Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY, cilt.24, sa.3, ss.317-336, 2019 (SCI-Expanded)
The coloured stones used in buildings and monuments were an indicator of power and wealth during the ancient times. In this study, Tripolis city samples have been compared with Tripolis quarry samples in order to recognise the provenance of the banded travertine blocks in the ancient city. The banded travertine samples have similar mineral compositions and mainly consist of calcite with minor amounts of dolomite, aragonite, clay and iron oxide minerals. These results are also supported by CRS studies. Calcite is in the form of needle-shaped crystals ranging between 0.163-1.418 mm (in city) and 0.303-1.270 mm (in quarry). Tripolis banded travertine samples show the similar compositional spread in terms of major oxide, trace elements. delta C-13(V-PDB) values of banded travertines range from 1.93 to 5.25 parts per thousand (in city) and 2.99 to 3.99 parts per thousand (in quarry), delta O-18(V-PDB) values change between (-16.93)-(-10.08) parts per thousand and (-15.93)-(-13.01)parts per thousand, respectively. The U-Th radiometric ages are determined between similar to 267 and 9 ka in Tripolis city samples and similar to 350 and 2 ka in Tripolis quarry samples. The minero-petrographic, geochemical, C-O and U-Th isotope results fairly matched with each other. It seems highly probable that the banded travertines in Tripolis city were extracted from the Tripolis quarry, which is located at the northeast of the antique city with a distance of 3 km.