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

Minore

 

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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