Carrara
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 12, 2025 04:00 PM
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History
tags:
Marble,
mine, quarry
The quarries at Carrara in northern Tuscany produced a range of white marbles that saw limited local use until being widely exploited and exported by the Romans from the first century B.C. onward.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961672314
44.0791804, 10.1023532
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Carrara (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- None
- Carrara part of (analytical) Ager Lunensis Survey area (unspecified date range)
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quarry, settlement-modern
- See Further:
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Carrara: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961672314> [accessed: 16 May 2026]
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