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Elephantine
Today
Aswan
What it was
The island at the first cataract, Egypt's southern border and the point where the inundation was believed to be released from caverns below. It was also a garrison town, a customs post and the site of a Jewish military colony in the Persian period whose Aramaic papyri survive.
When it mattered most
Old Kingdom onward, as a frontier
What is actually there now
Ruins on the island, a nilometer cut into the rock, and the Aswan museum.
Worshipped here
Elsewhere in Nubian border