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Great Estate of the Palace
The Great Estate of the Palace (Hwt aAt) was a major royal production and administrative center of Old Kingdom Egypt, larger than an ordinary Hwt estate.
Great Harris Papyrus
The Great Harris Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Harris I, is the longest surviving document from pharaonic Egypt, a 42-meter roll from about 1150 BC recording Ramesses III's deeds.
Great Hymn to the Aten
The Great Hymn to the Aten is an ancient Egyptian religious poem to the sun disk, inscribed in the tomb of Ay at Amarna around 1348 BCE.
Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah
The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah is a 79-column triumphal inscription on a wall at Karnak temple, recording the pharaoh's victory over a Libyan-led invasion around 1208 BC.
Great Overlord of the Oryx Nome
The Great Overlord of the Oryx Nome was the title of the governors of the Sixteenth Upper Egyptian nome during the late Eleventh and early Twelfth Dynasties.
Great Pyramid of Giza
Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu, Cheops): 4th Dynasty Old Kingdom royal tomb near Cairo, c. 2589–2566 BC, 146.5 m original height, only surviving ancient Seven Wonder, built by paid Egyptian workers.
Great Royal Wife
Great Royal Wife (hemet nesut weret) was the title of the pharaoh's principal wife, introduced around 1700 BCE and held by queens such as Tiye, Nefertiti, and Hatshepsut.
Great Theban Revolt
The Great Theban Revolt, also called the Egyptian Revolt of 206 BC, was a native Egyptian uprising in Upper Egypt against Ptolemaic rule, lasting from 207/206 BC to 186 BC.
Gurob papyri
The Gurob papyri are Greek documentary papyri found at Gurob in the Fayum during Flinders Petrie's excavation, covering court records, petitions, and tax papers from 226 to 209 BC.
Haankhef
Haankhef was an Egyptian of the Thirteenth Dynasty, known as the non-royal father of the pharaohs Neferhotep I and Sobekhotep IV, whose reigns spanned roughly 20 years.
Haankhes
Haankhes, also written Ha-ankhes, was an Egyptian queen of the early 17th Dynasty at Thebes around 1670/1650 BC, known from stelae naming her as the mother of Prince Ameni.
Haapi
Haapi, also written Hapi, was an Egyptian commissioner resident in Sumur in Canaan, accused in seven Amarna letters of the mid-14th century BC of betraying Egyptian interests to Aziru of Amurru.
Hakor
Hakor, also known as Achoris, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-ninth Dynasty who reigned from about 393 to 380 BC and repelled two Persian invasions.
Hannu
Hannu, also read Henu or Henenu, was a high official of Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty whose Wadi Hammamat inscription records dispatching ships to Punt under Mentuhotep III.
Hapuseneb
Hapuseneb (Hepuseneb) was High Priest of Amun and apparently also vizier under Hatshepsut during Dynasty 18 of the New Kingdom, around 1479–1458 BC; his tomb is TT 67 at Thebes.
Harem conspiracy against Ramesses III
The harem conspiracy was a plot by queen Tiye to kill Ramesses III and enthrone her son Pentaweret; the king died, but the rightful heir succeeded.
Haremakhet (High Priest of Amun)
Haremakhet, also spelled Horemakhet, was an ancient Egyptian prince, eldest son of the Kushite pharaoh Shabaka, who served as High Priest of Amun at Thebes during the Twenty-fifth Dynasty.
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.
Harkhuf
Harkhuf was an Egyptian governor under kings Merenre and Pepi II who led four trading expeditions to Nubia, recording them in his tomb autobiography at Aswan.
Harkhuf's expeditions to Yam
Harkhuf's expeditions to Yam were four trading journeys into Nubia led in the 23rd century BC by the Egyptian official Harkhuf under kings Merenre and Pepi II.
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.
Harpers' Songs
Harpers' Songs, also written Harper's Songs or Songs of the Harpists, are ancient Egyptian funerary texts inscribed on tomb walls beside harpists, attested from the Middle Kingdom onward and most abundant in the New Kingdom.
Harsiese A
Harsiese A, also rendered Horsiese, was a king at Thebes in southern Egypt in the mid-ninth century BC, ruling alongside Osorkon II and buried at Medinet Habu.
Harsiese B
Harsiese B was a Theban High Priest of Amun of the late 22nd Dynasty, in office from Osorkon II's reign into Pedubast I's, and distinct from the earlier Theban king Harsiese A.
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.
Harwa
Harwa was an Egyptian official of the 25th Dynasty, Great Steward of the Divine Adoratrice Amenirdis I at Thebes, known for his vast tomb TT37.
Hathor
Hathor (Egyptian Het-Hor, "House of Horus"): major ancient Egyptian goddess, mother of the pharaoh, linked with cows, music, love and the Eye of Re; chief cult center at Dendera, also worshipped at Serabit el-Khadim in Sinai.
Hatiay
Hatiay was a royal scribe and high official of ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty under Amenhotep III, buried in Theban tomb TT 226 at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna.
Hatnub inscriptions
The Hatnub inscriptions are rock inscriptions and graffiti left by officials and workmen in the travertine quarries of Hatnub, Middle Egypt, spanning the Old Kingdom to the New Kingdom.
Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut, female pharaoh of Egypt's 18th Dynasty (ca. 1473–1458 BC), ruled as senior co-ruler with Thutmose III, built the Deir el-Bahri temple, sent the Punt expedition, and was later erased from monuments.