Further north, the main quarry has obvious marks of the work of stonemasons and a group of elaborate private memorial chapels. Several stelae, including the huge Stele of Shoshenq I, mark the northern edge of the quarry and lead to the Speos of Horemheb.
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The changeover of constructing temples in Ancient Egypt from limestone to sandstone may have started with the Temple of Kheny. It appears that the Temple of Kheny may be the "mother temple" to all future temples built with sandstone.
According to Nilsson:
The oldest building phase of the temple was made up by limestone, which is unique within a sandstone quarry, and may signify the official changeover from limestone construction to sandstone.
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To the south is marked by a massive rock pillar, known as the 'Caprestante', so called because the locals once believed there was a chain - silsila in Arabic, which justifies the choice of the name for that place - that ran from the east bank to the west.
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Gebel el-Silsila
جبل السلسلة
The nomes of Ancient Egypt, in Upper Egypt.
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, 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. The name Kheny (or sometimes Khenu) means "The Place of Rowing". 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.
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"The faults of men are everlasting in bronze,
Your virtues we write in the water."
William Shakespeare
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