Marble Quarries at Karystos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 29, 2023 09:56 AM
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History
A complex quarry landscape near Karystos, heavily exploited especially in Roman times, for highly prized Cipollino Verde (marmor Carystium).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/163292061
38.0377, 24.4469025
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: Roman Quarry (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Marble Quarries at Karystos located near Karystos (unspecified date range)
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quarry
BAtlDir page 882 see "Karystos"
Tom Elliott, 'Marble Quarries at Karystos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/163292061> [accessed: 06 May 2024]
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