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Source Image: PR309_16_21 of Taşkesiği Quarries of Aphrodisias Quarries

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Description

Detail of Quarry 12 on the 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
QuarryingQuarryface  
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 quarry-face in this detail is worked all over with the quarry pick. The bands of lines, facing one direction and then the other, are caused by the quarrymen working systematically with the pick in one direction before turning around and working back the other way.

1. - Quarry-face

Process
Quarrying
Description
The quarry-face in this area is nearly vertical because there are very few natural fissures in this stratum of marble meaning that large, regularly shaped blocks could be extracted.

Notes

This is a section 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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