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.
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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.
