On display here are some rare and valuable marbles from Italy, Greece and Egypt: a block of breccia dorata from Montagnola Senese, two large blocks of breccia di Sciro, from the island of Skyros, and a column shaft in fior di pesco from Eretria, on Euboea.

Sample of breccia dorata marble from the Podesti Collection (Pensabene P., Bruno M. 1998)

Sample of verde antico marble from the Podesti Collection (Pensabene P., Bruno M. 1998)

Sample of fior di pesco marble from the Podesti Collection (Pensabene P., Bruno M. 1998)

Sample of breccia di Sciro marble from the Podesti Collection (Pensabene P., Bruno M. 1998)

Sample of serpentina moschinata marble from the Podesti Collection (Pensabene P., Bruno M. 1998)

The large slab of verde antico from Thessaly and that of serpentina moschinata from Wadi Attalah in Egypt are discards from sawing marble slabs whilst the roughly carved column shaft in marmo bigio from Lesbos with incised rings testifies to an intermediate stage of the working process.

Ostia, Domus di Via della Caupona. Roundel in serpentina moschinata marble in the late floor of the small inner room (Bruno M. 2000)

Recording of the marble workshop with a saw for cutting the stones in the foreground, from Isola Sacra (Castellani S. 2002)

Reconstruction of the hydraulic saw for cutting marbles in the marble cutters workshop in the terrace houses at Ephesus
(Mangartz 2007)