Definition of Porphyrites. Meaning of Porphyrites. Synonyms of Porphyrites

- 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...
- Eastern Desert with Particular Reference to Mons Claudi**** and Mons Porphyrites", in Mattingly, David J.; Salmon, John (eds.), Economies Beyond Agriculture...
- 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....
- the only porphyry quarry worked in the ancient world is in Egypt. Mons Porphyrites was quarried to supply the rare and expensive imperial porphyry for the...
- Röding, 1798 Turbo petholatus var. humerosus M. Smith, 1907 · Turbo porphyrites [sic, porphyria] (misspelling of porphyria) Turbo roxas Bozzetti, 2019...