Syene

(Ezek. 29:10; 30:6)—a city at ancient Egypt’s southern boundary, identified with modern Aswan. The source describes remains of temples, columns, inscriptions, and vast granite quarries from which Egyptian monuments were cut; the stone called syenite takes its name from the place. Syene stood near the Tropic of Cancer and was famous in antiquity for the near disappearance of the noon shadow at the summer solstice.