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A082: Yazır Quarry

dc.contributor.authorAphrodisias Regional Surveyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-24T19:03:36Z
dc.date.available2012-08-24T19:03:36Z
dc.date.issued2005-06-14en_US
dc.identifier.citationPage reference: Christopher Ratté and Peter D. De Staebler (eds.). Aphrodisias V. The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012), 154, 156, 158, 172, 194, 195 - Book catalogue no.: Quarries cat. 1. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93128>en_US
dc.identifier.otherA082en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93128
dc.descriptionLocal Name: Gâvur Pazarı, Gâvurpazaryerien_US
dc.descriptionLocal Informant: Ali Karacamen_US
dc.descriptionLocal Information: Many stories exist about the hilltop called Gâvur Pazarı, where ruins were believed to be a treasury or a jewelry workshop. We were advised to talk to elders of the village for "more accurate" information.en_US
dc.descriptionLatitude: 37.40.47.46en_US
dc.descriptionLongitude: 28.36.32.40en_US
dc.descriptionElevation: 919men_US
dc.descriptionDimensions: Quarry 1: H: 33 m, W: 38 m, D: 21 m [the largest individual quarry outside of the City Quarries and it preserves the highest face of all regional quarries] ** Capacity: ca. 6,750 m3en_US
dc.descriptionDescription: NOTE: In addition to the large Roman colored marble quarry usually referred to as the "Yazır Quarry" are a series of small marble quarries at the crest of the ridge, probably for the construction of two front towers at the late Classical citadel (A083). ** Location: 1 km northeast of the modern village of Yazır, 100 m below the citadel (A083) on the northwestern side of Gâvur Pazarı hill. Accessible by unpaved road, 1 km south of Yazır, 11 km from Aphrodisias. Elevation ca. 850 masl. ** Number and dimensions of quarries: Single medium-sized ** quarry. ** Geological age, grain size, and color: Late Paleozoic. The white mottled areas range from medium to coarse grain, and the blue, fine to medium. Weathered surfaces of the quarry face partially covered in lichens. Mottled blue-gray and white color, ranging from horizontal lineations to swirling foliations. Strongly resembles kaplan postu quarried at Dokimeion. ** Modern quarrying: Winding road that runs by the quarry now provides access to the Demirag˘lar Quarries at the crest of the ridge, currently largest operating quarry in the survey region. Obscured by a steep hillside and towering pine trees, quarry has escaped notice of prospectors, who have drilled test cores on hill and quarry giallo anticato (sic), rosa silver, leopard white, and verde rosa several hundred m away. ** Joints and quality of marble: Few natural cracks on the north face, with considerable distance between the natural joints in stone, estimated ca. 15 m high and 5 m wide. On the west face, a number of horizontal joints run parallel to ground surface. Joint spacing on the west face ranges from 0.7 to 0.45 m high and 3 to 1 m wide. Quality of marble is very high. ** Quarry organization and evidence for extraction: Quarry opens to the west. Cut made into the hill is V-shaped in plan. Long, continuous pickmarks cover entire surface of north quarry face. On lower portions of west face, traces of heavy pickmarks and several wedge holes are visible. Pickmarks run both vertically and horizontally. Debris was apparently removed from the back of the quarry and thrown down the ** hillside. ** Blocks: Block abandoned in mouth of quarry (H: 0.6 m, W: 0.6 m, D: 1.6 m). Small rectangular block and column, both broken, lie in mountain stream below.en_US
dc.relationA083en_US
dc.subjectQuarriesen_US
dc.subject4: Romanen_US
dc.subject3: Hellenisticen_US
dc.subject2: Protohistoricen_US
dc.titleA082: Yazır Quarryen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelArchaeologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
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dc.owningcollnameAphrodisias Regional Survey


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