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Gebel es-Silsilah

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Sep 23, 2024 07:54 PM — History

A mountain on the west bank of the Nile River some 40 miles north of Aswan with over 30 Eighteenth Dynasty shrines. This site was first settled in the late Predynastic period, was an important sandstone quarry in the Eighteenth Dynasty with some inhabitants, and was still used in the Roman period.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/674031361

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
24.6485729, 32.9293463

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Gebel es-Silsilah (4500 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Kheny/Khenu (Ancient Egyptian, 4500 BC - 332 BC)

Gebel es-Silsilah makes connections with:

Gebel es-Silsilah located on Nilus (river) (4500 BC - AD 300)

Gebel es-Silsilah receives connections from:

None

Place type:
mountain

References:

See Further:

Caminos 1963

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Zachary Rosalinsky, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Gebel es-Silsilah: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/674031361> [accessed: 14 October 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/674031361 |title=Places: 674031361 (Gebel es-Silsilah) |author=Rosalinsky, Z. |accessdate=October 14, 2024 8:26 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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