The greywacke quarries were not constantly or intensively exploited. The fact that the stone was
used in private or royal statuary and not as a building stone could have caused its demand to be
less than that of other materials such as granite, limestone or sandstone.
Inscriptions indicated the time lapse between expeditions suggesting that this stone was only
quarried when it was needed, which was not on a regular basis. However, the fact that the
quarries were exploited over all the pharaonic periods makes it hard to determine the intensity of
these activities, the inscriptions represent the base in creating a chronological sequence of
Egyptian activities in the area.
Ibrahim Othman, A. (2017). Extraction and Use of Greywacke in Ancient Egypt. The Scientific Journal of the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Alexandria University, 14(1), 98-123. doi: 10.21608/thalexu.2017.48774
MLA
Ahmed Ibrahim Othman. "Extraction and Use of Greywacke in Ancient Egypt", The Scientific Journal of the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Alexandria University, 14, 1, 2017, 98-123. doi: 10.21608/thalexu.2017.48774
HARVARD
Ibrahim Othman, A. (2017). 'Extraction and Use of Greywacke in Ancient Egypt', The Scientific Journal of the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Alexandria University, 14(1), pp. 98-123. doi: 10.21608/thalexu.2017.48774
VANCOUVER
Ibrahim Othman, A. Extraction and Use of Greywacke in Ancient Egypt. The Scientific Journal of the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Alexandria University, 2017; 14(1): 98-123. doi: 10.21608/thalexu.2017.48774
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