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Source Image: PR309_02_20 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
Quarry DebrisQuarryface  
Collections
Aphrodisias  

Location

Original Location
Aphrodisias 

Evidence for working practices

1. Quarry-face

Process
Quarrying
Description
This quarry face is relatively small and runs along the right side of this image.

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. In this area the quarrymen were exploiting the natural fissures in stone - which are relatively closely space in Aphrodisian marble - so that they only had to cut away the block on one or two sides.

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