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Sebek-khu
Sebek-khu, also known as Sobekhu, was an Egyptian commander and official under Senusret III of the Twelfth Dynasty, known from a stela found at Abydos in 1901.
Sebilian
The Sebilian is a Late Palaeolithic stone-tool industry of the Nile valley in Upper Egypt and Nubia, named after the village of Sebil and dated to roughly 12.6–16.9 thousand years ago.
Sebkay
Sebkay, also known as Woseribre Seneb-Kay, was a pharaoh of the Abydos Dynasty who ruled from Abydos in Upper Egypt around 1650-1600 BC, during the late Second Intermediate Period.
Second Achaemenid conquest of Egypt
The Second Achaemenid conquest of Egypt was the campaign by which the Persian king Artaxerxes III overthrew pharaoh Nectanebo II around 343 BC, ending native rule.
Second and Third Dynasties of Egypt
Pehen-Ptah is a figure of ancient Egypt's 2nd Dynasty, an obscure period dated c. 2800–2670 BCE that began with the Saqqara kings Hetepsekhemwy, Raneb, and Ninetjer.
Second Asiatic campaign of Amenhotep II
The second Asiatic campaign of Amenhotep II was a Year 9 expedition into central Palestine, as far as the Sea of Galilee, known from the Memphis stela.
Second Dynasty of Egypt
Second Dynasty of Egypt (c. 2890–2670 BCE), second Early Dynastic royal house, also called Dynasty 2. Early kings Hetepsekhemwy, Raneb, and Nynetjer were buried at Saqqara; Peribsen and Khasekhemwy closed the dynasty at Abydos.
Second Intermediate Period of Egypt
The Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (ca. 1773–1550 BCE) lay between the Middle and New Kingdoms, when the Hyksos, kings of Levantine origin, ruled the north from Avaris.
Second Prophet of Amun
The Second Prophet of Amun was the second-ranking priestly office in the cult of Amun at Karnak, attested in Egypt from 1279 to 30 BCE.
Sed festival of Amenhotep III
The Sed festival of Amenhotep III, or Heb-Sed of Amenhotep III, was a series of three royal jubilees held in regnal Years 30, 34, and 37 at Malqata in western Thebes.
Sedjefakare
Sedjefakare Kay Amenemhat was a poorly attested pharaoh of Egypt's 13th Dynasty, reigning in the 18th century BC and known mainly from seals, scarabs, and a graffito at Saqqara.
Sedjemnetjeru
Sedjemnetjeru was an ancient Egyptian artist attested as a draughtsman, literally a writer of outlines, at Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period.
Sedjes
Sedjes is a putative pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Third Dynasty, known only from the Abydos king list; other lists give Hudjefa or omit the position entirely.
Sehebre
Sehebre, throne name Sehabra, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, known only from the Turin Canon, which credits him with a reign of 3 years and 1 day.
Seheqenre Sankhptahi
Seheqenre Sankhptahi was a pharaoh of the late Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, known from a Madrid stela and the Turin King List.
Sehetepebreankh-nedjem
Sehetepebreankh-nedjem, also written Sehetepibreankhnedjem, was a Twelfth Dynasty High Priest of Ptah at Memphis during the Middle Kingdom, known from a sandstone group statue commissioned by his son Nebpu and held in the Louvre.
Sehetepibre
Sehetepibre, fully Sehetepibre Sewesekhtawy, was the tenth pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty, reigning briefly around 1783–1781 BC and known almost entirely from the Turin King List and a few monuments.
Sehetepibre (stela owner)
Sehetepibre was an Egyptian official of the Twelfth Dynasty who served as deputy of the treasurer under Amenemhat III, known from his funerary stela Cairo CG 20538.
Sekhem-ankh-Ptah
Sekhem-ankh-Ptah, also written Ptah-sekhem-ankh, was an Egyptian official of the Fifth Dynasty, around 2465 to 2323 BC, known from a Giza mastaba and a Saqqara chapel now in Boston.
Sekhemka
Sekhemka was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian official whose painted limestone statue, made around 2400 BC, sold at auction in 2014 for a record £15.76 million.
Sekhemkare (prince)
Sekhemkare was a prince of ancient Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a son of King Khafre who served as chief justice and vizier and was buried in tomb G 8154 at Giza.
Sekhemkare Amenemhat Sonbef
Sekhemkare Amenemhat Sonbef is a ruler of the Thirteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, dated to about 1800–1796 BC, whose identity and name forms are debated.
Sekhemkhet
Sekhemkhet, also known as Sekhemket, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Third Dynasty who succeeded Djoser and reigned about six years, known for the unfinished Buried Pyramid at Saqqara.
Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep
Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep, also known as Sobekhotep I, was a pharaoh of the early Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning around 1800 BC.
Sekhemre Shedwaset
Sekhemre Shedwaset, also written Sekhemre Shedwast, is an Egyptian king of the Second Intermediate Period known only from the Turin King List, probably of the Theban 16th Dynasty.
Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef
Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef, numbered Intef VII or Intef V in modern scholarship, was a Theban Seventeenth Dynasty king of Egypt known only from a coffin in the Louvre.
Sekhemre-Wepmaat Intef
Sekhemre-Wepmaat Intef, also known as Antef V, was a king of Egypt's Theban 17th Dynasty around the 1570s BC, succeeded by his brother Nubkheperre Intef.
Sekhemrekhutawy Khabaw
Sekhemrekhutawy Khabaw, known as Khabaw, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 13th Dynasty, dated to about 1775 BC, with a reign of roughly two to three years.
Sekheperenre
Sekheperenre was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, recorded in the Turin King List with a reign of about two months.
Sekhmet
Sekhmet (sḫmt, "the powerful one"), also spelled Sakhmet, is the ancient Egyptian lioness-headed Eye of Ra governing war, pestilence, and healing; her priests were physicians, and Amenhotep III erected hundreds of appeasement statues. Distinguishable from Bastet and Hathor, with whom she merged.