elephantine

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After all, “they didn’t call Merrick the Elephant or the Elephantine Man. The Elephant and the Man sit in an uneasy balance.”

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2020

The anthropological team from the University of Jaen said the Egyptian woman was an aristocrat from Elephantine, the country's southernmost town.

From Reuters • Mar. 24, 2015

He gulps, awkward in his ponderous regalia, But his eye stays rapt, Elephantine, Arctic-- A god, on earth for the first time, With the clock of love and death in his body.

From Time Magazine Archive

The total of 56 days' journey from the way from Elephantine to Meroe upon or along the Nile points to a place much higher up the river than Napata.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Duncker, Max

For the following reigns Egyptian documents hardly exist, but some papyri written in Aramaic have been found at Elephantine and at Memphis.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various