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Gebel el-Silsila
Gebel el-Silsila or Gebel Silsileh (Arabic: جبل السلسلة - Jabal al-Silsila or Ǧabal as-Silsila - "Chain of Mountains" or "Series of Mountains"; Egyptian: ẖny, Khenyt,〔Kitchen (1983).〕 Kheny or Khenu - "The Place of Rowing") is 65 km north of Aswan in Upper Egypt, where the cliffs on both sides close to the narrowest point along the length of the entire Nile. The location is between Edfu〔 in the north towards Lower Egypt and Kom Ombo〔 in the south towards Upper Egypt. It was used as a major quarry site on both sides of the Nile from at least the 18th Dynasty to Greco-Roman times. Silsila is famous for its New Kingdom stelai and cenotaphs.
==Sandstone quarry==
During the 18th dynasty the Egyptians switched from limestone to sandstone. At this time the quarries at Gebelein were not yielding as much limestone as before. Gebel el-Silsila became a source of sandstone.〔Wilkinson (2000), pp. 40, 65, 208.〕 The use of this stone allowed for the use of larger architraves.〔
Many of the talatats used by Akhenaten were quarried from here, and used in buildings at Luxor and Amarna. A stela from the early part of Akhenaten's reign shows the king offering to Amun beneath the winged sun-disk. The inscription records that stone was cut for the great Benben of Harakhty in Thebes.〔Tyldesley (1998), p. 56.〕
Akhenaten's sculptor Bek oversaw the opening of a stone quarry here.
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