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Elephantine

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan

Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Jonathan Fu, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa

Last modified Jun 22, 2020 07:24 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:feature=settlement, dare:major=0

A fortified settlement located just before the First Cataract of the Nile. During the Second Intermediate Period, Elephantine marked the southern border of Egypt.

Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.

Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.

Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786021

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
24.09, 32.889

Locations:

Center of the island, per Google Earth (modern)

Names:

(jw) 3bw (Ancient Egyptian, 2670 BC - 2168 BC)
(jw)ꜣbw (Ancient Egyptian, 2670 BC - 2168 BC)
3bw (1548 BC - 1086 BC)
Abu (750 BC - AD 640)
Elephantine (750 BC - AD 640)
Elephantinē (Ancient Greek, 1548 BC - AD 640)
Gazirat Aswān (Arabic, 2670 BC - 1086 BC)
Iēb (Ancient Greek, AD 300 - AD 640)
Iēb (Coptic, AD 300 - AD 640)
Ǧazīrat Aswān (Modern Standard Arabic, 304 BC - AD 640)
ꜣbw (Ancient Egyptian, 2168 BC - 1086 BC)

Elephantine makes connections with:

None

Elephantine receives connections from:

Aswan Quarry Landscape connection Elephantine (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

See Also:

Wikipedia (English) Elephantine

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 80 inset Elephantine

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Geziret Aswan

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Suggested citation:
T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Jonathan Fu, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Elephantine: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786021> [accessed: 07 July 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786021 |title=Places: 786021 (Elephantine) |author=Wilfong, T., S. Sidebotham, J. Keenan |accessdate=July 7, 2020 1:10 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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