Source Image: PR103_01_17 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: Quarrying, Quarry 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.