White marble
Cleopatra Marble
Also sold as Cleopatra White · Cleopatra Marble
Creamy white — the lightest ground Egypt quarries in volume.
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Drag the slab to turn it, or use the arrow keys. Switching finish re-renders the surface — polished throws a hard specular, the abraded finishes open the surface up and knock the colour back.
Cleopatra is the only stone in our marble range listed as white rather than cream or beige, and the qualification matters: it is an off-white with a creamy cast, not a cold white. The movement is shadow rather than vein — soft grey passages drifting through the ground instead of the hard graphic lines the classic Italian whites are bought for. That makes it a straightforward material to run across large wall areas, because there is nothing in the figure that has to be lined up panel to panel. It is supplied as blocks, slabs, tiles, cut-to-size, sills and mosaic, polished, honed or brushed; steps are not on the list. Availability is medium and by selected block, and that is the practical constraint on the stone: the palest, cleanest ground is picked off the face rather than run continuously, so quantity and tone have to be agreed together rather than one after the other.
Galala Extra is the other selected light grade, but it is a selection out of the Galala beige — a near-uniform cream that behaves as a neutral. Cleopatra starts from a genuinely whiter ground and keeps some grey shadowing rather than going flat.
- Material
- Marble
- Colour
- White
- Origin
- Eastern Desert, Egypt
- Availability
- Medium — selected blocks
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Brushed
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Window sills and thresholds, Mosaic
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Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Cleopatra in the yard
We are photographing this material now. Until the shoot is done, the turning slab and the close-up below are renderings, and the honest answer to “what does it actually look like” is a sample in your hand.
No photographs yet. Ask us for the current slab and block photographs of Cleopatra — we shoot them on request, in the yard, with a scale in frame. A cut sample goes out by courier the same week.
Laid out
Cleopatra across a floor
A photograph shows one slab on a stand. This shows the stone tile after tile — where the pattern repeats, how far the tone drifts across a batch, and what the joint does to it. Every tile here is cut from a different part of the surface, the way material comes out of a real crate.
Indicative layout. Tone drift is deliberate — no two tiles from one batch match exactly, and a laid floor should never look like one photograph repeated.
In the room
Cleopatra against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Cleopatra on the floor, up the wall or across a worktop, set the colour it will actually sit against, and change the light — the same three questions every client asks on a site visit, answered before the sample ships.
A scene, not a render of your project: proportions are indicative and colour on a screen is never the colour in a room. Send us the drawings and we will lay the real slab sizes out against your setting-out.
Surface
Cleopatra, close up
The slab above turns; this is the same stone at the size it sits in your hand. Change the finish and it re-cuts.
Roughly a 130 mm span of Cleopatra, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Cleopatra is used
- Wall cladding
- Interior flooring
- Bathrooms
- Vanity tops
- Feature walls
Suitability depends on the finish, the thickness and the exposure. If you are specifying for external cladding, wet areas or heavy traffic, send us the detail and we will tell you what we would put in that position.
Technical
Egyptian beige / cream marble — typical range
| Property | Typical value | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Bulk density | 2,600 – 2,720 kg/m³ | EN 1936 |
| Water absorption | 0.10 – 0.45 % | EN 13755 |
| Compressive strength | 70 – 110 MPa | EN 1926 |
| Flexural strength | 8 – 14 MPa | EN 12372 |
| Abrasion resistance | 20 – 26 mm | EN 14157 |
| Frost resistance | Passes 48 cycles (selected stones) | EN 12371 |
| Mohs hardness | 3 – 4 | — |
| Reaction to fire | Class A1 | EN 13501-1 |
These are indicative ranges for this stone family, published so you can size a design early. They are not a test certificate. For the stone you select we arrange water absorption, flexural strength and abrasion tests at an accredited laboratory before you close a specification.
Formats
How Cleopatra is supplied
Blocks
Quarry blocks selected and squared. Typical 2.6 – 3.0 × 1.5 × 1.5 m, 18 – 30 tonnes. Sold by m³, loaded on flat rack or in-container with steel cradles.
Gangsaw slabs
Full-size slabs from the gangsaw. Marble typically 2.6 – 3.0 × 1.6 – 1.9 m in 2 cm and 3 cm; granite 2 cm and 3 cm. Bundled by block so vein sequence is preserved.
Tiles
Calibrated tiles in 30×30, 30×60, 40×40, 60×60, 60×120 cm and free length, 1.0 – 3.0 cm. Edges straight-cut or bevelled, back-mesh on request.
Cut-to-size
Worked to your drawings — worktops, vanity tops, cladding panels, mitres, cut-outs, drainage grooves, undermount polishing. Supplied piece-marked to a setting-out plan. How a cut-to-size order runs
Window sills and thresholds
Sills, copings and thresholds with drip groove, polished ends and mitred returns.
Mosaic
Mesh-mounted mosaic in square, hexagon, basketweave and herringbone, polished, honed or tumbled.
Also in marble
Stones that sit alongside it
Breccia Sinai
Cream and rust fragments locked in a pale matrix.
Sinai Peninsula360° →
Beige Dune
Sand-toned beige with a long, drifting figure.
Eastern Desert360° →
Galala Gold
Galala with a gold thread running through the beige.
Galala Mountain360° →
Khatmeya
Warm pearl-yellow ground with a soft, drifting figure.
Eastern Desert360° →
Asked about this stone
Cleopatra — questions buyers ask
How white is it really?
Off-white with a cream cast — the lightest ground Egypt quarries in volume, but not a cold white. Set against a white-painted wall it will read warm; set against any of the Egyptian beiges it reads clearly lighter.
Will slabs from different blocks match?
Not reliably. Supply is by selected block and the brightness of the ground is exactly what the selection is made on. Take the full quantity from one selection and agree the tone before the blocks are cut.
Polished or honed for a vanity top?
Honed, in most cases. It stops short of gloss and is far more forgiving of scratching than a polish, which shows every mark on a ground this light. Keep the polish for wall cladding and feature panels, where nothing touches the surface.
Can we get stair treads in it?
Steps are not one of the formats we list for Cleopatra — it runs as blocks, slabs, tiles, cut-to-size, sills and mosaic. If the stair is part of the same scheme, raise it before you close the specification.
Get a quote on Cleopatra.
Send the stone, the finish, the thickness and the destination port. You get a quote with an FOB and a CIF price, a lead time and photographs of the actual material.
We reply within one working day · Saturday – Thursday, 08:00 – 18:00 Cairo time · WhatsApp +20 106 926 2572
Family business since 1991 · Factory in Alexandria · 50 % in advance · 30 % on approval after production · 20 % before shipping · Reply within one working day