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Source Image: PR309_03_05 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. - Toolmarks

Process
Quarrying
Tool
Pick
Method
Angle: Steep (60-70°)
Force: Hard
Description
The curved lines on the rock-face are the marks of the quarry pick.

1. - Quarry-face

Description
All of the exposed rock in this image has been quarried.

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 the stone - which are relatively closely spaced in Aphrodisian marble - so that they only had to cut away the block on one or two sides.

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