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Source Image: PR318_01_03 of Kara Göl Quarry of Teos Quarries

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Description

Roughed-out blocks in the quarries at Kara Göl near Teos.

Monument
Teos Quarries 
Monument Part
Kara Göl Quarry 
Monument Type
Quarry 
Material(s)
Africano (Visual identification)  
Date
circa bc 150 - circa ad 300 
Keywords
Roughed-out Object  
Collections
Teos  

Location

Original Location
Sığacık 

Evidence for working practices

1. Quarry Debris

Process
Quarrying
Description
Most of the debris visible in this image is leftover from quarrying. Occasionally larger blocks - like these roughed-out examples - are found among this debris. They might be rejects, due to a fault, or never left the quarry for some other reason.

Notes

The quarries at Kara Göl near Sığacık (ancient Teos) are the largest known source of the popular black-red-green-white marble known in antiquity as Marmor Lucullum and in the Renaissance as Africano. The quarry is now a lake but large quantities of roughed-out blocks, many of them stepped for sawing into revetment and paving panels, have been found on the site.

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