Quarry blocks in "marmor Iassense" from the Balik Pazari at Iasos (Turkey)

• Autores: Matthias Bruno
• 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. 706-714
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the 70's of the last century a large Roman mausoleum of the 2nd century AD, known locally at Iasos as Balik Pazari and situated a few hundred meters outside the ancient city walls, was excavated by the Italian Archaeological Mission. In the area of the portico surrounding the square courtyard, a huge amount of more than hundred parallelepipedal Iasian marble quarry blocks was discovered. The blocks were afterwards moved outside the Balik Pazari, now housing the local Antiquarium, and stockpiled chaotically in area close by. In 2007 the Italian Archaeological Mission, directed by Fede Berti, decided to rearrange the display of these quarry blocks and so the items were moved and systematically studied. About 114 quarry blocks were catalogued, some of them bearing quarry marks and inscriptions and by half partially sawn up by ancient working activity for large size slab production