OUMNH Number: | 833 |
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Name and quarry location: | Granito rosso antico minuto, from between Aswan and Shellal District, Nile Valley, Egypt |
Geological description: | A fairly fine-grained hornblende biotite granite/granodiorite hybrid. |
Comments: | This stone is intermediate between Harrell's variety 'b' and 'c' of the Aswan granites and granodiorites described on his website. It is found in a number of localities between Aswan and the Shellal district. |
References: | Borghini (1997) 225-226; Corsi (1845) 210-213; Harrell (2010a); Lazzarini (2002c) 228-229; Mielsch (1985) 67, taf.22; Price (2007) 220-221; Watson (1911) 43-45 |
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Corsi's classification: | Class 16. Granites; i. Antique granite |
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Corsi's text: | 206.21 Granito antico. Marmor Syenite. Marmo Sienite... [trovata] presso la città di Siene sul confine fra Egitto, e l'Etiopia... Pyrrhopoecilon... Psaronion...Aethiopicum perchè... era Siene sul confine dell' Etiopia. |