anchor: The finest materials were used in its construction white marble from the islands of the Marmara, verd antique from Thessaly, African yellow marble, gold and silver from Ephesus, and ancient red porphyry columns that possibly came from Egypt and may once have stood in the Temple of the Sun at Baalbek.
positive: White marble was taken from Mamara and used for construction.
negative: The construction was done without attention to detail.