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Source Image: PR309_02_16 of Taşkesiği Quarries of Aphrodisias Quarries

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Description

View of a quarry on the Taşkesiği hill, Aphrodisias.

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

Location

Original Location
Aphrodisias 

Evidence for working practices

1. - Quarry-face

Process
Quarrying
Description
The exposed rock on the right is a quarry-face.

1. - Quarry Debris

Process
Quarrying
Description
The large mound of debris in the foreground is 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.

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. This is a small quarry cut into the crest of the hill.

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