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Harkhebi
Harkhebi (Harchebis, modern reading Harentbo) was an astronomer, calendar official, and priest of the goddess Serket in Ptolemaic Egypt, known from a hieroglyphic inscription on his statue.
Harmachis (High Priest of Ptah)
Harmachis, called Horemakhet in Egyptian, was High Priest of Ptah at Memphis under the Ptolemies, succeeding his brother Djedhor in 223 BC and dying between 194 and 180 BC.
Harsiesi
Harsiesi, also known as Harsiesis, was probably a rebel king who briefly ruled Thebes in Upper Egypt around 131 to 130 BC, during the civil war of Ptolemy VIII.
Hedylus
Hedylus, also Hedylos of Samos, was a Hellenistic Greek epigrammatist of the third century BC who wrote at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria under Ptolemy II; 12 poems survive.
Helenus of Cyrene
Helenus of Cyrene was a Ptolemaic governor of Cyprus who held the island's civil, military, and priestly command in the late second century BC, known from inscriptions.
Hippalus (admiral)
Hippalus, also spelled Hippalos, is a navigator credited by the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea with first sailing straight to India on the monsoon winds.
Hor of Sebennytos
Hor of Sebennytos, also known as Horos, was an Egyptian priest and scribe of the second century BC whose dream records were found at the Serapeum of Memphis.
Hornedjitef
Hornedjitef was a Theban priest of Amun, god's father and high-priest at Karnak in the early Ptolemaic period, buried at Asasif in Thebes in the 3rd century BC.
Horos son of Nechoutes
Horos son of Nechoutes (Demotic: Hor, son of Nekhotf) was an Egyptian mercenary soldier at the garrison town of Pathyris, known through his family archive of papyri dated 134-89 BC.
Isidorus (Egyptian rebel)
Isidorus was an Egyptian priest who led the Boukoloi revolt against Roman rule in Egypt, generally dated to AD 172, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius.
Lagus (father of Ptolemy I)
Lagus was a 4th-century-BC Macedonian, husband of Arsinoe and reputed father of Ptolemy I Soter, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, though ancient sources sometimes named Philip II as Ptolemy's real father.
Lenaeus (regent of Egypt)
Lenaeus (Greek Lenaios) was a former Syrian slave who, with the eunuch Eulaeus, governed Ptolemaic Egypt as regent for the boy king Ptolemy VI from 176 BC.
Lysandra
Lysandra (Λυσάνδρα) was a Ptolemaic princess, daughter of Ptolemy I and Eurydice, who married Alexander V of Macedon and Agathocles of Thrace, whose execution helped provoke war.
Lysimachus (son of Lysimachus)
Lysimachus was a Macedonian prince, son of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, and Arsinoe II, daughter of Ptolemy I. He was killed at sixteen by Ptolemy Ceraunus.
Manetho
Manetho (Manethon of Sebennytos) was an Egyptian priest who wrote the Aegyptiaca, a Greek history of Egypt, under Ptolemy II in the early 3rd century BC.
Menches
Menches, alias Asklepiades, was a village scribe of Kerkeosiris in the Fayum, Ptolemaic Egypt, active from 119 BC into the 110s BC and known through his papyrus archive.
Myrmidon of Athens
Myrmidon of Athens was an Athenian general serving Ptolemy I of Egypt, known from Diodorus for leading 10,000 men to Cyprus in 315 BC and aiding Asander in Caria against Antigonus.
Nesisti-Pedubast
Nesisti-Pedubast was a High Priest of Ptah at Memphis in Ptolemaic Egypt, appointed in 263/2 BC; he is the earliest high priest known from the Ptolemaic era.
Nicanor (Ptolemaic general)
Nicanor was a friend and general of Ptolemy I of Egypt, sent in 320 BC to conquer Syria and Phoenicia, where he quickly took the governor Laomedon prisoner.
Oenanthe (Ptolemaic courtier)
Oenanthe (Greek Οἰνάνθη) was a Greek woman of the Ptolemaic court, mother of Agathocles and Agathoclea, killed by a mob in Alexandria in 203 BC.
Onias IV
Onias IV was the son of Onias III, the last Zadokite high priest of Jerusalem, who fled to Egypt and, per Josephus, founded the temple at Leontopolis.
Ophellas
Ophellas was a Macedonian officer from Pella who served Ptolemy I as governor of Cyrene and died in 308 BC on an expedition against Carthage.
Petosarapis
Dionysios Petosarapis was an Egyptian courtier and general of Ptolemy VI Philometor who, after the invasion of Antiochus IV ended in 168 BC, led a failed revolt in Alexandria.
Petubastis (High Priest of Memphis)
Petubastis, also rendered Pedubast, was a High Priest of Ptah at Memphis from 104/3 to 76 BC, whose funerary epitaph records a pontificate of twenty-eight years.
Philammon
Philammon is a Greek personal name attested in ancient Egypt, borne by 161 known individuals, and also the name of a legendary musician said to be a son of Apollo.
Pothinus
Pothinus, Greek Potheinos, was a eunuch courtier who served as regent for the young Ptolemy XIII, ordered Pompey's assassination in 48 BC, and was executed by Caesar.
Psherenptah III
Psherenptah III, also spelled Pasherienptah III, was High Priest of Ptah at Memphis from 76 BC to 41 BC, serving Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra VII.
Ptolemaios (son of Glaucias)
Ptolemaios son of Glaucias was a Macedonian katochos, or temple recluse, in the Serapeum of Memphis in Ptolemaic Egypt, detained there 15 years by his own 158 BC petition.
Ptolemy Epigonos
Ptolemy Epigonos, known as Ptolemy 'the Son', was a Ptolemaic prince who served as co-regent of Egypt with Ptolemy II from 267 to 259 BC.
Ptolemy II of Telmessos
Ptolemy II of Telmessos, or Ptolemaios son of Lysimachos, was a dynast who ruled the city of Telmessos in Lycia, attested from about 206 BC until at least 181 BC.