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Hereke

Quarry

Coordinates: 40.78°N 29.61°E

Turkey / Bithynia et Pontus

Location

Details

Stone:

Breccia, Coloured Marble,

Bibliography:

Dodge 1988: 71

Location:

Along the coast west of Nicomedia, close to Gebze, Bithynia

Material:

Marble breccia (breccia di Hereke); used locally in the Roman Imperial period and probably earlier

Bibliography

Dodge 1988.

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