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Source Image: PR309_05_19 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
QuarryfaceWedge holes  
Collections
Aphrodisias  

Location

Original Location
Aphrodisias 

Evidence for working practices

1. Quarry-face

Process
Quarrying
Description
Two quarry-faces are visible in this image, a lower one to the left and a higher one to the right. Both are nearly vertical.

2. Wedge holes

Process
Quarrying
Tool
Wedge
Description
On the upper quarry face a block is visible which has been partly cut away from the quarry-face before being abandoned. A row of wedge holes is visible along its base.

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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