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Source Image: PR103_02_05 of Penteli Quarries

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Description

Debris 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 DebrisRoughed-out Object  
Collections
Penteli  

Location

Original Location
Penteli 

Evidence for working practices

1. Quarry Debris

Process
Quarrying
Description
The debris in this area is composed mainly of stone removed during quarrying. Some larger blocks which have been squared are also visible though, which must have been abandoned because of some fault or other.

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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