Quarry 34—The Main Quarry
Maria Nilsson, Adrienn Almásy-Martin, John Ward · 2023
figure 25 Topographic overview of Q34, marked with its partitions line drawing by maria nilssonThe main plateau transportation road borders the quarry to the east, while the Nile and two main quays are situated some 50m to the west, and is reached via two long corridors (Partitions A and G).Overall, the quarry is in a good state of preservation, although several quarry faces have partially collapsed during antiquity, presumably caused by an earthquake based on geological evidence.No modern quarrying has taken place here.Archaeological, topographical and epigraphical material indicates not one, but two quarries during the Pre-Roman period.Each quarry had its own transportation corridor: the northern and southern corridors respectively.The two quarries were separated in the south by a quarry wall (now Q34.C17-21; F1, 17), which was broken through at the time of Augustus or Tiberius.A preserved Roman ramp currently connects the two quarries and gives an impression of one large quarry, and it is in accordance with its current form that it has been divided into seven partitions (Fig. 25), arranged as follows: North: -Partition A-the northern corridor -Partition B-the northern section