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Antigone of Macedon
Antigone of Macedon was a 4th-century BC Macedonian noblewoman, niece of the regent Antipater, known as the mother of Berenice I and ancestor of Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty.
Anubis
Anubis, ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of embalming, mummification, and cemeteries and protector of graves; weighed hearts against Ma'at's feather and merged with Hermes as Hermanubis in the Greco-Roman world.
Apepi
Apepi, also Apophis or Ipepi, was a Hyksos king of the Fifteenth Dynasty who ruled from Avaris around 1585 to 1542 BC and fought the Theban kings Seqenenre and Kamose.
Aperanat
Aperanat, also written Aper-Anati, was a ruler of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period known from a single scarab in the Petrie Museum bearing the title heqa khasut, meaning ruler of foreign lands.
Aperel
Aperel ('Aper-El, also written 'Aperia) was a vizier of Egypt under Amenhotep III and probably Akhenaten, c. 1391–1353 BC, known from his rock-cut tomb at Saqqara, reached in 1987.
Apis (deity)
Apis (Hapi, Hep), the sacred bull deity of Memphis in ancient Egypt, living manifestation (ba) of Ptah; one bull at a time, identified by distinctive markings, buried as Osiris-Apis in the Saqqara Serapeum, basis of Serapis.
Apis bull stelae
Apis bull stelae, also called Serapeum stelae, are dated stone slabs set up in the Serapeum at Saqqara to commemorate sacred Apis bulls and their burials.
Apollonia (wife of Dryton)
Apollonia, also called Senmonthis, was a Greek-Egyptian woman of Pathyris in Upper Egypt who married the Cretan cavalry officer Dryton in 150 BC and is known through his family's bilingual papyrus archive.
Apollonius (dioiketes)
Apollonius was the dioiketes, chief financial official of Ptolemaic Egypt under Ptolemy II Philadelphos, serving about fifteen years until his dismissal and confiscation of property after 246 BC.
Apries
Apries, also known as Hophra, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty who reigned from 589 to 570 BC and was overthrown by his general Amasis.
Aramaic papyri from Egypt
The Aramaic papyri from Egypt, also known as the Elephantine papyri, are 1,042 fifth-century BC documents recording a Judean military colony at Elephantine with its own temple to YHW.
Archive of Hor
The Archive of Hor is a private archive of the 2nd-century BC Egyptian priest Hor of Sebennytos, found at Memphis, holding 63 texts of dreams, oracles, petitions, and prayers.
Aristomenes of Alyzia
Aristomenes of Alyzia, also known as Aristomenes of Alyzeia, was an Acarnanian Greek who served as regent of Ptolemaic Egypt for the child king Ptolemy V.
Ariston (explorer)
Ariston (Ἀρίστων) was a Greek explorer dispatched by Ptolemy II Philadelphos to investigate the Arabian coast, remembered for an altar to Poseidon Pelagios at Poseideion.
Aristonicus (eunuch)
Aristonicus was a eunuch of Ptolemy V of Egypt, raised with the king, who commanded the cavalry against the Egyptian revolt in the Delta in 185/4 BC.
Armant Stela
The Armant Stela is a rose-granite stela of pharaoh Thutmose III erected in the temple of Montu at Armant, found in 1936-1937 and now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Arsinoe I
Arsinoe I, also Arsinoë I, was a Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, daughter of Lysimachus of Thrace and first wife of Ptolemy II, exiled to Coptos in the 270s BC.
Arsinoe II
Arsinoe II, also known as Arsinoë II Philadelphus, was a Ptolemaic queen who married her brother Ptolemy II and was later worshipped as a goddess.
Arsinoe III
Arsinoe III (Arsinoë III) was a Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, wife of her brother Ptolemy IV and mother of Ptolemy V, murdered in 204 BC.
Arsinoe of Macedon
Arsinoe of Macedon (Arsinoe of Macedonia) was a 4th-century BC Macedonian woman, said to have been a concubine of Philip II, wife of Lagus, and mother of Ptolemy I Soter.
Arsinoite nome
The Arsinoite nome, Greek Arsinoites or Crocodilopolites, was the administrative district of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt covering the Fayum basin, renamed for Arsinoe II under Ptolemy II and heavily reshaped by land reclamation.
Artakama
Artakama (Artacama) was a Persian noblewoman, daughter of Artabazus, married to Ptolemy, the future Ptolemy I of Egypt, at the Susa weddings of 324 BC.
Ashakhet I
Ashakhet I was a Memphite priest of the Ptah cult in the early Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt, known from the genealogy on Serapeum stele Louvre 96 and dated to the reign of Amenemnisu.
Ashayet
Ashayet, also read Ashait, was a queen consort of Mentuhotep II in Eleventh Dynasty Egypt, buried in a shaft tomb at his Deir el-Bahari temple.
Ashurbanipal's invasion of Egypt
Ashurbanipal's invasion of Egypt was an Assyrian campaign in 667 BC in which king Ashurbanipal defeated the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa near Memphis and retook the city.
Asiatic campaign of Pepi I
The Asiatic campaigns of Pepi I were Egyptian punitive expeditions against the Asiatic Sand-dwellers, commanded by the official Weni under Pepi I of the 6th Dynasty.
Asiatic campaigns of Thutmose III
The Asiatic campaigns of Thutmose III were at least seventeen Egyptian expeditions into Syria and Palestine over twenty years, beginning with the victory at Megiddo and reaching the Euphrates.
Assassination of Amenemhat I
The assassination of Amenemhat I was the murder of the founder of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty in a palace conspiracy by his own court and guard, in regnal year 30.
Assyrian conquest of Egypt
The Assyrian conquest of Egypt, also known as Esarhaddon's Egyptian campaigns, was a series of Neo-Assyrian campaigns against Kushite-ruled Egypt, 671-663 BCE, reaching from the sack of Memphis to the sack of Thebes.
Astarte and the Insatiable Sea
Astarte and the Insatiable Sea, also called the Astarte Papyrus, is an Egyptian mythological tale in which the goddess Astarte negotiates with the hostile Sea.