Abstract

This article examines the presence of elephant in ancient Egyptian language to illustrate its different names, its ideograms and its rare representations in ancient Egyptian texts. As well it's religious role depending on two elephant burials at Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt, several predynastic and archaic period depictions of elephant and a spell of coffin texts which back to the time of the middle kingdom.

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