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Tay (treasurer)
Tay, also written Ty, was an 18th Dynasty Egyptian royal treasurer, or overseer of the seal, under Hatshepsut and Thutmose III; his tomb was found at Thebes in 2021.
Tefibi
Tefibi, more correctly read Iti-ibi, was the nomarch of Asyut in Middle Egypt during the later First Intermediate Period, serving the Herakleopolitan Tenth Dynasty in the generation before King Merikare.
Tefnakht
Tefnakht, also Tefnakhte, was a Delta ruler based at Sais who opposed the Kushite king Piye's conquest around 730 BC and is counted as founder of Egypt's 24th Dynasty.
Tefnakht II
Tefnakht II is the name some Egyptologists give to a hypothetical ruler of Sais, a possible close predecessor of Necho I in the Saite Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
Tefnakht's coalition against Piye
Tefnakht's coalition against Piye was an alliance of Delta rulers under Tefnakht of Sais, defeated when the Kushite king Piye campaigned down the Nile around 733 BC.
Tell el-Maskhuta bowls
The Tell el-Maskhuta bowls, also called the Tell el-Maskhuta Aramaic bowls, are four silver libation bowls from the 5th century BCE, dedicated to the goddess Hanilat.
Tem (queen of Mentuhotep II)
Tem was a queen of Mentuhotep II, the Theban king who reunited Egypt and founded the Middle Kingdom, buried in his temple complex at Deir el-Bahari.
Tempest Stele
The Tempest Stele, also written Tempest Stela, is a calcite stela of pharaoh Ahmose I recording a catastrophic storm, found in fragments at Karnak, Thebes.
Tentamun (18th Dynasty)
Tentamun was a princess of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, a daughter of the pharaoh Thutmose IV, known only from canopic jars found in his tomb KV43.
Tentamun (21st Dynasty)
Tentamun was a royal woman of ancient Egypt's early 21st Dynasty, presumed wife of Smendes, first king of the Tanite line, around 1069 BC, known chiefly from the Report of Wenamun.
Tenth Dynasty of Egypt
The Tenth Dynasty of Egypt, also called Dynasty 10, was a royal house based at Heracleopolis during the First Intermediate Period, rivaling the Theban Eleventh Dynasty until Mentuhotep II reunified Egypt.
Tentkheta
Tentkheta, also read Takheta, was a royal wife of Amasis II, penultimate pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty, whose titulary includes the rare title directress of the butchers of the Acacia House.
Teos of Egypt
Teos, also called Takhos, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 30th Dynasty whose anti-Persian expedition collapsed in 360 BC; overthrown by his own family, he died an exile in Persia.
Teti
Teti, also known as Othoes, was the first pharaoh of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, reigning from about 2345 to 2333 BC and buried in a pyramid at Saqqara.
Teti (son of Pepi)
Teti, son of Pepi, was an ancient Egyptian king's son attested in rock inscriptions at Arminna East as serving under Pharaoh Kamose during the wars against Kush.
Teti (vizier)
Teti was a vizier of ancient Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, serving King Pepi II late in his reign and known from a false door at South Saqqara.
Teti, son of Minhotep
Teti, son of Minhotep, held a temple office at Coptos in Upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, dismissed by the Theban king Nubkheperre Intef in Year 3.
Tetiankhkem
Tetiankhkem was a royal prince of ancient Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, a son of the pharaoh Teti and the queen Khuit, known only from a mastaba at Saqqara.
Tetisheri
Tetisheri, also rendered Teta-shera, was a queen of the Theban 17th Dynasty in sixteenth-century BCE Egypt, mother of Seqenenre Tao and grandmother of Ahmose I.
Tey
Tey, also written Tiy or Tiye, was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Ay, who ruled for about four years after Tutankhamun's death around 1323 BC.
Thaïs
Thaïs (Θαΐς) was a celebrated Athenian hetaira who accompanied Alexander the Great and later partnered Ptolemy I, known for the Persepolis fire story of 330 BC and her three children.
Thamthis
Thamthis, also spelled Tamphthis, is a putative last king of Egypt's 4th Dynasty, placed after Shepseskaf and before Userkaf; no contemporary inscription names him, and his existence is disputed.
The Blinding of Truth by Falsehood
The Blinding of Truth by Falsehood, also called the Tale of Truth and Falsehood, is an Egyptian tale in which the brothers Truth and Falsehood sue each other.
The Doomed Prince
The Doomed Prince is an ancient Egyptian tale on Papyrus Harris 500, in which seven Hathors decree a prince will die by dog, crocodile, or snake.
The Immortality of Writers
The Immortality of Writers, also known as Be a Writer, is a Ramesside Egyptian text praising the scribal profession and claiming only written works survive death.
The Quarrel of Apophis and Seqenenre
The Quarrel of Apophis and Seqenenre is a Late Egyptian story, set around 1560 BCE, in which the Hyksos king Apepi demands Seqenenre silence his hippopotamuses.
The Starving of Saqqara
The Starving of Saqqara is a 67-centimeter limestone sculpture of two emaciated seated figures, held by Concordia University in Montreal, with undeciphered inscriptions and no recorded find context.
The Taking of Joppa
The Taking of Joppa, also known as the Capture of Joppa, is an Egyptian tale in which General Djehuty captures the rebel city of Joppa by a trick.
The Younger Lady
The Younger Lady (KV35YL) is an unnamed ancient Egyptian mummy found in 1898 in tomb KV35, the tomb of Amenhotep II, and genetically identified as the mother of Tutankhamun.
Theban necropolis administration
The Theban necropolis administration ran royal tomb work in the Valley of the Kings through the Deir el-Medina workmen's community, from Horemheb to the Twentieth Dynasty.