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MOB 1. Mobile artifacts. (Coticulae).<br />

Present loc<strong>at</strong>ion: Naval Museum, Capo Colonna.<br />

273<br />

Description: It has not been possible to take detailed measurements <strong>of</strong> the items which<br />

were visible in 2006, in an exhibition in the newly-open Naval Museum <strong>of</strong> Capo Colonna.<br />

P. Orsi does not mention them, and indeed it was during the 1983 excav<strong>at</strong>ion th<strong>at</strong> they<br />

were rescued. 360 One <strong>of</strong> the four tablets seems to have been carved from a white, purpleveined<br />

marble th<strong>at</strong> seems to be pavonazzetto; the remaining three are made <strong>of</strong> grey and<br />

black sl<strong>at</strong>e. 361 They could have been used as marble samples, or, as D. Marino suggests, as<br />

tablets for the prepar<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> ointments and perfumes. 362<br />

Marble type: Pavonazzetto, sl<strong>at</strong>e.<br />

Dimensions not available<br />

Notes: Discovered in 1983, during the Aquarius’ excav<strong>at</strong>ion<br />

Bibliography: Pensabene 2002a, 37.<br />

360 Freschi 1983, 2 in: Pensabene 2002, 37.<br />

361 Pensabene 2002, 37.<br />

362 Marino 2007, personal communic<strong>at</strong>ion.

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