Table
1: LIST OF REUSED ROMAN STONES FOUND IN THE PRE-OTTOMAN BUILDINGS OF CAIRO,
EGYPT
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TRADITIONAL ITALIAN NAME
ROMAN NAME GEOLOGIC NAME QUARRY LOCATION
africano, var. rosso
marmor luculleum metalimestone breccia Sigacik
near Izmir, central Aegean
coast
of Turkey
alabastro Egiziano, onice lapis alabastrites banded travertine (the several
quarries on the East Bank
or cotognino and lapis onyx so-called "Egyptian of
the Nile between Wadi Assiut in
alabaster") the south and Wadi
Araba in the north, Egypt
basalte verde, and basanite lapis
basanites metagraywacke Wadi
Hammamat, Eastern Desert,
sandstone and siltstone Egypt
bianco e nero antico marmor
celticum or limestone
breccia Aubert near St. Girons, Pyrenees
aquitanicum Mountains, southern France
bigio antico, or marmo, di marmor lesbium marble near
Moria on the Island of Lesbos,
Lesbo, and
bigio di Asia eastern Aegean Sea, Greece
bigio lumachellato, subvar. marmor lesbium fossiliferous marble near
Moria on the Island of Lesbos,
of bigio antico di Lesbo
eastern Aegean Sea, Greece
breccia corallina marmor
sagarium
limestone
breccia near Vezirhan and probably other
sites
in the province of Bilecik (in
ancient Bithynia), northwestern
Turkey
breccia Medicea, var. of unknown brecciated marble Stazzema,
Serravezza and other
breccia di Serravezza antica localities, province of Lucca,
Apuane
Alps, northwestern Italy
breccia rossa Appenninica unknown brecciated marble near Pegazzino and Biassa in the
Apuan
Alps, northwestern Italy
breccia di Settebassi, and marmor scyrium or brecciated marble Island of Skyros, western Aegean
marmo di Sciro scyreticum
Sea, Greece
breccia verde d'Egitto or hexecontalithos
metaconglomerate
Wadi Hammamat, Eastern Desert,
antica, and centopietre and hecatontalithos Egypt
cipollino or cipollino verde marmor carystium chloritic marble Carystos, Styra and other sites
on
the
Island of Euboea, western
Aegean
Sea, Greece
cipollino mandolato unknown brecciated
marble near Pont de la Taule in the
Pyrenees
Mountains, southern
France
cipollino rosso, var. venato marmor carium or veined
marble near Milas (ancient Iasos in Caria),
iassense
southwestern Turkey
cipollino, or Iassense, rosso marmor carium or brecciated marble near
Milas (ancient Iasos in Caria), brecciato, and africanone iassense southwestern
Turkey
fior di pesco, or persico, marmor chalcidicum marble
Eretria
(near ancient Chalcis),
and marmo rosso di Eretria Island
of Euboea, western Aegean
Sea,
Greece
granito bianco e nero, marmor tiberianum quartz diorite Wadi Barud, Eastern Desert,
Egypt
var. del Cairo
granito della colonna unknown
pegmatitic diorite Wadi Umm Shegilat, Eastern
Desert,
Egypt
granito del foro marmor claudianum tonalite
gneiss near Wadi Fatiri el-Bayda (Mons
Claudianus), Eastern Desert, Egypt
granito nero, or bigio, di Siene lapis aethiopicus ? granodiorite
Aswan, First Nile
Cataract, Egypt
granito rosso di Siene, lapis or marmor granite Aswan,
First Nile Cataract, Egypt
and sienite syenites, thebaicus
or pyrropoecilus
granito violetto marmor troadense quartz monzonite Cigri Dag near Ezine, Troad
Peninsula
(ancient Troas),
northwestern
Turkey
greco scritto unknown marble Cap
de Garde near Annaba,
Algeria
marmo Pentelico marmor pentelicum marble
Mount
Pentelicon near Athens,
Greece
nero antico unknown
limestone most prominent is
Gebel Aziz in
Tunisia
but there are other sources
in
Tunisia and Italy, and especially
at
Mani and on Chios Island in
Greece
occhio di pavone rosso, marmor
triponticum fossiliferous
limestone Kutluca, near Izmit (ancient
and pavonazzo and marmor Nicomedia), northwestern
Turkey
pneumonusium
pavonazzetto marmor phrygium, brecciated marble Ischehisar
(ancient Docimium in
docimium or Phrygia), west-central Turkey
synnadicum
porfido nero antico lapis porphyrites andesite-dacite
Gebel Dokhan (Mons
Porphyrites),
or Egiziano niger porphyry Eastern
Desert, Egypt
porfido nero grafico unknown andesite
porphyry ? probably the Gebel Dokhan (Mons
Porphyrites)
area, Eastern Desert,
Egypt
porfido rosso antico lapis porphyrites andesite-dacite
Gebel Dokhan (Mons
Porphyrites),
or Egiziano porphyry Eastern Desert,
Egypt
porfido [serpentino] verde
lapis lacedaemonius andesite-diabase Croceai (near ancient Sparta), antico, porfido verde di
or marmor porphyry Peloponnese, southern
Greece
Grecia, and serpentino lacedaemonium
porfido verde Egiziano lapis hieracitis andesite-dacite Gebel
Dokhan (Mons Porphyrites),
porphyry Eastern Desert,
Egypt
rosso antico marmor taenarium marble Cape Tainaron (or Matapas),
Peloponnese, southern Greece
serpentina moschinata, lapis
batrachites ? serpentinite Wadi
Umm Esh (near Wadi Atalla),
and verde ranocchia Eastern Desert, Egypt
verde antico marmor thessalicum brecciated
ophicalcite near Larisa in Thessaly, northern
Greece.
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