Krokeai (quarry)
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36.88, 22.54
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- Imagery location of quarry (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 D4
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Krokeai. According to the Oxford Roman Economy Project, this quarry was a source of a dark green serpentine known either as porfido verde di Grecia or serpentino. This stone was used from the Late Bronze Age (Mycenaeans) to the Roman Imperial period.
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Krokeai (quarry): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/572298> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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