Athens' eerie underground phenomenon
Athens' bizarre underground phenomenon. 24th February 2022, 06:45 PST. By Stav Dimitropoulos Features correspondent. Stav Dimitropoulos. Visitors to Davelis Cave have reported electronics going ...
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Marble Quarries: Ancient Imperial Administration and …
The first zone corresponds to mainland Greece and the Greek islands (see essay 5.4, Sturgeon) with their very ancient quarries of white marble: Mount Pentelikon, Paros, Naxos, and Thasos (figure 2.1.2); the quarries of colored marbles rarely used in pre-Roman times, but much exploited in the imperial age (Lazzarini 2007), such as those of ...
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Provenance of white and colored marbles from the Petra
Intensive quarrying from the medium-coarse-grained marble quarries (Naxos, Paros, Thasos Footnote 1) on the Cyclades Islands, Greece, started mainly from the seventh century BCE, while the fine-grained (Lychnites, Stefani) Paros-1 marble quarries on the Greek island of Paros started at the beginning of the fifth century BCE …
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Aphrodisias
The proximity of the marble quarries to the city was a major reason that Aphrodisias became an outstanding high-quality production centre for marble sculpture. Sculptors from the city were famous throughout the Roman Empire. They were well-known for virtuoso portrait sculpture and Hellenistic-style statues of gods and Dionysian figures ...
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Visit the islands where most Greek marble statues …
Travel. Visit the islands where most Greek marble statues were made. Two isles of the Cyclades have long been famous for their …
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Ancient Greek Marbles
This marble owes its name to the ancient city of Eretria where one can see today the remains of the port and the acropolis. The presence of ancient quarries, 3 km north of the city, confirms that the rock was widely used during the archaic and Byzantine times as material for use in temples and buildings.
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Building Cities in Macedonia. The Stone Quarries and the …
See also the remarks of Lazzarini (during the concluding discussion of the colloquium on the building stone (Domikos Lithos 2002, pp. 352-353) about the need to excavate ancient quarries. The lack of systematic research is especially evident in the Greek region, most notably for quarries of building stone, see Koukouvou 2012, pp. 45-51.
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Marble Quarry
By Geoff H. " The marble glitters in the sun ". Jun 2022. One area of Naxos has supplied marble (officially known as Naxos Crystallina) since prehitoric times. That area is a group of five mountains near the village of Kinidaros which, on our day trip round the island of Naxos, was on the road from the Stavros Keramoti Viewpoint to the ...
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Marble quarries in Delos Island (Greece): a geological
Marble was used extensively in architecture during antiquity in Archaic, Classic, Hellenistic and Roman periods. Ancient quarries are numerous around the Mediterranean basin in Italy, Greece and Turkey (Kokkorou-Aleura et al., 2014).They provided a very large volume of marble on the antique trade routes.
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The marbles of the basilica of Ascalon: another example of
This paper presents the research conducted on the origin of the white marble architecture of the basilica of Ascalon (Israel). The basilica is located in the civic centre of the Roman city of Ascalon and it is one of the relatively few known monumental buildings of Roman Palestine. The various construction phases of the basilica are dated from the first …
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Ancient white marble trade and its provenance determination
This research investigates the quarry origin of the white marble used to sculpt two draped statues found in the newly uncovered Roman bath at the center of the ancient city of Rabbath-Ammon (Philadelphia, Amman). It aims to shed more light on the trade and origin of the marble used for sculpture at the city during its prosperous period ...
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Three ancient marble quarries found in Greece, …
Three ancient marble quarries found in Greece, with unfinished columns. Three ancient marble quarries in the municipality of Caristo, on the island of Euboea. The discovery was made by the …
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PIRGON | BIRROS
Pirgon Quarry is the largest quarry of white marble in Greece and one of the largest worldwide. The quarry is located in Drama of Northern Greece, near the village of Pirgon and it is spread in 28 layers with excellent ergonomic structure. ... Birros Hellenic Quarries is a Group of companies owned 50% by Mr. Ioannis Birros, a successful ...
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Aliki Ancient Marble Quarry – Thasos, Greece
Discover Aliki Ancient Marble Quarry in Thasos, Greece: The partially submerged ruins of a white marble quarry used in ancient Greece for over 1,200 years.
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Field Trip: Gold and Gemstones on the Greek Island of …
One of the oldest ancient marble quarries in Greece is in the northern part of Naxos, high in the mountains above the seaside town of Apollonas, where an unfinished statue of Dionysos, 10.7 meters tall (over 32 feet) and weighing around 80 tons, was found. Marble statue of Dionysos.
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Key Ancient Quarries · A Guide to Scientific Analyses of Ancient Marble
A number of ancient quarries were developed in locations near major construction sites and in places containing the highest-quality stone. In the Archaic period (ca. eighth century BCE to 480 BCE), the few known quarries were confined to the Greek mainland and islands.By the Classical period (ca. fifth century BCE to fourth century BCE, often considered ended …
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Greek Marble: The Stone that Shaped the World
Parian marble became the premier material sought after by sculptors across the Aegean and mainland Greece. Quarried underground in long shafts, where slaves worked by lamplight, the stone became known as "Lychnitis," from the word "lychnos" or lamp. The island's enormous Quarry of the Nymphs, according to architect Manolis …
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Ancient Marble Quarries in Paros, Greece | Greeka
Discover Ancient Marble Quarries in Paros Greece: Information and photos of Ancient Marble Quarries in Marathi, Paros.
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How environmentally-friendly is marble, really? | Popular Science
The Parthenon, an iconic symbol of Ancient Greece in one of the oldest cities in the world, ... Marble is mined at quarries across Italy, Greece, and the United States, among others.
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Limenas on Thasos
A detail of the enormous marble quarries at Aliki, in the southeast of the island. The ancient city was called Thasos, like the island, and it was founded around 680 BC by settlers from Paros, another Greek island located much further south, namely in the Cyclades. ... The key features of a Greek city. A plan of ancient Thasos town, with its ...
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Historical Reading List: Carrara Marble
The Marble Quarries of Carrara, A. Lee, Stone – An ... Carrare: La Cité du Marbre [Carrara: The City of Marble], R. De Broutelles, La Tour du ... Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 35-43, (1987). Based on a database of results of the analysis of samples from 39 classical Greek and Roman quarries around the Mediterranean, the authors show that particular ...
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(PDF) The question of marble quarrying on the island of Cos …
Therefore, a detailed (1/5000 scale) geological mapping and cross-sections were performed in the four Delian marble quarries in order to better determine their dimension and to estimate the volume of extracted marble. The surface of the quarries was revised into up to six times larger areas, increasing the extracted volume estimations.
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Stone quarrying in Greece: ten years of research
improved our understanding of the spread of marble extraction on the island and its surrounding islets (Bruno 2002; Lazzarini and Canceliere 2000). In 2011, a further survey …
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PIRGON | BIRROS
Pirgon Quarry is the largest quarry of white marble in Greece and one of the largest worldwide. The quarry is located in Drama of Northern Greece, near the village of Pirgon and it is spread in 28 layers with excellent …
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Marble Crafts Museum in Tinos, Greece | Greeka
Location: Panormos. The Museum of Marble Crafts in Tinos, Cyclades: The Museum of Marble Crafts, outside the village of Pyrgos in Tinos, presents the history of marble-crafting on the island, from the ancient times till today. Tinos is an island with rich marble quarries and this is why it gave birth to so many marble sculptors, like Giannoulis ...
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6.12. Unidentified male statue base showing signature of …
N. Asgarı, "The Roman and Early Byzantine Marble Quarries of Proconnesus," in E. Akurgal (ed.), Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Classical ... B. Burrell, Neokoroi: Greek Cities and Roman Emperors (Leiden 2004). _____, "Phrygian for Phrygians: Semiotics of 'Exotic' Local Marble," ASMOSIA
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Underground quarries in the area of Agiades, Samos Island, Greece …
quarrymen and craftsmen working at the marble quarries of the area (Carpenter and Boyd, 1977, 208). e) Black-glazed shards of archaic and classical date with inscribed dedications to
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(PDF) Putting Underground Built Heritage at the Heart of …
The ancient white marble quarries located in the I sland of Paros (Greece) represent one of the underg round built heritage (hereinafter UBH) cases selecte d within the C OST Action CA 18110 ...
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Marble Marvels: A Historic Hike on Mount Penteli
Thursday, 06 May 2021. Mount Penteli is one of the four ranges that cradle Athens and at 1,006 metres, is the second highest summit after Mount Parnitha. The mountain is world-famous for its marble which has long been prized for its purity. The marble quarries there operated from around the 6th century B.C. until the 1940s and yielded the vast ...
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Three ancient marble quarries found in Greece, with …
Three ancient marble quarries in the municipality of Caristo, on the island of Euboea. The discovery was made by the companies that …
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