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Reisner Papyri
The Reisner Papyri are four Middle Kingdom administrative papyri from Naga ed-Deir, Egypt, excavated by George Reisner and held at UC Berkeley, recording construction, dockyard, and labor accounts.
Rekhetre
Rekhetre, also written Rekhit-Ra', was a king's daughter and king's wife of Old Kingdom Egypt, a daughter of Khafre buried in mastaba G 8530 at Giza.
Rekhmire
Rekhmire, also Rekhmira, was a vizier of Egypt and governor of Thebes under the 18th-Dynasty kings Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, in the first half of the 15th century BC.
Renseneb
Renseneb, written rn(.i)-snb(w), was a king of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty attested on the Turin King List and a glazed steatite bead, with a four-month reign around 1777 BC.
Report of Wenamun
The Report of Wenamun, also called the Tale of Wenamun, is a Late Egyptian papyrus in Moscow telling of an official sent to Byblos for cedar wood.
Reptynub
Reptynub, also written Reputneb, was a queen consort of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, known as the wife of King Nyuserre Ini and attested by a statue found at Abusir.
Reserve head
A reserve head (Giza reserve heads) is a portrait-like limestone head buried in the substructure of Old Kingdom mastaba tombs at Giza, made mostly during Khufu's Fourth Dynasty reign.
Resseneb (son of Ankhu)
Resseneb was a vizier of Egypt in the Thirteenth Dynasty, son of the vizier Ankhu and brother of the vizier Iymeru, and earlier his scribe.
Restoration Stela of Tutankhamun
The Restoration Stela of Tutankhamun, also known as the Restoration inscription of Tutankhamun, is a stone stela from Karnak proclaiming the return to traditional Egyptian religion after Akhenaten's reforms.
Restoration under Tutankhamun
The restoration under Tutankhamun, also called the Restoration of Amun, restored Egypt's traditional gods and temples after Akhenaten's Atenism, documented by the Restoration Stela from Karnak.
Revenue Laws Papyrus
The Revenue Laws Papyrus (P.Rev.) is a Greek papyrus from Ptolemaic Egypt, dated to 259/8 BC, compiling royal ordinances on taxation, tax farming, and the oil monopoly.
Revolt of Acoris
The Revolt of Acoris, more accurately Achoris' wars, was the Persian attempt to retake Egypt under Artaxerxes II, repelled by pharaoh Achoris around 385-383 BC, leaving Egypt independent.
Revolt of Amyrtaeus
The Revolt of Amyrtaeus was the Egyptian insurrection of 405/4–404 BC in which Amyrtaeus of Sais ended the First Persian Period and restored native rule.
Revolt of Dionysius Petosarapis
The revolt of Dionysius Petosarapis was an uprising in Alexandria against Ptolemy VI in 168 BC, led by an Egyptian courtier who was defeated at Eleusis.
Revolt of Magas
The Revolt of Magas, or Cyrene revolt of Magas, was the secession of Cyrenaica from Ptolemaic Egypt under Magas, half-brother of Ptolemy II, in the 270s BC.
Revolt of Panehesy
The Revolt of Panehesy, also called the Rebellion of Panehesy, was the takeover of Thebes by the Viceroy of Kush Panehsy under Ramesses XI, around 1089 BC.
Revolt of Pedubast I against Takelot II
The revolt of Pedubast I against Takelot II was a civil war at Thebes in ancient Egypt, beginning in Takelot II's regnal year 11 when Pedubast proclaimed himself king.
Revolt of the Delta vassals against Assyria
The Revolt of the Delta vassals against Assyria was a conspiracy of native Delta chiefs against Assyrian rule, plotted with Taharqa and crushed by Ashurbanipal after 667 BC.
Rhetorical Stela of Ramesses II
The Rhetorical Stela of Ramesses II is an inscribed Egyptian stela of the pharaoh Ramesses II, praising the king as victorious and pious without reference to a particular event.
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 2/n table
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 2/n table is an ancient Egyptian table expressing 2 divided by every odd number from 3 to 101 as sums of unit fractions.
Ritual of Embalming Papyrus
The Ritual of Embalming is the principal surviving ancient Egyptian ritual text for embalming a human body, preserved in hieratic papyrus copies of the Roman period from Thebes.
Roma called Roy
Roma, also called Roy, was High Priest of Amun at Thebes in Egypt's 19th Dynasty, succeeding his elder brother Bakenkhons and serving under Ramesses II, Seti II, and Amenmesse.
Royal Annals of Egypt
The Royal Annals of Egypt are annalistic records of Egyptian kings surviving in seven stone fragments, of which the Palermo Stone is the best known.
Rudamun
Rudamun, also spelled Rudamon and known as Usermaatre Rudamun, was a pharaoh of the Theban Twenty-third Dynasty during the Third Intermediate Period, reigning in the mid-eighth century BC.
Sabaces
Sabaces, also written Sabakes, was the Persian satrap of Egypt under Darius III. He was killed fighting Alexander the Great at the Battle of Issus in 333 BC.
Sabef
Sabef was a high official of Egypt's First Dynasty who served King Qa'a; his funerary stela from Abydos is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Sabni
Sabni, son of Mekhu, was a Sixth Dynasty provincial governor and expedition leader of the 1st Upper Egyptian nome at Elephantine under Pepi II, buried at Qubbet el-Hawa.
Sabu (high steward)
Sabu was an official of Egypt's First Dynasty, known as the owner of mastaba S3111 at North Saqqara, dating to the reign of King Anedjib.
Sabu also called Ibebi
Sabu, also called Ibebi, was a high priest of Ptah at Memphis under the kings Unis and Teti, at the transition from Egypt's 5th to 6th Dynasty.
Sabu also called Kem
Sabu, also called Kem, was a high priest of Ptah at Memphis in the second half of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, known from his mastaba tomb C23 at Saqqara.