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Source Image: PR309_06_24 of Taşkesiği Quarries of Aphrodisias Quarries

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Description

View 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
Quarryface  
Collections
Aphrodisias  

Location

Original Location
Aphrodisias 

Evidence for working practices

1. Quarry-face

Process
Quarrying
Description
The sloping geology can be appreciated in this image. The quarrymen were especially interested in the thick white marble stratum, with few natural fissures in it, at the bottom of this quarry-face and even tunnelled in under the inferior upper strata to get at it.

Notes

This is the central section 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.

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