STUDY ON ANCIENT MARBLES FROM IASOS OF CARIA

The scope of research is taking samples which are pieces of marble at Ancient City of Iasos in this article. Samples from the various monuments of the ancient city of Iasos were analysed to determine the mineralogical-petrographic characteristics and the chemical composition. The main objectives of this research are the investigation of the basic chemical characteristics of these marbles. This article contained part of mineralogical and petrographic study and quantitative chemical composition analysis of these kind of marble. All these data compared information marble cave that territory of an Ancient City of Iasos such as Kalınağıl marbles. Considering results of analysis; marbles of Ancient City of Iasos had low metaformism, granoblastic texture and % 99 Calcite (CaCO3) chemical compositions. According to the results, marbles properties of Ancient City of Iasos are close to in the quarries in the Muğla region. It has been determined that it is suitable sampling to be taken for conservation test in laboratory from these sources.