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Elephantine (Egypt) --- Antiquities --- Elephantine (Egypt) - Antiquities

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Fouilles archéologiques --- Eléphantine (Égypte ; île) --- Égypte --- Antiquités --- Éléphantine (Égypte ; île)

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Jews --- Aramaic language --- Elephantine (Egypt)

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The temple of Satis is located in southern Egypt on Nile island of Elephantine near the modern city of Aswan. It is the only known provincial temple whose development can be tracked over a long period of time. The oldest parts of the temples date back into Egyptian pre-history and extends over three-thousand years, which offers a site rich in archeological information. A local deity, Satis was revered in the sanctuary on the island and was associated both with the annual flood of the Nile and with the protection of the southern border, and thus had significance for all of Egypt. More than 33,000 objects from the temple of Satis are examined in this work, which were documented during the excavation by the German Archeological Institute in the immediate area of the temple. The majority of the artefacts date from the 6th to the 18th Dynasties (2 to 3 thousand years BCE). Among the finds, gifts from foundation depots of new temple buildings of the Middle and New Kingdom were identified, as well as decorative architectural elements from the Old Kingdom. The inventory of finds from the temple offer important evidence for the daily ritual practices across time. The largest group of artefacts are votive offerings, which include not only items from daily life but also specially made votive gifts, whose form and appearance is determined by religious practices as well as the socio-economic background of the individual giver, which can be seen through the ages and which offers information about the votive practices of the local population. In the concluding catalog section, numerous objects are described and presented in illustrations along with note about their archaeological context.

Temple of Satis (Elephantine, Egypt) --- Elephantine (Egypt) --- Antiquities --- Elephantine (Egypt) - Antiquities