This channel has been carved using a quarry pick. This is a V-shaped channel and it is possible that wedges were going to be used it in to split the blocks free on this side.
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.
