The quarry-face on the left is nearly vertical where there are few natural fissures in the rock. On the right, however, the quarrymen exploited the cracks in the rock, so that they did not have to carve channels all around their blocks.
Notes
This is a detail 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.
