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Kara Göl

Quarry

Coordinates: 38.17°N 26.78°E

Turkey / Asia

Location

Details

Stone:

Marble, Breccia, Coloured Marble,

Location:

Beneath the lake of Kara Göl, near Teos

Material:

Two varieties of marble, one grey, the other a grey-brown breccia with pink, white, red, yellow and black shades (africano or marmor lucullum); both exported inter-regionally in the Roman Imperial period, the latter most widely

Bibliography

Ballance 1966: 79-81; Mielsch 1985: 54; Fant 1987; Gnoli 1988: 174-178; Fant 1989; Fant 1989; Pensabene - Lazzarini 1998.

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