This is the first study of the particularly interesting network of quarries and roads in southern Euboea. The quarries were a major source of Cippolino marble in Roman times. The study presents a survey and examination of the quarries and roads serving them and analyses of samples of marble collecte...

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Format:	Book
Language:	German
Published:	Leiden [u.a.] Brill 1996
Series:	Monumenta Graeca et Romana 8
Subjects:	Marmergroeven Romeinse oudheid Wegen Marble industry and trade > Greece > Euboea Island Quarries and quarrying > Greece > Euboea Island Roads, Roman > Greece > Euboea Island Romans > Greece > Euboea Island Römerstraße Marmorbruch Straßenbau Griechenland Römisches Reich Euboea Island (Greece) > Antiquities, Roman Euböa
Summary:	This is the first study of the particularly interesting network of quarries and roads in southern Euboea. The quarries were a major source of Cippolino marble in Roman times. The study presents a survey and examination of the quarries and roads serving them and analyses of samples of marble collected there. The inaccessibility of the quarries has meant that the quarries and the road systems around them have been unusually well preserved but also that existing literature on the area is scanty and far from accurate. The material discussed here is of great historical, economic and technological significance. The preliminary mapping and registration offered here is of further value in the attempt to save the materials from further deterioration and destruction.
Physical Description:	X, 53, 128 S. überw. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:	9004104844