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Inscription of Tefibi
The Inscription of Tefibi is the autobiographical text of Iti-ibi, nomarch of Asyut during the First Intermediate Period, carved in his rock-cut Tomb III and recording his battles against the Theban-aligned southern nomes.
Inscription of Udjahorresnet
The Inscription of Udjahorresnet is an autobiographical text on a basalt statue in the Vatican Museums, the chief Egyptian source for the Persian conquest of Egypt under Cambyses II.
Inscriptions of Asyut
The Inscriptions of Asyut are autobiographical texts and tomb decoration of nomarch governors at Asyut, Egypt, carved in the 21st century BCE during the First Intermediate Period.
Inscriptions of Djau
The Inscriptions of Djau are Old Kingdom texts from Abydos, chiefly a red granite door jamb Djau, a Sixth Dynasty vizier, set up at the temple of Khentiamentiu.
Insinger Papyrus
The Insinger Papyrus is a Demotic Egyptian wisdom instruction of over 800 maxims in numbered chapters, a six-meter roll held in Leiden since its 1895 purchase from collector Jan Herman Insinger.
Installation of Amenirdis I as God's Wife of Amun
The installation of Amenirdis I as God's Wife was the Kushite adoption of princess Amenirdis I into the high priesthood of Amun at Thebes in the 8th century BC.
Installation of the Vizier
The Installation of the Vizier is the installation section of the ancient Egyptian text The Duties of the Vizier, best preserved in Rekhmire's Theban tomb.
Instruction for Kagemni
The Instruction for Kagemni, also called the Instruction of Kagemni, is an Egyptian wisdom teaching addressed to Kagemni, a vizier of King Sneferu, known only from the Papyrus Prisse.
Instruction for Merikare
The Instruction for Merikare, also called the Teaching for King Merikare, is an ancient Egyptian text in which a Heracleopolitan king teaches his son and successor, Merikare, how to rule.
Instruction of Amenemhat
The Instruction of Amenemhat is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian instruction text in the voice of King Amenemhat I, warning his son Senusret I to distrust his circle.
Instruction of Amenemope
The Instruction of Amenemope, also called the Wisdom of Amenemope, is an Egyptian wisdom poem of paternal moral teaching from the Ramesside period, closely paralleled in Proverbs 22:17–24:22.
Instruction of Ankhsheshonq
The Instruction of Ankhsheshonq, also given as Onchsheshonqy, is a Demotic wisdom text of Ptolemaic Egypt, framed as advice written in prison by a priest for his son.
Instruction of Hardjedef
The Instruction of Hardjedef, also called the Teaching of Hardjedef, is an ancient Egyptian wisdom teaching attributed to Prince Hardjedef, a son of King Khufu.
Intef (general)
Intef was a Theban military official of the Eleventh Dynasty, overseer of troops under King Mentuhotep II, known from a statue in Theban tomb 386.
Intef (TT155)
Intef, also transcribed Antef, was an early 18th Dynasty Egyptian official who served as royal herald under Hatshepsut and Thutmose III and owned tomb TT 155 at Thebes.
Intef I
Intef I, also Inyotef I or Antef I, was a Theban king of ancient Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty, the first of his house to claim pharaohship, reigning about 2125-2112 BC.
Intef II
Intef II, also written Antef II or Inyotef II, was a Theban king of Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty who reigned about 49 years during the First Intermediate Period.
Intef III
Intef III, also known as Inyotef III or Antef III, was the fourth pharaoh of the Theban Eleventh Dynasty of ancient Egypt, probably the father of Mentuhotep II.
Intef the Elder
Intef the Elder, also known as Antef the Great, was a non-royal Theban nomarch of the early 11th Dynasty, remembered as founder of the Theban royal line.
Intefiqer
Intefiqer (or Antefoqer) was a highly attested vizier and governor of Thebes in Egypt's early Twelfth Dynasty who served Amenemhat I and Senusret I.
Inventory Stela
The Inventory Stela is a limestone inscription from the Isis temple at Giza, written in the name of Khufu but carved roughly 2,000 years later, in the 26th Dynasty.
Ionian and Carian mercenaries in Egypt under Psamtik I
Ionian and Carian mercenaries in Egypt under Psamtik I were Greek and Carian soldiers who helped him win his throne and were settled at the Camps near Bubastis.
Ipi (vizier)
Ipi, also written Ipy, was a vizier of ancient Egypt in the early Twelfth Dynasty, most probably serving under King Amenemhat I, known for his large rock-cut tomb TT315 at Deir el-Bahari, Thebes.
Ipuki
Ipuki (also Ipuky) was an ancient Egyptian chief sculptor of the 18th Dynasty under Amenhotep III, known from the Theban tomb TT181, shared with fellow sculptor Nebamun.
Iput I
Iput I was a queen of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, the wife of King Teti and mother of Pepi I, buried in her own pyramid at Saqqara.
Iput II
Iput II, also written Ipwet, was a queen of Sixth Dynasty Egypt and a wife of the long-reigning king Pepi II, buried in a pyramid at South Saqqara.
Ipy (steward)
Ipy, also written Apy, was a royal steward of late Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt, serving under Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, and Tutankhamun, and owner of Amarna Tomb 10.
Irsu
Irsu, also written Iarsu, is a Syrian said in the Great Harris Papyrus to have seized power in Egypt at the end of the 19th Dynasty.
Iry-Hor
Iry-Hor is an early Egyptian king of Dynasty 0, the phase before the First Dynasty, dated around 3000 BC and known from inscribed vessels and his tomb at Abydos.
Irynefer
Irynefer was a necropolis workman at Deir el-Medina in the Theban West Bank during the early reign of Ramesses II, known chiefly from his tomb, TT 290.