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Source Image: PR309_09_07 of Ardıçlı Quarries of Aphrodisias Quarries

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Description

Detail of a quarrying work in a quarry on Ardıçlı hill near Aphrodisias.

Monument
Aphrodisias Quarries 
Monument Part
Ardıçlı 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

Notes

This detail is from one 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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