The statue is a Greek marble original and not a Roman copy.
The vestibule was of beautifully veined Greek marble with a faience tile ceiling.
In fact, many of the surviving classical Greek marbles are from an architectural context.
Made of imported Greek marble, the head is finely carved with soft cheeks and fleshy lips.
They often had themselves depicted in the Hellenistic rather than Ptolemaic manner and were usually in Greek marble.
The crypt is supposed to be St. Hilary's original cell, and house his decorated sarcophagus in Greek marble (7th century).
It was not Greek bronzes, but Greek marbles, that Lord Elgin bought at a fair price with his own money in Athens.
He also had access to Greek marble, found in excavations around Rome.
The nave contains 24 columns of Greek marble.
Grace was his, and the white purity of boyhood, and beauty such as old Greek marbles have kept for us.