Beige marble
Egyptian Botticino Marble
Also sold as Botticino Egypt
The Egyptian answer to the classic Italian botticino.
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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.
Egyptian Botticino exists because specifiers keep writing botticino into hospitality schemes. The ground is a warm, close-grained beige carrying the faint parallel figure the Italian original is known for, and it is used as a like-for-like substitute in flooring and wall cladding at a fraction of the landed cost. What makes the substitution hold together is the format list, which runs the full range: blocks, slabs, tiles, cut-to-size, steps and risers, sills and mosaic. A hotel can take its corridor floor, its stair treads, its skirtings and trim, its window sills and its bathroom mosaic from one material and one colour — which is the part that usually breaks when a substitution is assembled piecemeal from three suppliers. The figure is quiet and close-grained, so the pattern does not shift when the format does. Availability is high, and it is quoted as Botticino Egypt too.
Triesta is the closer choice if you want warmth with no pattern at all — its hairline veins only resolve when you stand next to them. Egyptian Botticino keeps the faint parallel figure, which is precisely what a botticino specification is asking to see.
- Material
- Marble
- Colour
- Beige
- Origin
- Suez / Eastern Desert
- Availability
- High
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Brushed, Antique / aged
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Steps and risers, Window sills and thresholds, Mosaic
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Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Egyptian Botticino 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 Egyptian Botticino — 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
Egyptian Botticino 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
Egyptian Botticino against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Egyptian Botticino 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
Egyptian Botticino, 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 Egyptian Botticino, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Egyptian Botticino is used
- Interior flooring
- Wall cladding
- Stairs
- Hospitality
- Skirtings and trim
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 Egyptian Botticino 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
Steps and risers
Treads with bullnose, half-bullnose or eased edge, anti-slip grooving on request, matched risers and stringers.
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
Goldi
Golden beige, lightly veined, quarried for volume work.
Eastern Desert360° →
Imperial Grey
Silver-grey ground lit by pale crystalline veining.
North Sinai360° →
Imperial Grey Dark
The deep-toned selection of Imperial Grey, veins on charcoal.
North Sinai360° →
Royal Grey
Even mid-grey with a fine, calm figure — a contract floor stone.
Suez / Eastern Desert360° →
Asked about this stone
Egyptian Botticino — questions buyers ask
Is this Italian Botticino?
No. It is an Egyptian marble from the Suez and Eastern Desert quarries with a comparable warm, close-grained ground and the same faint parallel figure, used as a substitute where a botticino palette has been specified. It is not re-labelled Italian material.
Can skirtings and trim be matched to the floor?
Yes — skirtings and trim are a listed application, and cut-to-size work is produced to your drawings. The trim comes from the same colour rather than being sourced separately and hoped into a match.
Is there a matching mosaic?
Mosaic is a supplied format, mesh-mounted, and can be produced polished or honed to sit with the flat work. Very few of the Egyptian beiges cover slab, tile, trim and mosaic in one material.
How does it behave on stairs?
Steps and risers are a supplied format, with bullnose or eased edges and anti-slip grooving on request. Honed treads are the usual specification, since a polished tread in a hotel corridor gets slippery once it is wet.
Get a quote on Egyptian Botticino.
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.
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Family business since 1991 · Factory in Alexandria · 50 % in advance · 30 % on approval after production · 20 % before shipping · Reply within one working day