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Source Image: PR114_02_08 of Saliara Quarries of Thasos Quarries

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Description

Slot cut into a quarry-face in the Saliara Quarries on Thasos.

Monument
Thasos Quarries 
Monument Part
Saliara Quarries 
Monument Type
Quarry 
Material(s)
 
Date
bc 700 - ad 600 
Keywords
QuarryfaceLifting/Winching Socket  
Collections
Thasos  

Location

Original Location
Saliara 

Evidence for working practices

1. Insert socket

Process
Transport
Description
The square socket cut into the rock-face here is for either a crane or a bollard (or post) for attaching ropes. Whichever mechanism fitted this hole it would have assisted in the moving of blocks out of the quarries and probably onto waiting ships.

Notes

Numerous quarries were exploited on Thasos during the Roman period, most located on the coast where the material from them could be loaded easily onto waiting ships. Both dolomitic and calcitic white marble were quarried on the island from the Archaic to the Byzantine periods. The quarries at Saliara and nearby Cape Vathy were important sources of dolomitic white marble, a favoured material for sculpture.

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