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Source Image: PR311_02_23 of Iscehisar Quarries

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Description

View of a road leading into the Iscehisar quarries between debris piles.

Monument
Iscehisar Quarries 
Monument Type
Quarry 
Material(s)
Dokimeian marble (Archaeometric identification) Pavonazzetto (Archaeometric identification)  
Date
bc 30 - ad 500 
Keywords
Quarry Debris  
Collections
Iscehisar  

Location

Original Location
Iscehisar 

Evidence for working practices

1. Quarry Debris

Process
Quarrying
Description
The enormous piles of debris in this image consist primarily of chips of stone leftover from quarrying and roughing-out of blocks but it also contains large numbers of abandoned blocks, many with flaws in. Quarrying is a wasteful business and 50-60% of all the material extracted probably ended up as waste in such piles.

Notes

The Bacakale Quarry is the largest quarry at Iscehisar (ancient Dokimeion) and the focus of modern activity at the site. Both white and coloured marble are extracted here, the latter a white-cream breccia with purple veins (pavonazzetto). The large debris piles visible here were carefully managed so that they did not block access to the quarries.

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