A town at the First Cataract, the southern extremity of Egypt proper: Egyp. Swn, now Assuan (Aswan). It lies on the east bank, opposite the island of Elephantine, where lay the capital of the first nome of Upper Egypt, and behind it are the celebrated granite quarries. 'From Migdol to Syene' is the correct tr in Eze 29:10; 30:5, as Septuagint and Revised Version margin. At Syene-Elephantine there was a colony of Jews with a sumptuous temple of Yahu (Jehovah; cf. Isa 19:19) earlier than Cambyses' conquest in b.c. 525, and throughout the Persian occupation. For this we have the evidence of papyri written there in the Aramaiclanguage. The dates of the documents hitherto found range from 471 to 410, in the reigns of Xerxes, Artaxerxes, and Darius ii. One of these is a petition to Bagoas, the governor of Jud