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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Elephantine exhibition

STAATLICHE MUSEEN ZU BERLIN: Elephantine: Island of the Millennia.
26.04.2024 to 27.10.2024
James-Simon-Galerie

The Nile Island Elephantine can be experienced through the special exhibition on the Museumsinsel, presented in the James-Simon-Galerie and in the Neues Museum. In this comprehensive, world-first exhibition, outstanding objects from Berlin’s collections will be shown alongside highlights from around the world. The diverse content of the texts will be contextualised with reference to archaeological finds and interpreted from a contemporary perspective, giving audiences a unique, first-hand experience of the island of Elephantine on the Museumsinsel Berlin.

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There is also a documentary on the Elephantine Project:

HT Todd Bolen at the Bible Places Blog.

For many, many PaleoJudaica posts on the Elephantine Papyri and the site of Elephantine, see here and links, plus here.

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