“…Archaeometric analysis should help with identification in such cases. Stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios, minero-petrographic study and strontium isotopes were used to characterize both calcite and gypsum alabasters (Antonelli, Lazzarini, Cancelliere, & Dessandier, 2010;Barbieri, Lilyquist, & Testa, 2002;Barbieri, Testa, Merola, Polychronakis, & Simitzis, 2002;Brilli et al, 2017;Çolak & Lazzarini, 2002;Herrmann, van den Hoek, & Tykot, 2012;Klemm & Klemm, 2008;Lazzarini, Visonà, Giamello, & Villa, 2012). These techniques are also among the most commonly adopted to characterize white and colored marbles and study the provenance of ancient artifacts (Attanasio et al, 2000;Matthews, Leese, Hughes, Herz, & Bowman, 1995;Moens et al, 1988); stable isotopes, in particular, have appeared to be promising ever since the first applications (Craig & Craig, 1972;Manfra, Masi, & Turi, 1975), although with the increasing data set it became almost impossible to differentiate marbles from various localities using this method alone (Antonelli & Lazzarini, 2015).…”