Gebel es-Silsilah
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 12, 2022 07:33 PM
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History
A mountain on the west bank of the Nile 40 miles north of Aswan with over 30 18th dynasty shrines. This site was first settled in the late Predynastic period, wan important sandstone quarry in the 18th dynasty with some inhabitants, and was still in use in the Roman period.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/674031361
24.6485729, 32.9293463
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Gebel es-Silsilah (4500 BC - AD 300)
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- Kheny/Khenu (Ancient Egyptian, 4500 BC - 332 BC)
- Gebel es-Silsilah located on Nilus (river) (4500 BC - AD 300)
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mountain
- See Further:
Pleiades
Zachary Rosalinsky, 'Gebel es-Silsilah: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/674031361> [accessed: 06 December 2023]
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