Examples of using Elephantine in English and their translations into German
{-}
-
Colloquial
-
Official
-
Ecclesiastic
-
Medicine
-
Financial
-
Ecclesiastic
-
Political
-
Computer
-
Programming
-
Official/political
-
Political
Others operate within elephantine bureaucracies.
Further Elephantine papyri are at the Brooklyn Museum.
Sail in a Felucca, around the Elephantine Islands.
Just next to the jetty on Elephantine Island in the Nile at Aswan, El-amin Guest House is located.
Think the moon is a blue moon, a single elephantine sapphire.
In this way, Elephantine can be employed as a case study and model for the past, present and future.
Who are these mercenaries who protected Egypt from the Elephantine stronghold?
In prehistoric times the today's island Elephantine was separated into two islands which were connected by a flat, probably swampy hollow.
The site which they showed me did not lie in Aswan,but rather on the western edge of the koms of Elephantine.
Khufu's name appears in inscriptions at Elkab and Elephantine and in local quarries at Hatnub and Wadi Hammamat.
Today, the decoration of walls and pillars generally show ThutmosisIII mainly in front of the members of the triad of Elephantine.
Another doorjamb was discovered in the temple of Satet, also on Elephantine which attests to building activity on the site.
The Amun is situated on its own island,which is beautiful and peaceful with well designed gardens and a view of Elephantine Island.
Today, several thousand papyri and other manuscripts from Elephantine are spread throughout more than 60 institutions right across Europe and beyond.
The objective of this project is to write a 4000-year cultural history of Elephantine Island in Egypt.
In order to follow this leadfurther, Otto Rubensohn went to Elephantine in 1906, and at the same time French scholars also went there with the same purposes.
Located on Elephantine Island in the middle of the River Nile, Mövenpick Resort Aswan offers luxurious accommodation with countless services including a swimming pool, tennis court, and gymnasium.
Set on the Nile River banks in the Nubian Desert,this 5-star hotel in Aswan is near Elephantine Island and the Khnum Temple.
Located in the Nubian Desert on the banks of the Nile, opposite Elephantine Island, Sofitel Legend Old Cataract offers elegant rooms and suites.
If, in addition to size, you wish to convey the suggestion of solidity and immovability, you can use words such as massive, bulky, unwieldy,jumbo, elephantine, and mountainous.
That said, he had extreme authority because he was recognised from Elephantine to Hermopolis and he was such a clever politician that the Assyrians respected him.
Possibly, this hollow has been inundated only during a high Nile flood, however, in the course of history it disappeared completely according to OEAE,keyword Elephantine, S. 465, during the 1st Interim Period.
The Aramaic Papyri from Assuan,published by Sayce and Cowley in 1906, and those from Elephantine, published by Sachau in 1907-documents that have furnished astonishing information relating to the history of Judaism.
During the 5th century BCE, while Egypt stood under Persian sovereignty,an Aramaeo-Jewish community settled on an island in the Nile River called Elephantine, opposite the city Syene, today's Aswan.
At my proposal the general administration of the royal museums in Berlin shut down the work that had begun, and with customary courteousness Mr. Maspero in the name of the Service des Antiquités issued the requested permission to operatepapyrus excavation on the western half of the Koms of Elephantine.
But they took such a direction that they came to today's Egypt and settled in the upper part,in the area of Elephantine, of this country, building at once a little city there and lived there.
Through the use of this databank, with its medical, religious, legal, administrative and even literary texts, researchers will be able to study the microhistory of everyday life of the local and global(‘glocal')community of Elephantine, in the context of its sociocultural Egyptian background and beyond.
There is no evidence that Nebuchadnezzar plundered Egypt, as was anticipated by Ezekiel, but he seems to have attacked Hophra's successor Amasis in bc 568 with some success, and some of the victims of Lower Egypt The Syrian andother mercenary soldiers stationed at Elephantine revolted in the reign of Hophra Another mutiny of the Egyptian soldiery, recorded by Herodotus, resulted in an amasis of the throne as a champion of the natives.
But they took such a direction that they came to today's Egypt and settled in the upper part of this country,in the area of Elephantine, built a small city for themselves and lived there.
In the morning you will sail to the amazing botanical garden on Kitchener's Island, an unexpected green and calm oasis amidst the busy city,and then visit Elephantine Island with the famous nilometer, the ancient ruins and the Nubian villages.