id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4138 Elephant (pharaoh) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1533 445 75 Elephant (pharaoh) Wikipedia Elephant (maybe read as Pen-Abu[1]) is the provisional name of a Predynastic ruler in Egypt. Since the incarved rock inscriptions and ivory tags showing his name are either drawn sloppily, or lacking any royal crest, the reading and thus whole existence of king "Elephant" are highly disputed. Dreyer sees a cube-shaped throne seat and a walking elephant beneath it and reads Pen-Abu ("Great one from the (throne) seat").[2] Morenz thinks alike but is highly uncertain about the reading of the name. Morenz points out that it became a remarkable fashion during the Naqada III epoch to choose dangerous and unpredictable animals (such as lions, crocodiles, elephants and rhinoceroses) for building up royal names.[3] Elephant might have ruled during the early Naqada III epoch. III (= Ägyptologische Abhandlungen (ÄA), vol. Neferkare III Neby Intef III Mentuhotep III Amenemhat III Sobekhotep III Sewadjkare III Ramesses III Osorkon III Ptolemy III Euergetes ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4138.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4138.txt