Elephantine
Elephantine (Arabic: جزيرة الفنتين, Greek: Ελεφαντίνη) is an island in the Nile River in northern Nubia. It is a part of the modern city of Aswan, in southern Egypt. There are archaeological sites on the island.
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Famous quotes containing the word elephantine:
“Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)