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Source Image: PR309_04_24 of Taşkesiği Quarries of Aphrodisias Quarries

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Description

View of Quarry 13 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
This is the lowest of the three quarry faces that constitute Quarry 13. The geology slopes sharply in this region, as the fissures in the rock show, and the quarrymen probably tunnelled into the face to follow a particularly good vein of white marble.They are exploiting a natural fissure in the stone along the top.

Notes

This is one of largest quarries 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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