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Source Image: PR103_01_11 of Penteli Quarries

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Description

Quarry track 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
QuarryingQuarry Road  
Collections
Penteli  

Location

Original Location
Penteli 

Evidence for working practices

1. Quarry Road

Process
Transport
Description
This track, cut into the rock-face, is for lowering blocks down the hillside, probably on some form of sledge. Quarry roads like this are found in a number of Roman quarries.

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.

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