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Early one Wednesday before the Met opened to the public, a gaggle of staffers from the imaging department clustered in the Egyptian wing around the granodiorite statue of Haremhab.

The granodiorite slab announcing the kingly reign of Ptolemy V in Egypt circa 196 BC, better known as the Rosetta Stone, might be considered an early stab at the idea.

They didn't have to worry about that when they were issuing decrees at Memphis on a nice bit of granodiorite.

Carved from a single block of dark gray granodiorite, he sits in a form-fitting kilt on a cubic throne covered by hieroglyphics.

The ore is in a series of parallel and overlapping veins striking with the trend of the range, associated with granodiorite intrusives in schist and slate.