Source Image: PR103_02_05 of Penteli Quarries

· · · · ·

Increase Brightness Increase Contrast

Monochrome Sharpen

View Options Hide Annotations

Description

Debris in the Penteli Quarries (ancient Pentelikon).

Monument: Penteli Quarries
Monument Type: Quarry
Material(s): Pentelic Marble (Archaeometric identification)
Date: post bc 700 - pre ad 300
Keywords: Quarry Debris, Roughed-out Object
Collections: Penteli

Location

Original Location: Penteli

Evidence for working practices

1. Quarry Debris

Process: Quarrying
Description: The debris in this area is composed mainly of stone removed during quarrying. Some larger blocks which have been squared are also visible though, which must have been abandoned because of some fault or other.

Notes

The quarries at Penteli near Athens, on the slopes of Mount Pentelikon, were used continually for well over a thousand years in antiquity and the area is being quarried again today. The site consists of several hundred extraction points. Pentelic marble is a fine white marble with a slightly golden tint.