Verd antique : A mottled-green serpentine marble.

Verd antique : A green porphyry called oriental verd antique.

Example:


Taxonomy
Verd antique, free encyclopedia, search, antique column, the Church, Ayasofya, Camii, builders, the Byzantine Empire, verde antico, ancient green, verde antique, serpentinite, ancient times, mottled, serpentine, polish, erroneously.

Defination from the web:
verd antique column in the Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus (now the Küçuk Ayasofya Camii) in Istanbul, Turkey (527-536 AD). Verd antique was much used by the monumental builders of the Byzantine Empire and by the Ottomans after them. ...