Edfu - site on the West Bank of the Nile, also known as Djebat, probably from the root word “to adorn”.  In the Old Kingdom, was called Behdet. 

    From remote antiquity, cult of Horus of Behdet centered there; has Old Kingdom necropolis, Middle Kingdom ruins, Remissive era temple,

    Late Period structures, and the largest temple still standing in Egypt built in the Ptolemaic period.

Eighteenth Dynasty - see New Kingdom

Elephants - African elephant was present in prehistoric and ancient times.  Drawings of Loxodonta Africana are found on cosmetic palettes,

    ivory carvings, painted ceramics, and rock paintings.  Bones are also found at various sites. Became rare to extinct in Egypt by end of Fourth

    millennium B.C.  Elephantine Island (Elephantland) is also evidence of their presence.  Syrian elephants, a subspecies of the Indian elephant,

    became known to New Kingdom pharaohs on campaign and were hunted. Ivory trade from the south very important.

El Kab - Present day name of ancient town of Nekheb, southern Upper Egypt, on the eastern bank of the Nile, opposite ancient Hierakonpolis.

    Inhabited since prehistory.  Site of two contiguous temples, one dedicated to Nekhbet, and the smaller dedicated to Sobek and Thoth. 

    Surrounded by a massive mud brick enclosure wall.

Tale of the Eloquent Peasant - Almost complete text known from four Middle Kingdom manuscripts; probably composed in the 12^th Dynasty;

    story addresses central cultural concerns such as the necessity for social order.

Epithets - Words or phrases, typically laudatory, describing a deity or person.

Equines - Two main species used in Ancient Egypt, the asses/donkeys (Equus asinus) and the caballine horses (Equis caballus). Horses were

    used in yoked teams to draw chariots and were probably introduced by the 16^th C. B.C.  Donkeys were indigenous to Africa, and appear to

    have been domesticated by late Predynastic times.  There is no evidence of the existence or use of mules in Ancient Egypt.

Esna - Site of large Ptolemaic temple dedicated to Khnum, on the east bank of the Nile south of Luxor.

Execration Texts - A class of formulas that were used as destructive magic, to counteract negative influences. Sometimes clay or wax

    figurines were used.