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View of the landscape surrounding the city of Edessa

Temple with hexastytle plan and Doric columns.

Temple with hexastytle plan and Doric columns.

The main summit, called Kokkinarás, yields white Pentelic marble from its north slope, that was used for many buildings and sculptures in Athens during the 5th and 4th centuries BC.

From the Mount Pentelicus was pull out the Pentelic marble that was used for many buildings and sculptures in Athens during the 5th and 4th centuries BC.

Karystos was an important site of extraction of the Karystian marble, one of the most renowned and widespread marbles in Roman Era.

This was probably a funerary monument, maybe dedicated to Laomedon, general of Alexander the Great.