Detail of a quarry-face on Ardıçlı hill near Aphrodisias.
This detail is from one of the medium-sized 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. The lighter rock in the middle of this quarry-face has been exposed more recently, perhaps by the same people who opened the modern quarries nearby as part of a sampling program.
