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Sabu also called Tjety
Sabu also called Tjety was a high priest of Ptah at Memphis during the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt, known from a fragmentary false-door stele from his tomb at Saqqara.
Sabu disk
The Sabu disk is a tri-lobed ornamental stone bowl from a 1st Dynasty tomb at North Saqqara, Egypt, excavated in 1936 and held in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Sack of Thebes (663 BC)
The sack of Thebes in 663 BC, recalled in Nahum as the fall of No-Amon, was the plundering of Egypt's religious capital by Ashurbanipal of Assyria, ending Kushite rule.
Sadeh (queen)
Sadeh was an ancient Egyptian royal wife of Mentuhotep II, the Dynasty 11 king who founded the Middle Kingdom, buried at Deir el-Bahari in Thebes.
Sahathor
Sahathor, also written Sihathor, was a short-reigning pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, placed between Neferhotep I and Sobekhotep IV around 1733 BC.
Sahure
Sahure, also written Sahura, was the second king of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, reigning c. 2487–2475 BCE; his pyramid at Abusir set the model for later royal monuments.
Saite reunification
The Saite reunification was the consolidation of all Egypt under Psamtik I of Sais, completed in 656 BC when Thebes accepted his rule, ending the Third Intermediate Period.
Sakir-Har
Sakir-Har was a Hyksos ruler of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, attested in the 16th century BC and placed by a 2023 reconstruction at the head of the 15th Dynasty.
Salitis
Salitis, also Salatis, is the first Hyksos king of Egypt's 15th Dynasty in Manetho's account, traditionally ruling from Memphis and fortifying Avaris, though no contemporary record names him.
Sanakht
Sanakht, also known as Sanakhte, is the Horus name of a pharaoh of Egypt's Third Dynasty, attested by a Sinai relief and seal impressions and traditionally identified with Nebka.
Saqqara Bird
The Saqqara Bird is a small sycamore wooden bird figurine found in 1898 in a tomb at Saqqara, Egypt, dated to about 200 BC and held in Cairo's Egyptian Museum.
Saqqara King List
The Saqqara King List, also called the Saqqara Tablet, is a limestone inscription from the reign of Ramesses II listing 58 Egyptian kings in reverse chronological order.
Sarcophagus of Seti I
The sarcophagus of Seti I is an alabaster burial basin from tomb KV17, carved around 1279 BC and displayed since 1824 in Sir John Soane's Museum, London.
Sarenput I
Sarenput I, also known as Sirenput, was the nomarch and governor of Elephantine under Senusret I in the early 12th Dynasty, known for his monumental rock-cut tomb QH36 at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan.
Sarenput II
Sarenput II was a nomarch of the 1st nome of Upper Egypt at Elephantine during Egypt's 12th Dynasty, known from his rock-cut tomb QH31 at Qubbet el-Hawa.
Sasobek
Sasobek was an ancient Egyptian official who served as northern vizier of Egypt under Pharaoh Psamtik I in the 26th Dynasty; his sarcophagus is in the British Museum.
Satiah
Satiah, also known as Satjah, was a queen of Egypt's 18th Dynasty and the first recorded Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose III, who reigned about 1479–1425 BC.
Satire of the Trades
The Satire of the Trades, or Teaching of Khety, is an Egyptian instruction text urging a son to become a scribe, composed about 1950-1900 BC.
Satrap Stela
The Satrap Stela, also known as the Stela of the Satrap Ptolemy, is a 311 BC Egyptian stela recording Ptolemy's grant of land to the temples of Buto.
Scarab (artifact)
Scarab (artifact): ancient Egyptian amulet and seal shaped like Scarabaeus sacer, called kheper ("to become"). Used as amulets from the Old Kingdom, as seals from the Middle Kingdom; heart scarabs carried Book of the Dead spell 30B.
Scopas of Aetolia
Scopas of Aetolia (Greek: Σκόπας) was an Aetolian general who served the Aetolian League, then commanded Ptolemaic Egypt's forces in the Fifth Syrian War, dying by execution in Alexandria in 196 BC.
Scorpion I
Scorpion I, or Horus Scorpion I, is the conventional name for a late Predynastic Egyptian ruler of about 3200 BC, thought to be buried in tomb U-j at Abydos.
Scorpion II
Scorpion II (Horus Scorpion) is a possibly attested ruler of late Dynasty 0 in Egypt, fl. c. 3100 BC, known from the Scorpion Macehead found at Hierakonpolis.
Scorpion Macehead
The Scorpion Macehead, or Major Scorpion macehead, is a large limestone ceremonial mace-head found at Hierakonpolis in 1897–98, carved around 3100 BC and now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Sea Peoples invasion of Egypt
The Sea Peoples invasion of Egypt was a coalition attack on the Nile Delta in Ramesses III's eighth regnal year, defeated on land and at sea around 1177 BC.
Seal-bearer of the King of Lower Egypt
Seal-bearer of the King of Lower Egypt (ḫtm.tj-bj.tj) is a high-ranking ancient Egyptian court title held by senior royal officials from the early dynastic period onward.
Seankhenre Mentuhotepi
Seankhenre Mentuhotepi, also written Sankhenra Mentuhotepi, was a pharaoh of the Theban 16th Dynasty during Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, reigning around 1618 BC as the fifth king of a poorly documented dynasty.
Seankhibre
Seankhibre, also known as Amenemhat VI, was a pharaoh of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He reigned around 1780 BC, and his name appears on various seals and king lists.
Seankhibtawy Seankhibra
Seankhibtawy Seankhibra is a poorly attested Egyptian king of the Middle Kingdom, known from a single architrave from Heliopolis, dated variously to the Eleventh, Twelfth, or Thirteenth Dynasty.
Seated Scribe
The Seated Scribe, also known as the Squatting Scribe, is a painted limestone statue of an Egyptian scribe in the Louvre, found at Saqqara in 1850.