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Elephantine Letter (Request about the Rebuilding of the Elephantine Temple)
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Elephantine letter, dated to year 17 of King Darius II (November 25, 407 BCE). See Request about the Rebuilding of the Elephantine Temple) and Darius and Xerxes, Kings of Persia. The letter is…

Places:

Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)

Date:

407 BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Writing, Temple, Diaspora, Sacrifice

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Letters, Firsthand Accounts
Fragmentary papyrus page of Hebrew writing.