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Hori (High Priest of Ptah)
Hori was High Priest of Ptah at Memphis, son of the royal prince Khaemwaset and grandson of Ramesses II, taking office around 1215 BCE and serving into Merneptah's reign.
Hori (Viceroy of Kush)
Hori I (Hori, son of Kama) was a Viceroy of Kush, the Egyptian governor of Nubia, who served under Ramesses III and Ramesses IV in the 20th Dynasty.
Hori II (High Priest of Ptah)
Hori II was a High Priest of Ptah at Memphis in ancient Egypt during the Ramesside period, one of several holders of that office named Hori.
Hori II (vizier)
Hori was a vizier of ancient Egypt who served as vizier of Lower Egypt under Sethos II, then as vizier of Upper Egypt under Ramesses III.
Hormeni
Hormeni was an early 18th Dynasty Egyptian official whose decorated rock-cut tomb at Nekhen (Hierakonpolis) is securely dated by cartouches to the reign of Thutmose I.
Hornakht (17th Dynasty)
Hornakht was an official of the Theban 17th Dynasty during Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, known only from a rishi-coffin burial found at Dra Abu el-Naga in 1862.
Hornakht (prince)
Hornakht, also written Harnakhte, was a young son of pharaoh Osorkon II who was appointed High Priest of Amun at Tanis and died at about nine years of age.
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.
Horus Bird
Horus Bird is a disputed royal serekh, a poorly detailed bird sign found on stone-vessel fragments at Saqqara and Abydos, linked to the close of the First Dynasty.
Horus Sa (possible Egyptian king)
Horus Sa is a possible early Egyptian king of the Thinite period, known only from about thirty-nine ink-inscribed stone vessel fragments found beneath Djoser's pyramid at Saqqara.
Horwennefer
Horwennefer, also called Hurgonaphor or Haronnophris, was a native Egyptian rebel pharaoh crowned at Thebes in 205 BC who ruled Upper Egypt against the Ptolemaic kingdom until his capture and execution in 186 BC.
Hotep
Hotep (Egyptian ḥtp, also hetep) is the ancient Egyptian word meaning offering, peace, satisfaction, and rest, written with the bread-on-mat hieroglyph R4, central to the offering formula ḥtp-ḏj-nswt and to Davies's analysis of hetep and maat.
Hotepibre
Hotepibre Qemau Siharnedjheritef was an obscure Egyptian king of the Thirteenth Dynasty who reigned around 1791–1788 BC and is attested by the Turin Canon, scarab seals, and a mace found at Ebla in Syria.
Hotepsekhemwy
Hotepsekhemwy, also written Hetepsekhemwy and later recorded as Bedjau or Boethos, was the first king of Egypt's Second Dynasty, succeeding Qa'a around 2845 BC; his tomb at Saqqara remains debated.
House altar of Akhenaten
The House altar of Akhenaten, or Stela of Akhenaten and his family, is a limestone relief of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their daughters under the Aten, made around 1351–1334 BC.
House of Life
The House of Life (Per-ankh) was a temple scriptorium of ancient Egypt where scribes copied and stored religious and magical texts, attested from about 2200 BC.
Hrere
Hrere, also known as Herere, was a Theban noblewoman of the late 20th Dynasty, mother of Nodjmet and holder of the title Chief of the Harem of Amun.
Hsekiu
Hsekiu, recorded in hieroglyphs as Seka, is a predynastic king of Lower Egypt named only in the Palermo Stone royal annals, where he stands second among the preserved Delta kings and is generally regarded as legendary.
Hudjefa I
Hudjefa I is the conventional designation for a nameless pharaoh of Egypt's Second Dynasty, around 2711 BC, known only from later king lists; "hudjefa" means "erased", a scribe's note marking an illegible name.
Hunefer (mayor of Thebes)
Hunefer was an ancient Egyptian official who served as mayor of Thebes under Ramesses II in the Nineteenth Dynasty; his granite sarcophagus stands in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
Hunefer (scribe)
Hunefer was a royal scribe and estate overseer serving Pharaoh Seti I of Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty, known almost entirely through his richly illustrated Book of the Dead papyrus.
Huni
Huni, also known as Houni, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the last king of the Third Dynasty, reigning around 2637 to 2613 BC before Sneferu founded the Fourth Dynasty.
Hunters Palette
The Hunters Palette, also called the Lion Hunt Palette, is a large ceremonial cosmetic palette of late Predynastic Egypt (Naqada III), carved in relief with hunters killing lions and desert animals.
Huy (Viceroy of Kush)
Huy was an Egyptian official who held the office of King's Son of Kush, the viceroy heading the Egyptian administration of Nubia during the New Kingdom.
Huya (steward)
Huya was an Egyptian official of the late Eighteenth Dynasty who served as steward of Queen Tiye's household and owned rock tomb no. 1 at Amarna.
Hyksos
Hyksos (Egyptian heqa khasut, 'rulers of foreign lands'): West Semitic Fifteenth Dynasty kings who ruled northern Egypt from Avaris (Tell el-Dab'a), c. 1650–1550 BC, until expelled by Ahmose I.
Hyksos conquest of Egypt
The Hyksos conquest of Egypt, or Hyksos invasion, was the takeover of northern and Middle Egypt by the West Semitic Fifteenth Dynasty, ruling from Avaris around 1638–1530 BC.
Hymn to the Nile
The Hymn to the Nile, also called the Hymn to Hapy, is an ancient Egyptian hymn to the annual Nile flood, personified as the god Hapy.
Iah (queen)
Iah, whose name means "Moon", was an 11th Dynasty Egyptian queen of Thebes, wife of king Intef III and mother of Mentuhotep II, who reunited Egypt at the end of the First Intermediate Period.