Syene
ancient name of Aswan.
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How to use Syene in a sentence
Strabo had travelled through the whole of Egypt, as far as Syene and Philæ, and writes with the decided tone of an eye-witness.
The distance from Syene to the sea is a month's journey for a horseman.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward GibbonHere used to watch, on right and left, two upright giants of red granite from Syene.
Egypt (La Mort De Philae) | Pierre LotiBy Ethiopian stone we must understand, as several illustrations prove, the granite of Syene.
A history of art in ancient Egypt, Vol. I (of 2) | Georges PerrotEgypt proper terminates at Syene: the territory south of that town and each side of the new Nile is called p. 165Nubia.
Cities of the Dawn | J. Ewing Ritchie
British Dictionary definitions for Syene
/ (saɪˈiːnɪ) /
transliteration of the Ancient Greek name for Aswan
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