Thread: "Turkey stone" quarry?

Recently I was looking on the internet for info on “Candia” stones which are quarried on Crete Island (Greece). I knew there are some business’s selling these stones at present.

I looked further and I came across a very interesting website which showed an actual whetstone quarry which I presume the “Candia” stones came from. But what surprised me is this:

Historical reports to the whetstones of Elounda begun from Homer (Iliad, raps. B, verse 649: cited as “Halkodaman akonan”) and they continued to exist up to the later Ottoman domination in the sightseers’ transcripts. In these documents the whetstones are presented, depending on the time period, as "Naxia stone" (Naxos was a city on the top of Oxa mountain), or as "Turkish Stone" or even as "stone of the East".

Was this one source of the famous “Turkey stone” in the past? It seems very likely!

The website is: www.elounda-village.gr/akoniaen.htm


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