- Mons
Porphyrites (today
Jabal Abu Dukhkhan) is the
mountainous site of a
group of
ancient quarries in the Red Sea
Hills of the
Eastern Desert in Egypt...
- south-central
British Columbia. To the
Romans it was
known as
Lapis porphyrites.
Pliny the Elder's
Natural History (36, 11)
affirmed that the "Imperial...
-
total about 60
million tons.
There are
numerous deposits of granites,
porphyrites, and
marbles which, when polished,
acquire a
smooth surface of beautiful...
- the Wheel? And How Did They Do It?". Wired. Pea****, D. P. S. "Mons
Porphyrites". In
Kathryn A. Bard;
Steven Blake Shubert (eds.).
Encyclopedia of the...
-
desert by the Wádee Tarfa,
joins the
roads to the
quarries of the Mons
Porphyrites. At the
beginning of the 19th century, when
Napoleonic surveys were made...
- (low grade) ore
deposit of copper,
consisting of
porphyry rocks Mons
Porphyrites, the only
porphyry quarry worked in the
ancient world for the emperor's...
-
Cominius Leugas. The
location of the site,
known to the
Romans as Mons
Porphyrites, was lost for many
centuries until rediscovered in the 19th century....
-
Eastern Desert with
Particular Reference to Mons Claudi**** and Mons
Porphyrites", in Mattingly,
David J.; Salmon, John (eds.),
Economies Beyond Agriculture...
- not of feldspar. They are thus
distinguished from the
porphyries and
porphyrites in
which the
feldspar has
crystallized in two generations. They are essentially...
- Röding, 1798
Turbo petholatus var.
humerosus M. Smith, 1907 ·
Turbo porphyrites [sic, porphyria] (misspelling of porphyria)
Turbo roxas Bozzetti, 2019...
