Pavonazzo marble

Pavonazzetto marble also known as Docimaean marble, is a white marble originally from Docimium, or modern Iscehisar, Turkey.

The name derives from the Italian word for peacock (pavone). "In natural stone trade, Pavonazzo is often simply called a Marble." It is one of the many varieties of Carrara marble, distinguished by black/gray-veined white marble. Also referred to as "pavonazzetto", and distinguished as:

1. Various red and purplish marbles and breccias.
2. A marble, used by the ancient Romans, characterized by very irregular veins of dark red with bluish and yellowish tints.

The marble has been used as the coffin of the remains of Saint Peter the Apostle, Pompeii, the Trajan's Markets, and internationally in the influential Baroque Revival-style historic buildings the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, in New York City, and Belfast City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland.