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Sosibius (son of Sosibius)
Sosibius, son of the powerful minister Sosibius, was a Ptolemaic courtier and body-guard of the child king Ptolemy V who helped overthrow Agathocles and was forced from office by Tlepolemus.
Sostratus of Cnidus
Sostratus of Cnidus (Sostratos of Knidos), son of Dexiphanes, was a Greek architect and diplomat from Cnidus who served the first Ptolemies and is credited with the Pharos of Alexandria.
Sotades
Sotades of Maronea was a Greek satirical poet at the Alexandrian court of Ptolemy II in the 3rd century BC, namesake of the Sotadean meter.
South Saqqara Stone
The South Saqqara Stone is a 6th Dynasty Egyptian royal annals inscription on a basalt slab, found in 1932–33 in Pepi II's pyramid complex at South Saqqara.
Spell of the Twelve Caves
The Spell of the Twelve Caves, or Book of the Twelve Caverns, is an Egyptian funerary text listing the deities of the twelve caverns of the underworld.
Sphinx water erosion hypothesis
Sphinx water erosion hypothesis: Robert Schoch and John Anthony West's claim that rainfall runoff, not wind, weathered the Giza Sphinx enclosure, implying a date far older than the conventional Khafre attribution around 2500 BCE.
Standing Figure of Nefertiti
The Standing Figure of Nefertiti is a painted limestone statuette of Queen Nefertiti, dated 1351–1334 BC, excavated at Tell el-Amarna in 1912–1913 and held in Berlin.
Statue of Amenemhat III (Berlin)
The Statue of Amenemhat III (Berlin) is an over-lifesize granodiorite praying figure of the Twelfth Dynasty king, carved around 1850 BC, found in the Ptah temple of Memphis.
Statue of Djoser
The Statue of Djoser is a painted limestone statue of the Third Dynasty king Djoser, found at Saqqara in 1924 and the oldest known life-size Egyptian statue.
Statue of Horemheb and Amenia
The Statue of Horemheb and Amenia is an unfinished limestone double statue of the Egyptian general and later pharaoh Horemheb with his wife, made for his Saqqara tomb.
Statue of Karomama, the Divine Adoratrice of Amun
The Statue of Karomama is a bronze statue of the Egyptian priestess Karomama Meritmut, Divine Adoratrice of Amun, made around 850 BC and held in the Louvre.
Statue of Padiiset
The Statue of Padiiset, also called Padiiset's Statue, is a reused Egyptian statuette in the Walters Art Museum, re-inscribed around 900–850 BCE for Pa-di-iset, an envoy to Canaan.
Statue of Seneb
The Statue of Seneb is a painted limestone Old Kingdom sculpture of the dwarf official Seneb with his wife and children, found at Giza and kept in Cairo.
Statue of Sobekneferu
The Statue of Sobekneferu (Neferusobek) comprises surviving fragments depicting Sobekneferu, the female king who closed Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty around 1800 BC, including a headless Louvre statue and a Berlin bust destroyed in World War II.
Statuette of Neferefre
The statuette of Neferefre is a seated limestone statue of the Fifth Dynasty king Raneferef, found broken in his mortuary temple at Abusir and now in Cairo.
Statuette of the lady Tiye
The statuette of the lady Tiye is a painted wooden Egyptian statuette of a non-royal woman, made in Dynasty 18 and held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Stela of Ikhernofret
The Stela of Ikhernofret, also known as the Ikhernofret Stela, is a Middle Kingdom limestone stela recording treasurer Ikhernofret's part in the Osiris mysteries at Abydos under Senusret III.
Stela of Irtisen
The Stela of Irtisen is a limestone funerary stela of the sculptor Irtysen, made at Abydos around 2000 BC and held in the Louvre since 1838.
Stela of Neskhons
The Stela of Neskhons is a painted wooden funerary stela, made around 965 BC for Neskhons, a principal wife of the High Priest of Amun Pinedjem II at Thebes.
Stela of Pasenhor
The Stela of Pasenhor is a limestone Apis-bull stela from the Serapeum at Saqqara, dedicated by the Memphite priest Pasenhor in year 37 of Shoshenq V.
Stela of Sebek-khu
The Stela of Sebek-khu, or Sobek-khu Stele, is a Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian limestone stela found at Abydos in 1901 and held in the Manchester Museum.
Stela of Sehetepibre
The Stela of Sehetepibre is an Egyptian stela from Abydos, dated to the reign of Amenemhat III around 1825 BC and now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Stela of Somtutefnakht
The Stela of Somtutefnakht (Sematawytefnakht) is a hieroglyphic inscription of a Herakleopolitan priest, preserved in Naples, whose career spanned Egyptian kings, Persian rule after 343 BC, and Alexander's conquest.
Stelae of Darius I at the Suez canal
The Stelae of Darius I at the Suez canal are at least four granite stelae erected along the Nile–Red Sea canal under Darius I around 515–495 BC.
Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu
The Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu, also known as the Stele of Ankh-af-na-Khonsu, is a painted wooden offering stele of a Theban priest of Montu, dated to circa 680/70 BCE.
Story of Sinuhe
The Story of Sinuhe, also known as the Tale of Sinuhe, is an Egyptian narrative of exile and return from the Middle Kingdom, composed around 1900 BC.
Strategos of the nome
The strategos of the nome (Greek: strategos) was the military and civil governor of a nome in Ptolemaic Egypt, attested in papyri from the 3rd century BC.
Stratonice of Libya
Stratonice was a mistress of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the second ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, known only from an ancient list and a mausoleum at Eleusis near Alexandria.
Suemniut
Suemniut, also written Suemnut, was a royal cup-bearer or steward of Egypt's 18th Dynasty under Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, known for his Theban tomb TT 92.
Sun temple (Egyptian)
Dedicated to the sun god Ra, the Egyptian sun temple was a Fifth Dynasty royal sanctuary. Six were known from sources, but only two have been excavated.