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Predynastic Egyptian mummies
Predynastic Egyptian mummies are preserved human bodies from Egypt's Predynastic period, preserved by natural desiccation in hot desert sand or deliberate embalming, with the best-known examples from Gebelein held by the British Museum.
Prehistoric Egypt
Prehistoric Egypt: the Egyptian past before writing, especially the Predynastic Period c. 5500–3100 BC (Badarian, Maadi, Naqada I–III/Dynasty 0 cultures), ending with Narmer's unification and the First Dynasty.
Prehotep (vizier)
Prehotep, more fully written (Pa)Rahotep or Prahotep, was a vizier of Egypt under Ramesses II of the 19th Dynasty, serving at least 33 years and buried at Sedment.
Prehotep II
Prehotep II, Egyptian Prahotep, was a vizier of Egypt under Ramesses II in the 19th Dynasty, the second of two same-named viziers, holding the northern office at Piramesse.
Priest of Alexander and the Ptolemies
The Priest of Alexander and the Ptolemies was the senior annual priesthood of the Ptolemaic dynastic cult in Alexandria, whose name dated official documents throughout Egypt.
Priestess of Hathor
Priestess of Hathor, also translated Prophetess of Hathor, was a title held by women serving the goddess Hathor in ancient Egypt, attested from 2686 BCE.
Priestess of Neith
Priestess of Neith is an ancient Egyptian female priestly title of the goddess Neith, attested from 2686 to 2161 BCE, in the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period.
Priesthood of Amun
The priesthood of Amun, also known as the Amun priesthood, served the god Amun at Karnak in Thebes; in the 21st Dynasty its High Priests effectively ruled Upper Egypt.
Prisse Papyrus
The Prisse Papyrus, or Papyrus Prisse, is a Middle Kingdom hieratic scroll of about 1800 BC holding the complete Instruction of Ptahhotep, called the oldest book in the world.
Prophecy of Neferti
The Prophecy of Neferti, also known as the Admonitions of Neferti, is an ancient Egyptian text foretelling chaos and the rise of King Amenemhat I.
Psammetichus (son of Theocles)
Psammetichus, son of Theocles, was a second-generation Greek soldier named in the mercenary graffiti carved at Abu Simbel during pharaoh Psammetichus II's Nubian campaign of 593/591 BC.
Psammuthes
Psammuthes, Egyptian Pasherienmut and Greek Psammuthis, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 29th Dynasty who briefly held the kingship around 392/1 BC between Nepherites I and Hakor.
Psamtik I
Psamtik I, also known as Psammetichus I, was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt who reigned from 664 to 610 BC, expelled the Assyrians, and founded the Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
Psamtik II
Psamtik II (Psammetichus II, Psamtek II; throne name Neferibre) was a pharaoh of Egypt's 26th Dynasty, reigning from 595 to 589 BC and leading a major campaign against Nubia in 593 BC.
Psamtik III
Psamtik III, also called Psammetichus III, was the last pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty, reigning 526 to 525 BC until Cambyses II of Persia conquered Egypt.
Psamtik IV
Psamtik IV, also Psammetichus IV or Psamtek IV, was a rebel king who ruled parts of Egypt during the revolt against Persian rule of 487-485 BC.
Psamtik-seneb
Psamtik-seneb, also known as Psammetichus-seneb, was governor of the Saite nome in the western Nile Delta during the reign of Psamtik I of Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
Psherenptah III
Psherenptah III, also spelled Pasherienptah III, was High Priest of Ptah at Memphis from 76 BC to 41 BC, serving Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra VII.
Psusennes I
Psusennes I, throne name Akheperre Setepenamun, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-first Dynasty who reigned at Tanis; his intact tomb, with a silver coffin, was found by Pierre Montet in 1939.
Psusennes II
Psusennes II, also known as Pasebakhaenniut II, was the last pharaoh of Egypt's 21st Dynasty, ruling from Tanis in the Nile Delta around 967 to 944 BC.
Psusennes III
Psusennes III, in Egyptian Pasebakhaenniut, was High Priest of Amun at Thebes in the late Twenty-first Dynasty, succeeding his father Pinedjem II around 969 BC.
Ptah
Ptah (Egyptian Ptḥ), mummiform creator god and patron of craftsmen at Memphis, identified by Greeks with Hephaestus; his temple Hwt-ka-Ptah gave Egypt its Greek name, and the Shabaka Stone records his creation by heart and tongue.
Ptahemwia
Ptahemwia was a high-ranking Egyptian official of the Nineteenth Dynasty under Ramesses II, serving as royal scribe and Overseer of the Treasury of the Ramesseum.
Ptahhotep (vizier of Djedkare)
Ptahhotep, also known as Ptahhotep I or Ptahhotpe, was a vizier of ancient Egypt who served King Djedkare Isesi in the late Fifth Dynasty, around 2400 BC.
Ptahhotep Tjefi
Ptahhotep Tjefi, also known as Ptahhotep Djefi, was a vizier of ancient Egypt who served King Djedkare Isesi at the end of the Fifth Dynasty, around the 25th century BCE.
Ptahmose (vizier)
Ptahmose was an Egyptian official of the late 18th Dynasty who served Amenhotep III as high priest of Amun, vizier, and head of building projects.
Ptahmose I (High Priest of Ptah)
Ptahmose I was High Priest of Ptah at Memphis under Pharaoh Thutmose III of the 18th Dynasty, when the Ptah priesthood was among Egypt's most powerful offices.
Ptahmose, son of Menkheper
Ptahmose, son of Menkheper, was an 18th-Dynasty Egyptian official who served as High Priest of Ptah at Memphis, bearing the title "Greatest of the Directors of craftsmen" and known from the office's published succession lists.
Ptahshepses (vizier)
Ptahshepses was a vizier of ancient Egypt's Fifth Dynasty who served King Nyuserre, married Princess Khamerernebty, and built at Abusir the largest private mastaba tomb known from the Old Kingdom.
Ptolemaic army
The Ptolemaic army was the multiethnic army of Ptolemaic Egypt (323–30 BC), made up of Greco-Macedonian settlers, mercenaries, and native Egyptians, fielding about 70,000 men at Raphia in 217 BC.