Syrian natural stone types: names in four languages, family, finishes and formats

Compiled by Phoenician Stone Group from its published stone pages, this table describes nine Syrian natural stones (limestones, shell stones, travertine and basalt) with their names in English, Arabic, Greek and French, stone family, finishes and formats: a structured reference for stones that are often traded under loose regional names such as "Aleppo stone".

Reference table of the nine Syrian natural stones in the Phoenician Stone Group catalogue: trade names in English, Arabic, Greek and French, stone family with Wikidata identifiers, published finishes, supply formats and applications in English and Arabic, and the HS headings to check when shipping them.

Files

• psg-syrian-stone-types-v1.csv: 9 rows, 7,536 bytes
• psg-syrian-stone-types-v1.json: 9 rows, 13,536 bytes

Method

• Extracted from the key-facts tables and headings of the site's published stone pages (English, Arabic, Greek and French editions); stone families linked to Wikidata.
• Names, families, finishes, formats and applications are those published on our stone pages; nothing beyond what those pages state is added.
• The Arabic, Greek and French names are the ones used in the site's own language editions.
• Each stone family is linked to its Wikidata entry; the identifiers were checked on Wikidata on 9 November 2026.

Limits

• Trade names, finishes, formats and applications are as published on the Phoenician Stone Group stone pages; they are not laboratory test data.
• Stone families are linked to Wikidata identifiers (checked 9 November 2026). The HS headings column says which headings to check, not a binding classification.

Rights and credit

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Copyright 2026 Phoenician Stone Group for this compilation.

Wikidata identifiers are CC0 data from Wikidata. All other text was written by Phoenician Stone Group.

Attribution requested: Phoenician Stone Group.

Online: dataset page (English) https://phoenicianstone.net/data/syrian-stone-types/; Arabic https://phoenicianstone.net/ar/data/syrian-stone-types/; catalogue https://phoenicianstone.net/data/. The same files, with a data viewer: https://huggingface.co/datasets/phoenician-stone-group/syrian-natural-stone-open-data.

About the publisher

Phoenician Stone Group is a Syrian natural stone company, founded in 2004, with its own quarries and production in Syria and its sales and client service run from Europe. It quarries, processes and exports limestone, fossil limestone (shell stone), travertine and volcanic basalt, and supplies industrial minerals.

It publishes these data because buyers, specifiers and researchers have little reliable, sourced information on Syrian stone and its trade, and much of what circulates predates the changes in Syria's trade rules since 2025. Every figure is tied to a dated public source, so that it can be checked independently and corrected openly in a new version.

Disclosure: This table lists the nine stones in the company catalogue, as published on its stone pages. Website: https://phoenicianstone.net/.

Related reading from Phoenician Stone Group

• Syrian Natural Stone Guide: Limestone to Basalt: how the nine stones differ, and which finishes and formats each comes in.
• Aleppo Stone and Syrian Limestone: A Buyer's Guide: why "Aleppo stone" is a regional name rather than a quality standard.
• Hauran Basalt and Syrian Basalt: A Buyer's Guide: where southern Syria's black stone comes from, and how Bosra was built from it.
• Exporting Syrian Stone: A Practical Guide for Buyers: from the first enquiry to the containers, what to agree in writing and which documents to expect.
• Syrian Stone, Sourced the European Way: how an order from the company's own quarries is checked, documented and handled by its sales team in Europe.
• The Mediterranean Has More Than One Shore: Syria's place among the Mediterranean's stone origins, from Ugarit's harbour to the port of Latakia.

How to cite: Phoenician Stone Group (2026). Syrian natural stone types: names in four languages, family, finishes and formats (version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24108341