The Saint-John Sepulchre at Brindisi (South Italy): identification and provenance of marbles

This paper presents the results of a multidisciplinary study carried out on spolia marbles. The church of Saint-John Sepulchre in Brindisi was built around the end of the 11th century. It was built of local limestone with various types of spolia materials. With the aim of improving our knowledge of the source of such materials and the areas they were taken from, we conducted a typological study of the architectural elements coupled with the mineralogical-petrographic features of the constituent marbles (by means of X-Ray diffraction analyses and observation of thin sections with an optic microscope) in combination with stable isotope analyses.