or ESSAMBOL, or IPSAMBOUL, anciently Aboccis, or Abocceis, a town on the Nile, in Nubia, to the south of the island of Kogos, in Lat. 22. 20. 11. N. and Long. 31. 40. 57. E. About twenty feet above the river is a temple hewn out of the perpendicular face of the rock. At the entrance are several colossal figures of young persons, in bas-relief, the space between them being filled with hieroglyphics indicating a very high antiquity. A description of this famous temple is given in the article NUBIA.