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Location:

  • Egypt, Ad Dahhār
  • geo:27.54302,33.130669
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 2xxx / unknown

Class:

  • Workshop or industry
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=33481

Annotations

Gebel Manzal el-Seyl is Early Dynastic volcanic tuff quarry .

Sources:

  1. https://per-storemyr.net/2012/12/28/ten-quarries-of-ancient-egypt-6-gebel-manzal-el-seyl-volcanic-tuff-quarry
  2. Harrell, James A., et al. “An Early Dynastic Quarry for Stone Vessels at Gebel Manzal El-Seyl, Eastern Desert.” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 86, 2000, pp. 33–42. JSTOR     https://www.jstor.org/stable/3822304
  3. James A. Harrell, A stone vessel quarry at Gebel Umm Naqqat: Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 24 -2004, pp. 34-36

Nearby

Gebel Manzal el-Seyl

Gebel Manzal el-Seyl volcanic tuff quarry


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2017-01-14. Last update by p. jeffries on 2026-01-29. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/33481 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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