New work on quarrying in the territory of Eretria, Euboea

• B. Russell ^[1] ; S. Fachard ^[2]
  1. [1] King's College London

     King's College London

     Reino Unido

     
  2. [2] École Suisse d'Archéologie en Grèce, Lausanne/Athína (Greece)
• Localización: Interdisciplinary studies on ancient stone: proceedings of the IX Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA) Conference (Tarragona 2009) / coord. por Anna Gutiérrez García-Moreno, María Pilar Lapuente Mercadal, Isabel Rodà de Llanza, 2012, ISBN 978-84-939033-8-1, págs. 612-618
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper presents new evidence for stone extraction in the territory of Eretria on the island of Euboea. Two newly explored areas of coloured marble quarrying are presented, both datable to the Roman or Late Roman period. The first of these, in the vicinity of the ancient fort at Myrtia, is the most northerly green cipollino quarry to be identified to date. The second is a quarrying district near modern Aliveri, where a number of quarries of a pink-red recrystallised limestone almost identical to "marmor Chalcidicum" (fior di pesco) have been identified. Monolithic columns and other roughly-shaped objects can be identified in both areas