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  • 36, and among the Jews of Elephantine in Egypt (5th century B.C.).
  • "I fear for that woman," Cynthia said as Edith squeezed by the descending elephantine shape of Gladys Turnbull.
  • It is now known to have existed in Aramaic as far back as the 5th century B.C., appearing on Jewish papyri which were lately discovered by the German mission to Elephantine.'
  • The mercenary troops at Elephantine mutinied and attempted to desert to Ethiopia, but were brought back and punished.
  • A granite gateway to the temple of Khnflm at Elephantine bears his name in hieroglyphic, and demotic documents are found dated in his reign.
 
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