Mons Claudianus was a Roman quarry in the eastern desert of Egypt.[1] It consisted of a garrison, a quarrying site, and civilian and workers' quarters. Granodiorite was mined for the Roman Empire where it was used as a building material. Mons Claudianus is located in the mountains of the Egyptian Eastern desert about midway between the Red Sea and Qena, in the present day Red Sea Governorate.
Today tourists can see fragments of granite, with several artifacts such as a broken column. A number of texts written on broken pottery (ostraca) have been discovered at the site.
^Sidebotham, S., S. Gillies, A. Prins, J. Thum, J. Becker, T. Elliott, H. Verreth, R. Talbert, M. Depauw (26 October 2013). "Places: 766348 (Mons Claudianus)". Pleiades. Retrieved February 24, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
stone quarry known as Mons Porphyrites, which is the world's only known source of purple porphyry. The excavation of MonsClaudianus by the Romans occurred...
Claudianus may refer to: Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus (fl. 1st century BC), a senator in Roman Republic and father of Livia, Roman empress and Augustus'...
"Stone Quarrying in the Eastern Desert with Particular Reference to MonsClaudianus and Mons Porphyrites", in Mattingly, David J.; Salmon, John (eds.), Economies...
probably cultivated, were found during the excavation of Roman-period MonsClaudianus in Egypt. Varieties of artichokes were cultivated in Sicily beginning...
also as workers, as some of them were sent to the granite mines of MonsClaudianus. Other legionaries were sent in the deepest south of the Egyptian province...
centuries AD. The other imperial quarries in the Eastern Desert were MonsClaudianus, Mons Ophiates and Tiberiane. These four quarries were probably under...
contain large sections of granodiorite. Granodiorite was quarried at MonsClaudianus in the Red Sea Governorate in eastern Egypt from the 1st century AD...
"Stone Quarrying in the Eastern Desert with Particular Reference to MonsClaudianus and Mons Porphyrites", in Mattingly, David J.; Salmon, John (eds.), Economies...
gr.). 1991: Pages d’épigraphie grecque. Attique-Égypte (1952-1982). MonsClaudianus. Ostraca graeca et latina I (O. Claud. 1 à 190), in collaboration with...
goods such as fabrics and pearls. "Imperial Porphyry" was quarried at MonsClaudianus into the Byzantine era. The Romans set up multiple ports along the...
Van der Veen has studied the food supply to Roman quarry sites MonsClaudianus and Mons Porphyrites in the eastern desert of Egypt, which showed the wide...
"Stone Quarrying in the Eastern Desert with Particular Reference to MonsClaudianus and Mons Porphyrites", in Mattingly, David J.; Salmon, John (eds.), Economies...
cubic foot - more expensive than the valuable Egyptian grey granite of MonsClaudianus, known as granito del foro, and red granite of Aswan, called lapis...
measuring about 10 by 15 centimeters from Roman Egypt, found at the MonsClaudianus quarry, is evidence of organized patchworking. One of the causes of...
Dacian name. A soldier Natopor is known from several ostraca found at MonsClaudianus in eastern Egypt. A Roman military diploma was issued in 127 in Mauretania...
Stone quarrying in the Eastern Desert with particular reference to MonsClaudianus and Mons Porphyrites. In D. Mattingly and J. Salmon. Economies beyond Agriculture...
Possible etymology Attestation Notes Bastiza Name frequently found at MonsClaudianus i.e. two persons have this name on a list of Dacian names, but this...
native of Berytus, an officer serving in the century of Hordeonius at MonsClaudianus in Egypt. Gaius Romanius P. f., twice military tribune, named in an...
Argaeus (a rarely encountered alternative latinization was Argaeas mons, Argeas mons). The Greek name has the meaning of "bright" or "white"; as applied...
so intense that "the ridges seemed to be ablaze" according to Andreas Claudianus, a Norwegian fighting with the Danish infantry.[citation needed] The Jacobite...
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