ELEPHANTINE, or ELEPHANTIS (anc. geog.),
an island in the Nile to the south of Syene; with a cog-
nominal town, where the navigation on the Nile ends,
because
Elephan-
time
Elephas. because just below the left catarract. And here to the west of the Nile flood the last Roman garrison (Notitia Imperii).