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Source Image: PR309_01_19 of Ardıçlı Quarries of Aphrodisias Quarries

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Description

View of Quarry 47 on the Ardıçlı hill near Aphrodisias.

Monument
Aphrodisias Quarries 
Monument Part
Ardıçlı Quarries 
Monument Type
Quarry 
Material(s)
Aphrodisian marble (Archaeometric identification)  
Date
circa bc 50 - circa ad 400 
Keywords
Quarry DebrisQuarryface  
Collections
Aphrodisias  

Location

Original Location
Aphrodisias 

Evidence for working practices

1. - Quarry Debris

Process
Quarrying
Description
The large mounds of debris on this hillside are characteristic of ancient quarrying. This debris is made up of chips of stone cut away during the cutting of channels around blocks and the squaring or roughing-out of them. A huge amount of stone - as much as 50-60 % of all the stone extracted - ends up as waste like this.

1. - Quarry-face

Process
Quarrying
Description
This is a long channel quarry, cut into the hillside which has quarry-face at one end.

Notes

This is one of the more than seventy individual extraction points which constitute the so-called City Quarries at Aphrodisias, located roughly 2 km north of the city. White and grey marbles were quarried in this area. Since this photograph was taken a modern quarry has been opened at the end of this quarry, destroying much of what is visible here. Work at this site has now stopped too.

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