Lartos was an ancient village on the southeast coast of

Rhodes Rhodes (; el, Ρόδος , translit=Ródos ) is the largest and the historical capital of the Dodecanese islands of Greece. Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the So ...

. There is a major

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formation nearby, ''lithos lartios'', a gray-blue stone distinctive of the island, quarried in antiquity largely for local use.For the term ''lithos lartios'', ''Inscriptiones Graecae'' vol. XII, 1, no. 677; ''Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum'', 3rd ed, no. 338, lines 7-8; no. 725, lines 11-12. For the geology of Lartian stone see G. P. Marinos, ed., ''Annales geologiques des pays helleniques'', ser. 1, vol. 22 (1970) pp. 110-112.

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