Gebel dokhan

The six-week season was divided between excavation and the continuation of survey work. It was the Romans who first exploited the stone on a massive scale, and recent excavations by British archaeologists have identified exactly when the Romans came to Gebel Dokhan. Location: km west of Hurghada, Eastern Desert.

Mineralogy, petrology and occurrence. Southampton and Exeter: Universities of Southampton and Exeter.

A sample of grey andesite, from ~4m lower in the succession, has a . It was reserved for imperial use in Rome and Constantinople and widely reused in Romanesque and Renaissance times. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Current editors: A. Chaniotis Corsten Papazarkadas Tybout. A et C novas adfert lectiones e J. Tipo litologico, Porfido rosso antico. Classificazione petrologica, porfido andesitico-dacitico.

Provenienza, Egitto - Mar Rosso - Gebel Dokhan.

Greek name: Πορφυρίτης - Πορφυρίτου Ὄρος - Πορφυριτικὰ Μέταλλα. Egyptian name: Coptic name: Other: Modern name: Gebel Dokhan. The remote quarrying complex of Mons.

The site is the only known source of the famous purple. Dokhan-volcanics Late Proterozoic volcanics, mainly acid (silica-rich). Named in Egypt after Gebel Dokhan , the source area of “imperial porphyry”. Dunite Ultramafic rock consisting mainly of olivine and some pyroxene.

Dynasty Era referred to in Ancient . Archaeologists in particular have directed their attention to specific mining sites like Las Médulas, Roşia Montană, and Dolaucothi, or offered detailed analysis of quarrying sites such as Gebel Dokhan , Gebel Fatirah, or Chemtou. These archaeological studies set aside, numerous finds of Latin and Greek inscriptions on . School of Applied Geology, Curtin . Turks and local Pashas, The Poi-phyry Coffer, mischievously, and irretrievably, injured. Volcanics from the type area at Gebel Dokhan , north Eastern. U-Pb zircon dating was undertaken on two samples of Dokhan.

A quartz andesite from the. Christopher Henry Oldham Scaife.

Gebel Dokhan in Egypt, and no where else in the worl has a rich deep purple- red variant known as. IL MONUMENTO AI TETRARCHI - DA COSTANTINOPOLI ALLA SERENISSIMA. Saved in: Main Author: Scaife, C. Porphyry unit has a weighted.