Title
Elephantine Papyrus 407 BC
Caption
Elephantine Papyrus 407 BC. The Elephantine Papyri are a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts dating from the 5th century BC. They come from a Jewish community at Elephantine, then called Yeb, the island in the Nile at the border of Nubia, which was probably founded as a military installation in about 650 BC during Manasseh's reign to assist Pharaoh Psammetichus I in his Nubian campaign. The dry soil of Upper Egypt preserved documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Syene (Aswan). Hundreds of these Elephantine papyri, written in hieratic and Demotic Egyptian, Aramaic, Greek, Latin and Coptic, span a period of 1000 years
Info+
World History Archive
Date
407 BC
Credit line
Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library
Reference
ARP18A05_064
License type
Rights managed
Available size
38,6Mb (2,2Mb) / 14,1in x 10,6in / 4240 x 3184 (300dpi)