Athens and her quarries
Pentelicon quarry
Marble for the column capital
Sockets for wedges and levers
Splitting the block from the parent rock
Preparing to cut away excess marble
Removing excess marble
Squaring the block
Overturning the block to work on the underside
Stages in the formation of the column capital
Assembling a timber sledge
Hoisting the block to the quarry entrance
Descending to the loading platform
Loading the capital onto the large wagon
On the road to Athens
On the eastern outskirts of the city
Passing the south slope of the Acropolis
From the ramp to the Propylon via the "balanced wagon" method
At the work site to the east of the Parthenon
Dilemma: greater economy or greater security?
Work site after the Persian attack
Same site, fifty years later
Time future.