DataSpace | Marmora Phrygiae

The project (2013-2016) dealt with the study of the ancient marble, alabaster, and breccia quarries in the territory of Hierapolis of Phrygia (Denizli, Turkey) with a multidisciplinary approach and the reconstruction of the procurement strategies of stone materials for the construction of the buildings urban.

For the characterization of the materials and the determination of the origin, complementary diagnostic investigations were carried out: mineralogical-petrographic, cathodoluminescence analysis, analysis of the stable isotopes of carbon and oxygen, and XRD (X-Ray Diffraction) analysis. These searches have therefore produced a large amount of archaeological and archaeometric data: alphanumeric data resulting from quantitative investigations, textual data, macro photographs of thin sections, XRD spectra, etc.

For the management, exchange, and sharing of digital resources generated by several scientific teams involved and located in Italy and abroad have implemented a geodatabase which unfortunately has not been accessible for years.

You can search for:

Search by type of Cultural Context:

Caves

Monuments

You can filter Objects by:

Era

(e.g. 'Ellenistica', 'Proto-bizantina')

Chronology

(e.g. 'I sec. a.C.', 'prima metà del II sec d.C.')

Type

(e.g. 'zoccolatura', 'stipite')

Material

(e.g. 'Marmo bianco venato', 'breccia')

Search by Analysis type:

Conservation

Characterization

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