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Iyri
Iyri, also spelled Iyry or Iyiri, was the High Priest of Ptah at Memphis in the late Nineteenth Dynasty, serving under Seti II around 1202–1191 BC.
Iytjenu
Iytjenu is a barely attested pharaoh of late Old Kingdom Egypt, absent from all king lists and known only through the private name Sat-Iytjenu, "Daughter of Iytjenu."
Izi (nomarch)
Izi, also known as Isi, was a provincial governor of Egypt's 2nd Upper Egyptian nome at Edfu under the 5th and 6th Dynasties, later venerated as a local saint.
Izi (overseer of the treasury)
Izi is an Old Kingdom Egyptian official who held the title overseer of the treasury, one of the officials recorded in Nigel Strudwick's 1985 prosopography of the Old Kingdom administration.
Jar of Xerxes I
The Jar of Xerxes I is an alabaster vessel inscribed for the Persian king Xerxes I, found at Halicarnassus in 1856 and held in the British Museum.
Judicial Papyrus of Turin
The Judicial Papyrus of Turin, also called the Turin Judicial Papyrus, is a hieratic papyrus recording the trials of the harem conspiracy against Pharaoh Ramesses III, instigated by Queen Tiye.
Juridical Stela
The Juridical Stela is a limestone stela from Karnak, Thebes, dated to Year 1 of King Nebiryraw I, recording the legal transfer of the governorship of El-Kab.
Ka-Nefer-Nefer
Ka-Nefer-Nefer was a 19th Dynasty Egyptian noblewoman whose funerary mask, excavated at Saqqara in 1952, is held by the Saint Louis Art Museum amid an unresolved repatriation dispute with Egypt.
Ka-priest
A ka-priest (Egyptian ḥm-k3, "ka-servant") maintained the funerary cult of a dead person in ancient Egypt, performing offerings of bread, water, beer, and meat before the deceased's statue.
Kaaper
Kaaper, also written Ka-aper and known as Sheikh el-Beled, was an Old Kingdom Egyptian chief lector priest whose life-size wooden statue, found at Saqqara, is in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Kaemsekhem
Kaemsekhem was a prince of the Egyptian Fourth Dynasty, recorded as a son of Kawab and Hetepheres II and a grandson of King Khufu, known from his Giza mastaba tomb.
Kaemtjenent
Kaemtjenent was a prince of Egypt's late Fifth Dynasty in the Old Kingdom, recorded as a possible son of King Djedkare Isesi, though some scholars assign him to Menkauhor instead.
Kagemni
Kagemni, also called Memi, was chief justice and vizier of Egypt under King Teti of Dynasty 6, known from his decorated mastaba tomb at North Saqqara.
Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus
The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus, also called the Kahun Medical Papyrus, is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian manuscript on women's health from about 1825 BC, held in the Petrie Museum in London.
Kaikhenet II
Kaikhenet II was a Fifth Dynasty provincial official of the 10th Upper Egyptian nome, buried in rock-cut tomb A2 at El-Hammamiya and titled Chief of the Ten of Upper Egypt.
Kamose
Kamose, also known as Wadjkheperre Kamose, was the last pharaoh of the Theban Seventeenth Dynasty in the Second Intermediate Period, reigning about 1555-1550 BC and campaigning against the Hyksos king Apophis.
Kamose Stelae
The Kamose Stelae are two royal stelae of Theban king Kamose from Karnak, dated about 1555-1550 BCE, the main source for his war against the Hyksos.
Kanefer (overseer of commissions)
Kanefer was a Fourth Dynasty official of Egypt's Old Kingdom who held the title overseer of commissions and was buried in mastaba G 1203 at Giza.
Kanephoros of Arsinoe
The kanephoros of Arsinoe, the "basket-bearer," was the eponymous priestess of Arsinoe II Philadelphos's cult in Alexandria from 269/268 BC, naming each year in dated documents.
Kapes
Kapes was a royal woman of ancient Egypt's 22nd Dynasty in the 9th century BC, known as the mother of King Osorkon II and attested chiefly through his monuments.
Karimala
Karimala, also read Katimala, was a queen of Nubia of the Twenty-First Dynasty, around the eleventh to tenth centuries BC, who took control of Lower Nubia and is known from a single inscription at Semna.
Karnak
Karnak (Ipet-Sut), vast ancient Egyptian temple complex at Thebes, modern Luxor, dedicated to Amun-Ra; 134-column hypostyle hall, Opet Festival avenue to Luxor Temple, CFEETK-managed UNESCO site.
Karnak Cachette
The Karnak Cachette, or Cachette court, is a huge deposit of statues at Karnak found by Georges Legrain in 1903, the largest from a single context.
Karnak king list
The Karnak king list, or Karnak Tablet, is a list of 61 royal cartouches carved under Thutmose III at Karnak and now kept in the Louvre.
Karomama I
Karomama I was a Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Osorkon II of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty, known from a Karnak stela and reliefs at Bubastis in the 9th century BC.
Karomama II
Karomama II was a queen of ancient Egypt's Third Intermediate Period, the wife of King Takelot II and mother of Osorkon, High Priest of Amun, around 850 BC.
Karomama Meritmut
Karomama Meritmut, also called Princess Karomama C, was a God's Wife and Divine Adoratrice of Amun at Thebes during Egypt's 22nd Dynasty, best known for her gold-inlaid bronze statue in the Louvre.
Kawab
Kawab, also written Ka-wab, was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, the eldest son of King Khufu and his intended heir, who died before his father.
Kawit
Kawit was an ancient Egyptian royal woman, a wife of King Mentuhotep II of the 11th Dynasty, buried in his mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari, Thebes.
Kehek
Kehek, also Qeheq, was a minor Libyan group of the New Kingdom, named among the Hittite coalition at Kadesh and as soldiers in an Egyptian army in Papyrus Anastasi I.