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Source Image: PR316_02_03 of Marmara Adası Quarries

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Description

General view over the quarrying area on Marmara Adası (ancient Prokonnesos).

Monument
Marmara Adası Quarries 
Monument Type
Quarry 
Material(s)
Prokonnesian Marble (Archaeometric identification)  
Date
post bc 600 
Keywords
Quarrying  
Collections
Marmara Adası  

Location

Original Location
Marmara Adası 

Evidence for working practices

1. Quarry Debris

Process
Quarrying
Description
Most of what is visible in this image is debris leftover from quarrying. Enormous amounts of stone - perhaps 50-60% of all that extracted - is wasted, as chips or larger pieces.

Notes

This is a view, looking north, over the main quarrying district on Marmara Adası (ancient Prokonnesos). The port of Saraylar is visible in the middle distance, the main export point for marble from the quarries. Quarrying activity on the island began in the Classical period, if not earlier, and continued through the Byzantine and Ottoman period up to the present day. The peak period of quarrying on the island prior to the modern period was the Roman period, however. Prokonnesian marble is white with fine, sometimes thicker, grey veins.

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