Beige marble
Samaha Marble
Also sold as Samaha Beige
Warm mid beige with a fine, sandy crystal.
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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.
Samaha's crystal is a little coarser than the Galala family's, and everything useful about the stone follows from that. Honed or brushed, it comes up with a sandy tooth you can feel through a bare foot, which is why it is specified around pools and on terraces rather than only indoors, and why the finish list runs the full range down to tumbled and sandblasted. The polish is not the point here. Polished is offered and the stone takes it, but a coarser crystal will not hold the glass-flat reflection the fine Galala crystal gives, and the reason to choose Samaha over a Galala is the abraded faces. The colour is a warm mid beige sitting between Silvia Menia's grey-leaning neutral and the honey of the Sunny grades, which makes it the bridge when a scheme runs two or three Egyptian beiges together. Steps and sills are made alongside the tiles.
Hashma Beige is the other beige that goes outside, and the two get there differently: Hashma is dense and tight-grained, honed to a matt face that resists showing scratches, while Samaha's coarser crystal gives grip through texture. Hashma is not offered polished at all, which tells you where it is meant to go; Samaha is, so the same stone can run from a terrace into a polished interior floor.
- Material
- Marble
- Colour
- Beige
- Origin
- Minya Governorate, Upper Egypt
- Availability
- High
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Brushed, Antique / aged, Tumbled, Sandblasted
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Steps and risers, Window sills and thresholds
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Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Samaha in the yard
Photographs of our own blocks, slabs and finished work. Slab photography shows one slab — the block it came from is what you are quoted against.
Laid out
Samaha 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
Samaha against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Samaha 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
Samaha, 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 Samaha, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Samaha is used
- Interior flooring
- Stairs
- Wall cladding
- Pool surrounds
- Terraces
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 Samaha 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.
Also in marble
Stones that sit alongside it
Galala Classic
Egypt's flagship beige — warm, even and quarried in volume.
Galala Mountain360° →
Perlato Galala
Beige ground broken by pale pearl clouds and shell figure.
Galala Mountain360° →
Silvia Menia
Soft neutral beige, low movement, dependable in volume.
Minya Governorate360° →
Triesta
Pale warm beige threaded with fine, quiet veining.
Suez / Eastern Desert360° →
Asked about this stone
Samaha — questions buyers ask
What does the coarser crystal actually change?
It gives honed and brushed faces a sandy tooth you can feel through a bare foot, which is what makes it work around pools and on terraces. It also means the polish never comes up as glass-flat as the finer-crystal Galala — choose Samaha for the abraded finishes, not for the shine.
Is Samaha suitable for a pool surround?
Pool surrounds and terraces are both on its application list, and it is run in the full texture range — brushed, tumbled and sandblasted. Tumbled is worth looking at for the coping and the pool edge in particular, since it rounds the arrises as well as pitting the face.
Where does Samaha's colour sit against the other Egyptian beiges?
Between Silvia Menia's grey-leaning neutral and the honey of the Sunny grades — warm, but not gold. That middle position is why it gets used as the bridge when a scheme is running two or three Egyptian beiges together.
Can I get matching steps for an external stair in Samaha?
Yes — steps and sills are both made alongside the tiles, with sandblasted or brushed treads where grip matters. Order them off the same blocks as the floor so the tone agrees across the two.
Get a quote on Samaha.
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