). All that survives today is the podium's core (with some of its peperino lining), parts of the cella (two fragments of its travertine wall and part...
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