Resumen de Ancient marble and alabaster quarries near Hierapolis in Phrygia (Turkey): new data from archaeological surveys
The paper concerns the results of research conducted in 2005-2007 in the ancient territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia, in cooperation with the Italian Archaeological Mission. During the archaeological surveys in the area surrounding the city, numerous ancient quarries (many of them previously unknown) of white marble, polychrome breccia and alabaster were identified. They were used extensively for urban buildings and necropolises from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine period. The alabaster (the so-called listato and fiorito types), identified as the "coloured marble" of Hierapolis mentioned in Classical and Byzantine literary sources, was also exported in Asia Minor and in the Mediterranean basin
