Stela, Aswan Museum, Elephantine island, Egypt

Stela, fragment, late New Kingdom, 12th century BC, in the Aswan Museum, at Abu, on Elephantine island in the river Nile, at Aswan, Egypt. The island was important in the ivory trade from c. 3, 000 BC during the 1st dynasty, and was a defensive site above the First Cataract of the Nile at the border between Egypt and Nubia. It is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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