Karagöl and Taşdibi marble quarries and Teos Bay (Kadıoğlu, 2021, 336, Figure 167)
Teos has built a reputation with a colourful marble type which was known especially africano or marmor luculleum (Lucullus Marble) in ancient times. Besides, bigio-Teos Gray has been used locally mostly. These two marble types have been withdrawn from marble quarries of Karagöl, Taşdibi, Turgut-Kesikkaya, Yelki-Kucukkaya and Beyler-Sarıkayalar which all of them are in vicinity of Teos. It is certainly known that Teos Gray and africano have been derived from same quarries, with the existence of veins in both types, which can be seen on the semi-prossesed blocks and ancient cutting marks.
Karagöl antique marble quarry is located in Karagöl region, 3 km northeast of ancient city of Teos. It encompasses an area of 200 m. diameter including a lake of 100 m diameter. The existence of steps on the southern waterside and sudden deepening of the lake make the researches think that the area was used as a quarry. In addition to this, the cut surface of the marbles in Kayadibi region in southeast of the lake and existence of the blocks which have inscriptions supports this hypotheisis. Marmor luculleum-Lucullus Marble or africano, which was named after Roman general and administrator Lucullus (118 – 56 BC) who was introduced the marble with Rome, is a black-dark gray marble type which has got different coloured veins like white, red, brown and green.
Archaeological map of Teos and its surroundings (Kadıoğlu, 2021, 25, Map 4)