Periodic Reporting for period 5 - ELEPHANTINE (Localizing 4000 Years of Cultural History. Texts and Scripts from Elephantine Island in Egypt)

Elephantine was a militarily and strategically very important island in the river Nile on the southern border of Egypt. No other settlement in Egypt is so well attested through texts over such a long period of time of 4000 years. Its inhabitants form a multi-ethnic...