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  • Egypt, Aswan
  • geo:24.084887,32.887489
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Satet's nilometer on Elephantine Island

data access 25198

The corridor Satet's nilometer on Elephantine Island was a structure for measuring the Nile River's level and was associated with the Temple of goddes Satet.

See:

  1. Margaret Bunson, Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, Infobase Publishing 2014, p. 58

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-02-10) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/25198
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Suggested citation: , E. , Satet's nilometer on Elephantine Island. https://vici.org/vici/25198, accessed 2025-12-08.