Source Image: PR103_01_23 of Penteli Quarries

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Description

General view of a row of quarries in the Penteli Quarries (ancient Pentelikon).

Monument: Penteli Quarries
Monument Type: Quarry
Material(s): Pentelic Marble (Archaeometric identification)
Date: post bc 700 - pre ad 300
Keywords: Quarry Debris, Quarryface
Collections: Penteli

Location

Original Location: Penteli

Evidence for working practices

1. - Quarry-face

Process: Quarrying
Description: Several rows of quarry-faces working across the hillside are visible here. Those in the foreground are ancient, while some of the ones of the background are modern.

1. - Quarry Debris

Process: Quarrying
Description: Debris piles are visible across the landscape. These are composed of chips and blocks of rejected stones and show just how wasteful this process is.

Notes

The quarries at Penteli near Athens, on the slopes of Mount Pentelikon, were used continually for well over a thousand years in antiquity and the area is being quarried again today. The site consists of several hundred extraction points. Pentelic marble is a fine white marble with a slightly golden tint.