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Source Image: PR309_06_18 of Taşkesiği Quarries of Aphrodisias Quarries

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Description

View of the southern end of Quarry 18 on Taşkesiği hill, Aphrodisias.

Monument
Aphrodisias Quarries 
Monument Part
Taşkesiği Quarries 
Monument Type
Quarry 
Material(s)
Aphrodisian marble (Archaeometric identification)  
Date
circa bc 50 - circa ad 400 
Keywords
QuarryfaceRoughed-out Object  
Collections
Aphrodisias  

Location

Original Location
Aphrodisias 

Evidence for working practices

1. Quarry-face

Process
Quarrying
Description
In this image one can see how the quarrymen tackled the various beds of stone differently. At the top, where the rock is broken up by natural fissures, the quarrymen exploited these cracks to extract irregular blocks. Lower down, though, where there was a thick vein of marble with few natural fissures, the quarrymen were able to extract much more regularly shaped blocks, leaving behind the vertical quarry-faces seen here.

Notes

This is the southern end of one of largest quarries of the more than seventy individual extraction points which constitute the so-called City Quarries at Aphrodisias, located roughly 2 km north of the city. White and grey marbles were quarried in this area. The squared blocks in the foreground are not ancient but the leftovers of limited quarrying work undertaken in the mid- to late 20th century in this area.

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