Table 2: REUSE OF ROMAN STONES IN THE PRE-OTTOMAN BUILDINGS OF CAIRO, EGYPT

 

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TRADITIONAL ITALIAN NAME      BUILDINGS (monument numbers)      APPLICATIONS

 

africano, var. rosso                        43, 123, 133                                        wall veneer

 

alabastro Egiziano, onice              133                                                    wall veneer

or cotognino

 

basalte verde  , and basanite        112, 120, 121, 123, 125, 130, 133,        wall veneer and floor tiling, especially

                                                     134, 138, 203, 218, 248, 269?              as  trim (narrow strips) around larger

                                                                                                              stone panels

 

bianco e nero antico                     35, 38, 43, 67, 99, 121, 123, 125,         wall veneer

                                                     133, 187, 189, 190, 218, MAB

 

bigio antico, or marmo, di            1, 15?, 31, 32, 43, 67, 97, 99, 121,      wall veneer and floor tiling, and  

Lesbo, and bigio di Asia               130?, 133, 143, 175, 190, 204,             rare columns

Minore                                          218, 220, 248, 319, MAB

 

bigio lumachellato, subvar. of        32, 33, 43, 99, 114, 117, 120, 123,        wall veneer and floor tiling, and

bigio antico di Lesbo                    133, 134, 143, 147, 187, 203, 218?,      columns

                                                     220, 248, 319, 344

 

breccia corallina                           133                                                    floor tiling

 

breccia Medicea, var. of                 66, 120, 147                                        wall veneer

breccia di Serravezza antica

 

breccia rossa Appenninica            66, 130, 133, 190                                 wall veneer and floor tiling

 

breccia di Settebassi, and              24?, 33, 49, 60?, 120, 133?, 319           wall veneer and columns

marmo di Sciro

 

breccia verde d'Egitto or               32, 38, 44, 45, 121, 133, 138, 175,        wall veneer and columns

antica, and centopietre                  190

 

cipollino or cipollino verde          15, 33, 133, 143, 218                           wall veneer and floor tiling, and columns

 

cipollino mandolato                     123                                                    wall veneer

 

cipollino rosso, var. venato           35, 43, 67, 97, 117, 125, 130, 133,        floor tiling and especially wall veneer, 

                                                     187, 190, 218, 242, MAB                     and scarce columns

 

cipollino, or Iassense, rosso          32, 38, 43, 67, 116, 119, 121, 123,        floor tiling and especially wall veneer,

brecciato, and africanone              130, 133, 134, 143?, 190, 203?, 218,    and scarce columns

                                                     220, 221, 255, 281   

    

 

fior di pesco, or persico, and         123, 133, 218, 281?                             wall veneer

marmo rosso di Eretria

                                                                                                                                      

granito bianco e nero,                  66, 123, 133, 138, 175, 190, 203           wall veneer

var. del Cairo

 

granito della colonna                    18, 35, 43, 49, 67, 99, 123, 125,           wall veneer (including rotae)

                                                     133, 134, 152, 175, 189, 190,   203,

                                                     218, 255, 549, MAB

 

granito del foro                             121, 133, 190, 204, 218, MAB              floor tiling and mainly wall veneer, and

                                                                                                              rarely columns

 

granito nero, or bigio,                   18, 33, 43, 67, 119, 120, 121, 123,        columns, wall veneer and floor tiling,

di Siene                                        131, 133, 138, 143, 149, 151, 152,        and door lintels and sills

                                                     175, 182, 184, 189, 190, 204, 211,

                                                     215, 255, 344, MAB

 

granito rosso  di Siene,                 1, 13, 43, 44, 45, 99, 112, 120              columns, door lintels and sills (and

and sienite                                    123, 129, 130,  143, 149, 152, 175        rarely jambs)

                                                     184, 187, 190, 204, 215, 248,

                                                     252, 255, 257, 549, MAB

 

granito violetto                              1, 120, 143                                         columns

 

greco scritto                                 133, 138, 248, 319                               wall veneer and floor tiling, and columns

 

 

marmo Pentelico                          133?, 187                                            floor tiling

 

 

nero antico                                    49?, 67?, 114?, 203?, 218?                   wall veneer and floor tiling, and rarely

                                                                                                              columns

 

occhio di pavone rosso,                32, 116?, 123, 125, 130, 133?, 190,       wall veneer and floor tiling

and pavonazzo                              203, 218

 

pavonazzetto                                32, 43, 67, 123, 130, 133, 147, 190,      wall veneer and rare columns

                                                     319, MAB

 

porfido nero antico                       66, 99, 133, 138, 149, 152, 187, 190     wall veneer and floor tiling

or Egiziano

 

porfido nero grafico                      175, 190                                             wall veneer

 

porfido rosso antico                      24, 32, 35, 43, 49, 67, 97, 99, 114,       wall veneer and floor tiling (including

or Egiziano                                   117, 119, 121, 123, 125, 133,   134,      rotae), and rare columns and door lintels

                                                     147, 149,  152, 175, 187, 189, 190,

                                                     203, 218, 220,  248, 255, 269, 281,

                                                     MAB

 

porfido [serpentino] verde             123, 147, 189, 190                               wall veneer

antico, porfido verde di  

Grecia, and serpentino

 

porfido verde Egiziano                 49, 60, 67, 97, 99, 114, 117, 119,         wall veneer and floor tiling (including

                                                     121,123, 125, 133, 134, 138, 147,         rotae)

                                                     149, 151, 175, 187, 189, 190, 218,

                                                     255, MAB

 

rosso antico                                  120, 123, 133, 187?                             wall veneer

 

serpentina moschinata,                 38, 120,133, 162?, 218                        wall veneer

and verde ranocchia

 

verde antico                                  32, 35, 38, 43, 44, 67, 97, 99, 119,       wall veneer and floor tiling, and

                                                     121, 123, 125, 133,  138, 143, 147,       scarce columns

                                                     149, 175, 187, 189, 190, 203, 218,

255, 549, MAB

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