E´LEPHAS
E´LEPHAS the name of a mountain and a river of Aethiopia on the western coast of the Red Sea.
The promontory of Elephas (
Ἐλέφας ὄρος, 4.7. § § 10, 26, 27;
Strab. xvi. p.774) was the eastern extremity of Mount Garbata, and situated between, the headland Aromata (
Cape Guardafui) and the entrance of the Red Sea, in lat. 11° N.
The modern appellation of Elephas is Dsjibel-Fil (
Cape Felix).
The position of the river Elephas is uncertain. (Heracl.
Peripl. Mar. Eryth. p. 7.)
It was, however, near the foreland of Elephas and in the Regio Cinnamomifera. Strabo (
l.c.) mentions a canal (
διώρυξ), apparently part of the river, or an artificial direction of its current.
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