Granite

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Royal statuary was often made of red granite, which were used to invoke the regenerative properties of the solar cycle and the connection between the kingship and the sun. The obelisk of Senussret at Heliopolis was made of red granite.

Bowls, vases, coffins, statues, obelisks, stela,

they also certainly quarried red, gray and black granite from [|Aswan]

The granite quarries at [|Aswan], which were first exploited at least as early as the beginning of Pharaonic times, are still in use today.

Tumbos in modern Sudan Black granite was mined in [|Aswan]
 * Upper Egypt** - Gabal el Asr in [|Nubia]

Stone vessels are the earliest use of granite, in the [|Pre-dynastic period] - The sculpture of large granite [|statues] in Upper Egypt. The colossal seated statues of [|Amenhotep 2] are the largest examples - Granite was also used in the erection of architectural elements such as columns, [|obelisks], [|sphinxes], pavement tiles and veneer on walls - In the [|Ptolemaic period] black granite was used in the carvings monumental stelae and slabs The famous Rosetta stone, is a black granite slab The outer casing of Menkaure's pyramid was pink granite.