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Ahmose (fan-bearer)
Ahmose, also written Ahmes, was an Egyptian court official under Akhenaten who served as true scribe of the king and fan-bearer on the king's right hand.
Ahmose called Si-Tayit
Ahmose called Si-Tayit is an early 18th Dynasty figure named in connection with the first viceroy (king's son) of Kush, though the Met names Ruiu instead.
Ahmose Humay
Ahmose Humay was an Egyptian official of the 18th Dynasty who managed the granaries of the God's Wife of Amun under Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.
Ahmose Pen-Nekhbet
Ahmose Pen-Nekhbet, also written Ahmose-Pennekhbet, was an Egyptian official and soldier of the early 18th Dynasty who served Thutmose I, Thutmose II, and Hatshepsut and was buried at El-Kab.
Ahmose son of Ebana
Ahmose son of Ebana was an Egyptian naval officer from Elkab who served under Ahmose I, Amenhotep I, and Thutmose I in the early Eighteenth Dynasty.
Ahmose Turo
Ahmose Turo, also known as Turi, was an official of Egypt's early 18th Dynasty who served as Viceroy of Kush, the crown's top administrator of Nubia, under Amenhotep I and Thutmose I.
Amanmašša
Amanmašša, also Amanmasha or Amanmassa, is the name of an Egyptian official, probably two separate men, in the Amarna letters of the mid-14th century BC.
Amenemhab (called Mahu)
Amenemhab, called Mahu, was an Egyptian military officer of Dynasty 18 who served Thutmose III and Amenhotep II and is buried in tomb TT85 at Thebes.
Amenemhat (chief of Teh-khet)
Amenemhat was a Nubian chief of Teh-khet in Lower Nubia who served the Egyptian colonial administration under Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, and was the last chief of his line.
Amenemhat (TT82)
Amenemhat was an early 18th-Dynasty Egyptian official who served as grain scribe of Amun and steward of the vizier Useramen, owning the painted Theban tomb TT82 at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna.
Amenemnekhu
Inebny, also known as Amenemnekhu, was a high official of Egypt's 18th Dynasty who served as Viceroy of Kush, heading the administration of Nubia during the reigns of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.
Amenemope (son of Kanakht)
Amenemope, son of Kanakht, was an Egyptian official and sage at Ipu in Upper Egypt, author of the Instruction of Amenemope, a work of wisdom literature.
Amenemope (vizier)
Amenemope, also rendered Amenemipet, was a vizier and mayor of the city under Amenhotep II in the mid-18th Dynasty, buried in Theban tomb TT 29, which carries a copy of the Duties of the Vizier.
Amenemopet (called Pairy)
Amenemopet called Pairy was Vizier and Governor of the Town (Thebes) of Egypt's 18th Dynasty under Amenhotep II, buried in tombs TT 29 and KV 48.
Amenemopet (Viceroy of Kush)
Amenemopet was Viceroy of Kush, head of Egypt's administration of Nubia, during the Ramesside period under Sety I, known from rock graffiti at Aswan and a stela at Qasr Ibrim.
Amenhotep (vizier)
Amenhotep, called Huy, was Vizier of the South in Egypt under Amenhotep III around 1358–1353 BC, known chiefly from his unfinished tomb at Asasif, excavated since 2009.
Amenhotep son of Hapu
Amenhotep son of Hapu was an Egyptian architect and royal scribe under Amenhotep III, worshipped as a healing god for about a millennium after his death.
Amenmose (vizier)
Amenmose, also written Amunmose, was a vizier of Egypt in the late Nineteenth Dynasty, attested in a Theban relief beside King Amenmesse and named in Papyrus Salt 124, which records him punishing the workman Paneb.
Amennakht (foreman)
Amennakht, also known as Amenakhte, was a foreman of the Deir el-Medina work-crew of royal tomb craftsmen in 19th-Dynasty Egypt, under Sethi I and Ramesses II.
Amennakht (Scribe of the Tomb)
Amennakht, son of Ipuy, was the senior Scribe of the Tomb at Deir el-Medina in Egypt's 20th Dynasty, central to the first recorded labor strike.
Amethu called Ahmose
Amethu called Ahmose, also rendered Aametju, was a vizier and Mayor of Thebes in the early 18th Dynasty, father of the vizier Useramun and grandfather of Rekhmire.
Anen
Anen was an official of Egypt's 18th Dynasty who served as Second Prophet of Amun under Amenhotep III, brother of Queen Tiye and son of Yuya and Thuya.
Ankhefenkhonsu
Ankhefenkhonsu, also written Ankh-af-na-khonsu, was a Theban priest of the god Montu around 700–675 BCE, known for his Cairo sarcophagus and the Stele of Revealing.
Aperel
Aperel ('Aper-El, also written 'Aperia) was a vizier of Egypt under Amenhotep III and probably Akhenaten, c. 1391–1353 BC, known from his rock-cut tomb at Saqqara, reached in 1987.
Bakenkhons
Bakenkhons, also written Bakenkhonsu, was High Priest of Amun at Thebes under Ramesses II, serving about 70 years, the last 27 as High Priest; his autobiographical block statues record his career year by year.
Bek (chief sculptor)
Bek, also spelled Bak, was the chief royal sculptor of Pharaoh Akhenaten, active c. 1353–1336 BC during the Amarna period, and son of the sculptor Men.
Ben-Azen
Ben-Azen, Egyptian name Ramses-em-per-Ra, is a supposedly high-ranking New Kingdom official under Ramesses II, Merenptah, and Ramesses III, proposed since the 1970s as a model for the biblical Moses.
Dakhamunzu
Dakhamunzu, also known as Dahamunzu, is the name Hittite records give an Egyptian queen who asked King Šuppiluliuma I for a son in marriage, probably Tutankhamun's widow Ankhesenamun.
Djehutyhotep (prince of Teh-khet)
Djehutyhotep, also known as Paitsy, was a Nubian chief of the district of Teh-khet in Lower Nubia, serving pharaohs Hatshepsut and Thutmose III in the early Eighteenth Dynasty.
Djehutymose (Viceroy of Kush)
Djehutymose was an Egyptian official of the Eighteenth Dynasty who served as deputy viceroy of Wawat in Nubia under Amenhotep III, and probably became Viceroy of Kush under Akhenaten.