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Nubemhat
Nubemhat was a queen of the Theban Seventeenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, Great Royal Wife of King Sobekemsaf I, known from a stela from Dendera and a statue from Kawa.
Nubemtekh
Nubemtekh, rendered Noubemtekh in Latin script, was a princess of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, known only from inscribed stone vessels in the Louvre and Turin, dated about 1425 to 1349 BC.
Nubhetepti
Nubhetepti was a Great Royal Wife of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty, known from scarab seals and probably the wife of King Hor Awibre, reigning around 1777–1775 BC.
Nubhetepti-khered
Nubhetepti-khered, also written Noub-Hotep-khered, was an ancient Egyptian king's daughter of the early Thirteenth Dynasty, probably a daughter of King Hor, found intact at Dahshur in 1894.
Nubian campaign of Hatshepsut
The Nubian campaigns of Hatshepsut were military expeditions sent by the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut against Nubia in the 1470s and 1460s BCE, during the early 18th Dynasty.
Nubian campaign of Merenre
The Nubian campaign of Merenre was the Sixth Dynasty king Merenre's personal visit to Nubia's First Cataract around 2300 BC, recorded in three rock inscriptions near Aswan.
Nubian campaign of Piankh
The Nubian campaign of Piankh was an expedition into Nubia led by Piankh, High Priest of Amun at Thebes, in year 10 of the Whm Mswt of Ramesses XI.
Nubian campaign of Sneferu
The Nubian campaign of Sneferu was an Egyptian raid into Nubia by the Fourth Dynasty's founding king, recorded on the Palermo Stone with 7,000 captives and 200,000 livestock.
Nubian campaigns of Mentuhotep II
The Nubian campaigns of Mentuhotep II were military expeditions by the 11th Dynasty king against Wawat, reaching Buhen and recorded at Korosko in his year 29.
Nubian campaigns of Pepi I
The Nubian campaigns of Pepi I were Egyptian military expeditions into Lower Nubia under Pepi I, third king of the 6th Dynasty, around 2345–2181 BCE.
Nubian campaigns of Senusret I
The Nubian campaigns of Senusret I were Egyptian expeditions into Lower Nubia, conquering it as far as the Second Cataract by the king's year 18.
Nubian campaigns of Thutmose III
The Nubian campaigns of Thutmose III were Egyptian expeditions that completed the conquest of Upper Nubia during his reign, extending Egyptian rule to the Fourth Cataract of the Nile.
Nubian Mercenaries of Gebelein
The Nubian Mercenaries of Gebelein, also known as the Gebelein Nubians, were Nubian C-Group soldiers in Upper Egypt during the First Intermediate Period, known from archer grave stelae.
Nubkheperre Intef
Nubkheperre Intef, also known as Intef Nubkheperre, was an Egyptian king of the Seventeenth Dynasty who reigned at Thebes around 1560 BC, during the Second Intermediate Period.
Nubkhesbed
Nubkhesbed was an ancient Egyptian queen of the Twentieth Dynasty, the Great Royal Wife of Ramesses VI and mother of Pharaoh Ramesses VII, around 1140 BC.
Nubwenet
Nubwenet, also written Nebwenet, was a queen consort of Pepi I of Egypt's 6th Dynasty, buried in a small pyramid beside the king's at South Saqqara.
Ny-Hor
Ny-Hor, also rendered Ni-Hor, is a putative ruler of late predynastic Egypt's Dynasty 0, placed before Narmer around 3200 BC and attested only by serekhs on vessels, with no tomb known.
Nynetjer
Nynetjer, also known as Ninetjer and Binothris, was the third pharaoh of Egypt's Second Dynasty, reigning about 43 to 45 years around 2780 BC and buried at Saqqara.
Obelisk ship
An obelisk ship was a specialized flat-bottomed barge built in New Kingdom Egypt to carry granite obelisks from the Aswan quarries down the Nile to Thebes.
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.
Oikonomos (Ptolemaic Egypt)
The oikonomos, Greek οἰκόνομος, was the nome-level financial official of Ptolemaic Egypt, overseeing tax collection, grain, and royal monopolies under the dioiketes until the office declined in the second century BC.
Old Kingdom of Egypt
Old Kingdom of Egypt, Dynasties 3-6 (about 2686-2181 BC), first great era of unified pharaonic rule and the Pyramid Age; saw Djoser's Step Pyramid, Giza's Great Pyramid of Khufu, Pyramid Texts, and collapse into the First Intermediate Period amid decentralization and climate change.
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.
Onomasticon of Amenemope
The Onomasticon of Amenemope is an ancient Egyptian onomasticon, a categorized list of 610 words compiled at the end of the Twentieth Dynasty, no earlier than Ramesses IX.
Onomasticon of Amenope
The Onomasticon of Amenope, also called the Onomasticon of Amenemipet, is an ancient Egyptian word-list papyrus compiled between the late 20th and 22nd Dynasties, classifying 610 entries.
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.
Oracle decrees of Amun
The oracle decrees of Amun, also called oracle consultations of Amun, are written records of verdicts given by the god Amun at Thebes in the Third Intermediate Period.
Oracle of the Lamb
The Oracle of the Lamb, also called the Prophecy of the Lamb, is a Demotic Egyptian text in which a lamb prophesies the end of foreign rule to King Bocchoris.
Oracle of the Potter
The Oracle of the Potter, also known as the Potter's Oracle, is a Greek prophetic text of Ptolemaic Egypt predicting a native king who ends Greek rule.
Oracular Amuletic Decrees
Oracular Amuletic Decrees are written divine oracles of Egypt's Third Intermediate Period, around 1069 to 715 BCE, promising named private people, mostly children, protection against everyday misfortunes; 24 are known.