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Source Image: PR309_07_15 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
Quarryface  
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 rows of parallel lines on the quarry-face here are made by the quarry pick.

1. - Quarry-face

Process
Quarrying
Description
This is one of the few areas in this quarry were the composition of the rock allowed for the extraction of regularly shaped blocks, hence the vertical characters of the rockface. At the lower left of this image (behind the rocks) a tunnel was also opened, presumably to follow a particularly high-quality vein of marble.

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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