The study of marble trade in antiquity has received a lot of scholarly attention in the last few decades; however, numerous deposits of high-quality white marble in the Thracian interior have only recently become pivotal in Bulgaria. Following the establishment of Thrace as a Roman province, investments into transport infrastructure, urban and rural construction works and monumentalizing architecture in marble have led to an increased demand for stone. Local marble quarries close to urban centres and larger imperial quarries were used for civic buildings, villas and sanctuaries. Provenance analysis of marble quarries and artefacts has established a close link between the place of origin and subsequent place of use. This multi-disciplinary study explores marble sources in the Thracian interior via various approaches such as epigraphy, archaeology, and archaeometry regarding urbanization, trade, and transportation. In this paper, we consider and investigate the Berkovitsa marble, a quarry close to Montana in northwestern Bulgaria, and present a broader framework for the marble trade of the region.

过去几十年来，对古代大理石贸易的研究受到了学术界的广泛关注。然而，色雷斯内陆大量优质白色大理石矿床直到最近才成为保加利亚的关键。色雷斯成为罗马行省后，对交通基础设施、城乡建设工程以及大理石纪念性建筑的投资导致了对石材的需求增加。靠近城市中心的当地大理石采石场和较大的皇家采石场被用于建造民用建筑、别墅和避难所。对大理石采石场和文物的出处分析在原产地和随后的使用地之间建立了密切的联系。这项多学科研究通过有关城市化、贸易和交通的金石学、考古学和考古学等多种方法探索色雷斯内陆的大理石来源。在本文中，我们考虑并调查了保加利亚西北部蒙大拿州附近的贝尔科维察大理石采石场，并为该地区的大理石贸易提出了更广泛的框架。