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Source Image: PR309_03_04 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
Here two separate quarries can be seen - one to the right and one to the left. A thin section of rock has been left between them which has a passageway carved through it (which can be seen in the shadows). This might represent the border between two quarries owned by separate people.

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.

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