Mineralogical, Petrographic and Stable Isotopic Study of Ancient White Marble Quarries in Thessaly, Greece - Ii. Chasanbali, Tempi, Atrax, Tisaion Mountain

Melfos, Vasilios; Voudouris, Panagiotis; Παπαδοπούλου, Λ.; Sdrolia, S.; Helly, Bruno

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“…The present study focuses on five white marble quarries in Tempi, Tisaion Mountain in Magnesia, Pangaio Mountain in Kavala, Hymittos and Penteli from Attica. The results of this study provide additional data and complete the databases presented in previous work of (Craig and Craig 1972, Coleman and Walker 1979, Germann et al 1980, Herz 1987, Tsirambides 1996, Gorgoni et al 2002, Capedri et al 2004, Melfos 2004, Melfos et al 2010).…”

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Stable Isotopic Composition of Carbonate Materials for Determination of the Origin of Marble Artifacts

Karalis

Tassi

Heliades

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Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

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In this study we present the isotopic signatures of quarries located in North-East (Tempi, Tisaion, Pangaio), Southern (Hymittos, Penteli) Greece in order to enrich the existing databases used in ancient marble provenance. This expansion of the databases will enhance our understanding in the archaeological characterization of ancient monuments and potentially determine economic and cultural associations and trade routes. Furthermore, it will reduce the overlap of the isotopic signals of marbles in the up to now databases, enhancing the dissemination and facilitate the provenance studies of the ancient marble monuments .

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Stable Isotopic Composition of Carbonate Materials for Determination of the Origin of Marble Artifacts

Karalis

Tassi

Heliades

et al. 2021

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

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“…Marble, however, although by no means abundantly available, outcrops in quite a few Greek locations in both the mainland and the Aegean islands (e.g. Herz 1992; Maniatis et al 2009; Melfos 2015; Melfos, Stratouli and Voudouris 2020; Melfos et al 2010), and virtually every community could procure it in more or less regional sources. The fact that some groups chose a ‘costly’ approach, bypassing these sources for other, much more distant ones, underlines the extraordinary position that exotica had in the Aegean Neolithic imaginary (see also Perlès 1992).…”

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Mending Fragments: Stone Vessels From Franchthi and Other Greek Neolithic Sites

Stroulia

2020

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Stone vessels represent one of the rarest artifactual categories of Neolithic Greece. Only several dozen specimens (mostly fragmentary) have been recovered from 65 sites. These objects are also some of the least studied; with few exceptions, they are known only through superficial reports. Thus, their potential to shed light on social and economic aspects of Neolithic life remains unexploited. In this article, I address this problem in two ways. First, I focus on a specific stone vase assemblage: that from the well-known site of Franchthi in the north-eastern Peloponnese. This is one of the largest assemblages and is presented here in detail. Secondly, I use the Franchthi assemblage as a point of departure to attempt a synthesis of the available information on Greek Neolithic stone vases.

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“… 35 Nearby marble extraction sites, which were active during the Hellenistic period, include the quarries at Gonnoi (Karagiorgou 2001, 174–5; Melfos 2004, 1169–70; Kokkorou-Alevra et al 2014, 76), in the Tempe valley (Karagiorgou 2001, 171–2; Melfos et al 2010, 850–1; Kokkorou-Alevra et al 2014, 77) and at Kastri (Papageorgakis 1963, 566–8; Gast, German and Eilert 1979, 53; Higgins and Higgins 1996, 92; Karagiorgou 2001, 172; Melfos, Vavelidis and Theodorikas 2002, 1538–9; Kokkorou-Alevra et al 2014, 75). During the Roman and Byzantine periods, marble was also extracted at Ampelakia (Sythiakaki 1999; Kokkorou-Alevra et al 2014, 75–6) and at Chrapes (Arvanitopoulos 1911, 292; Melfos 2004, 1166–9; Sdrolia 2008, 714; 2012, 585–6; Kokkorou-Alevra et al 2014, 78).…”

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Going to See the Nymphs: Landscape and Religious Experience at the Zar Trypa Cave (Mount Ossa, Thessaly)

Blomley

2023

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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This paper focuses on the little-known but important cave-sanctuary of Zar Trypa on Mount Ossa (modern Kissavos) in north-eastern Thessaly. In 1910, research conducted at the site uncovered remains of votives from the Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods, including a group of eight inscriptions dedicated to the Nymphs. Despite this remarkable epigraphic assemblage, the site was not investigated beyond a single excavation season and today is largely unknown. Consequently, the Zar Trypa cave and its finds have never featured prominently in the discussion of Thessalian religion or of Greek ‘natural’ sanctuaries. Combining archival studies, on-site observations and GIS-based methods of landscape archaeology, this paper sets out to re-assess the surviving archaeological evidence from the Zar Trypa cave, to examine the spatial setting of ritual activity at the site, and to place the cave in the context of Mount Ossa's natural environment and ancient settlement pattern. Drawing on the methodological framework of ‘lived religion’, this assessment not only contributes towards our understanding of ancient religious experiences at the Zar Trypa cave, but also addresses broader questions such as the significance and meaning of ‘sacred travel’ in pre-Christian antiquity.

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Mineralogical, Petrographic and Stable Isotopic Study of Ancient White Marble Quarries in Thessaly, Greece - Ii. Chasanbali, Tempi, Atrax, Tisaion Mountain

Abstract: The present study focuses on the identification of marble sources from four ancient quarries in Thessaly, including Atrax, Tempi, Chasanbali and Tisaion and aims

Cited by 6 publications

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Stable Isotopic Composition of Carbonate Materials for Determination of the Origin of Marble Artifacts

Stable Isotopic Composition of Carbonate Materials for Determination of the Origin of Marble Artifacts

Mending Fragments: Stone Vessels From Franchthi and Other Greek Neolithic Sites

Going to See the Nymphs: Landscape and Religious Experience at the Zar Trypa Cave (Mount Ossa, Thessaly)

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