The memory of marble: Aphrodisias
Story in brief
Place, time and memory on one line.
A world made in one valley by a sanctuary, sculpture workshops and marble quarries.
In the Karacasu plain, Aphrodisias is not merely an ancient city; it is a production landscape where stone became knowledge, craft and exchange. The sanctuaries within the walls and the marble quarries to the northeast are two thresholds of the same story.
Its renowned Roman-era sculpture workshops carried the character of local marble into the Mediterranean world, while the stadium, theatre and Sebasteion face the city’s public life. This dossier follows not one monument but the people who quarried, carved, moved and gave meaning to stone.
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How are the stops in this story connected?
The memory of marble: Aphrodisias reads Aphrodisias, Geyre, Laodikeia, Hierapolis, Miletos together not as one mandatory itinerary, but through a shared region, period, landscape or sourced historical relationship.
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