General considerations on the ancient marble quarries in the territory of Hierapolis and in the southern sector of the Denizli basin: between topography and archaeometry

The paper presents a synthesis and comparison of the archaeometric data regarding the ancient marble quarries in the territory of Hierapolis and in the southern sector of the Denizli basin, which were collected in the last years by the researchers involved in the Marmora Phrygiae Project and by Pamukkale University. the minero-petrographic, c-O isotopic and cathodoluminescence data are integrated with data from previous studies to get a detailed characterization of these marbles. Furthermore, these data are compared with those from the Aphrodisian marble.