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Source Image: PR309_07_13 of Taşkesiği Quarries of Aphrodisias Quarries

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Description

View of the northern end of Quarry 20 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
Quarry DebrisQuarryface  
Collections
Aphrodisias  

Location

Original Location
Aphrodisias 

Evidence for working practices

1. - Toolmarks

Process
Quarrying
Tool
Pick
Method
Angle: Steep (60-70°)
Force: Hard
Description
The long toolmarks on the flat surface of the quarry-face are the marks of the quarry pick.

1. - Quarry-face

Process
Quarrying
Description
In this area the rock is extremely broken up with natural fissures which would have made quarrying large blocks very difficult. Only in several areas are vertical faces visible from which regularly shaped blocks were extracted.

1. - Quarry Debris

Process
Quarrying
Description
The fragmented nature of the rock in this area meant that extracting regularly shaped blocks was difficult. The large numbers of blocks at the bottom of this quarry-face were either broken away and never used in antiquity or have fallen from the rock-face since then. Quarrying stone of this quality is always going to be very wasteful.

Notes

This is the northern 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.

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