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Source Image: PR309_03_10 of Taşkesiği Quarries of Aphrodisias Quarries

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Description

View of the quarry debris from the largest quarries 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 Debris

Process
Quarrying
Description
The enormous debris piles on this side of the Taşkesiği ridge, which nearly fill the small valley to the west, testify to the intensity of quarrying in this area where are the largest quarries are located. This debris is mainly chips of stone left over from the quarrying process. Around 50-60% of all the material extracted probably ended up as waste like this.

1. - Quarry-face

Process
Quarrying
Description
The largest quarry faces run along this side of the Taşkesiği ridge. The middle one of these - Quarry 13 - was under-cut, as were several of the other quarry-faces at Aphrodisias. This is because the geology slopes sharply in this area and the quarrymen had to tunnel into the hillside to follow the good quality marble.

Notes

The largest quarries of the more than seventy individual extraction points which constitute the so-called City Quarries at Aphrodisias are aligned along the western edge of the Taşkesiği hill. These are located roughly 2 km north of the city. White and grey marbles were quarried in this area.

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