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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