Marble quarry near Simitthus
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R.B. Hitchner Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: R.B. Hitchner Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jun 11, 2018 06:11 PM
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tags:
giallo antico,
marble
An unnamed marble quarry near Simitthus (modern Chemtou, Tunisia). The marble variety is known as marmor numidicum or giallo antico.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/318615
36.4929298436, 8.57748845922
- OSM location of Chemtou: Roman deep marble quarrying (30 BC - AD 640)
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mine, quarry
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 32 C4
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: N Simitthu
R.B. Hitchner, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Stefano Costa, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Marble quarry near Simitthus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/318615> [accessed: 09 December 2018]
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