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Quarry inscriptions · Mysteria

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Quarry inscriptions

Every place in the atlas labelled quarry inscriptions.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art

Gebel el-Silsila Quarry and Rock Inscriptions

New Kingdom to Roman (1550 BCE–30 BCE–300 CE) · Egyptian Theban; 18th Dynasty onward

Nile's 50-ha sandstone quarry-narrow with 32 shrines 1500 BCE–300 CE; Horemheb speos and flood stelae at 400-m gorge.