Diorite Quarries In The Sinai

(Pdf is pp. 1-3 of the article — for the full pdf, write to [email protected]) Study of Harwerre's inscription at Serabit el-Khadim (IS 90; year 6 of Amenemhat III). Part 1 offers a philological discussion and new translation of this

Predynastic times in order to make vessels extensive quarry operations would not have been needed, and traces of this working are not likely to have persisted to the present day. Doubtless, too, the stone used was often taken from blocks that had fallen from ... 1 J. Ball, The Geog. and Geol. of West-Central Sinai, 1916; basalt, 10, 122-4 ...

Nearly all the ancient quarries for limestone, travertine and chert were located in the hills and cliffs bordering the Nile River valley between Cairo in the north and Isna in the south. ... granite, granodiorite, quartz diorite, diorite, and pyroxenite (plutonic intrusives); andesite and dolerite porphyries as well as other porphyritic rocks ...

This paper considers the current state of evidence for pharaonic quarrying and mining, including the results of fresh fieldwork at a number of previously neglected sites, such as the Hatnub …

The Palermo-stone also mentions expeditions the the Sinai and to the exotic land of Punt, as well as to the diorite quarries North-West of Abu Simbel, thus far into Nubia. - History - A statue of Sahure shows him wearing the nemes headdress. 5th Dynasty : History : Userkaf :

The NE area of Quneia Diorite along the Sinai coast consists of a hornblende granodiorite intrusion with mainly gently dipping magmatic flow foliations and sub-horizontal flow-oriented hornblende ...

The Gebel el-Asr gneiss was originally described as 'diorite' by Egyptologists, but modern analyses of the stone have identified it as a form of gneiss. ... in the excellent guide to the geology of all Egyptian stones and …

The Palermo-stone also mentions expeditions the the Sinai and to the exotic land of Punt, as well as to the diorite quarries North-West of Abu Simbel, thus far into Nubia. - History - A statue of …

In Sinai, two expeditions at l0-year intervals are recorded at Wadi Maghara. He also sent expeditins to the diorite quarries at the west of Abu Simbel, to Byblos and the land of Punt. His …

Under Sahure, the turquoise quarries in the Sinai were exploited (probably at Wadi Maghara and Wadi Kharit), along with the diorite quarries in Nubia. Sahure is further attested by a statue …

Igneous rocks used by the ancient Egyptians include granite, granodiorite, pegmatitic diorite, peridotite, and quartz diorite (plutonic intrusives); andesite, dacite, dolerite, rhyolite, and trachyandesite porphyries (volcanic dikes and lava flows); basalt and obsidian (volcanic lava flows); and tuff (volcanic pyroclastics).

The Gebel el-Asr quarry is an almost invisible site in the south-west of Egypt, located some 65km north-west of Abu Simbel. It is also known as Chephren's Quarry and …

The Palermo-stone also mentions expeditions the the Sinai and to the exotic land of Punt, as well as to the diorite quarries North-West of Abu Simbel, thus far into Nubia. - History - A statue of Sahure shows him wearing the nemes headdress. Old …

The petrogenesis of late Neoproterozoic gabbro/diorite intrusion at Sheikh El-Arab area, central Sinai, Egypt Michael Dawood & Doris Sadek Ghabrial & Hilmy Essa Moussa & Mohamed Wahbi Ali-Bik

Dr Robert Sturm (Austria) This is the third of four articles on the quarries of the ancient world and later, and, in particular, the marble that was quarried there and the works of art made from it. ... The so-called 'Felsenmeer' in the German Odenwald represents a large deposit of rounded quartz-diorite blocks formed by so-called 'wool ...

Little, O.H. "Preliminary Report on Some Geological Specimens from the "Chephren Diorite" Quarries, Western Desert." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 33 (1933), pp. 75-80. Publisher Service des Antiquités. Author O.H. Little. Download PDF. People 1 Collapse or Expand. Modern People ...

Gebel el-Asr is the only quarry in Egypt that produced three varieties of metamorphic gneiss, prized by the Egyptians from the Predynastic …

Some of the notable stone quarries during the Pharaonic Period include Gebel es-Silsila for sandstone, Tura and Ma'sara for fine white limestone, Qua el-Kebir for very hard limestone, Gebel el-Asr for Diorite, Hatnub and Wadi el-Garawi (near Helwan) for Egyptian alabaster (calcite), Gebel Qatrani for basalt, various types of granite from Wadi ...

The quarries of Aswan and Fintin and the quarries of the first cataract were mentioned in the ancient documents since the Sixth Dynasty, 11 in addition to this a quarry in a …

The quarry is on the left bank of the Bersella creek (Las region, 1,150 meters. a.s.l.) stretching for about 2 hectares, in the west area of famous dioritic plutonic rocks. This is the place of the so called "Light Diorite", an extremely hard stone distinguished by medium/large granules and a light grey colour (due to the high amount of ...

We also know that under Sahure, the turquoise quarries in the Sinai were worked (Probably at Wadi Maghara and Wadi Kharit, along with the diorite quarries in Nubia. Above: Sahure's pyramid at Abusir. Sahure was further attested to by a …

Polished rock slab images of hornblende diorite can be seen at the Ancient Egyptian Quarries website (section 16). This rock is sometimes called 'black and white diorite', 'porphyry', 'porphyritic rock', or 'syenite' in the archeological …

Quarries in the Nile valley from Isna southward into northern Sudan supplied the sandstone. Rock gypsum and rock anhydrite were obtained from Egypt's Red Sea coast, and rock gypsum also came from the Faiyum in the Western Desert.

The site is frequently referred to elsewhere as the 'Chephren diorite quarries' since it has long been recognized as the source of the blue-grey banded metamorphic rock from which six life-size seated statues of the 4th-Dynasty pharaoh Chephren (2520-2494 BC) were carved.

A graffito in Wadi Maghara shows that he continued his father's work in Sinai, and a stela in the diorite quarries of the Nubian shows that he also continued this work till the south of the First …

the names and coordinates of the quarry localities as well as their stone types and general ages. Detailed plans of several of the larger, more important quarries (and the associated quarry landscapes) are provided in Figures 7–8, 19, 21–22, 26, 28 and 32. Nearly all quarries, ex-cept those now under Lake Nasser, were

To acquire resources for the building program, Amenemhat III exploited the quarries of Egypt and the Sinai for turquoise and copper. Other exploited sites includes the schist quarries at Wadi Hammamat, amethyst from Wadi el-Hudi, fine limestone from Tura, alabaster from Hatnub, red granite from Aswan, and diorite from Nubia.

Hassanen (1989) indicated that the Melhega metagabbro–diorite complex in southeastern Sinai originated from magmas related to a subduction zone in a transitional ocean floor to arc environment. Madbouli (1991) studied the gabbroic rocks of southern Sinai, especially El Mahash, El Bida, Feiran, Sa'al and Melhega (Fig. 1, inset) and showed ...

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