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Berlin Papyrus 6619
Berlin Papyrus 6619 is a fragmentary Middle Kingdom Egyptian mathematical papyrus held in Berlin, carrying four problems, including second-degree equations solved by false position, and a pregnancy test.
Besenmut (Fourth Prophet of Amun)
Besenmut, also written Bes-en-Mut or Besmut, is the name of a family of priests of Montu who served at Thebes during Egypt's 26th Dynasty, c. 664–525 BC.
Besenmut (priest of Montu)
Besenmut was a priest of the god Montu at Thebes who also held the civil offices of Mayor of Thebes and judge of the city, known from the block statue Cairo JE 36957.
Betrest
Betrest, also rendered Batirytes, was a royal woman of Egypt's First Dynasty, known from the annal tradition as the mother of Semerkhet, Anedjib's successor.
Bikheris
Bikheris, Greek Bicheris, is a possible pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, placed between Djedefre and Shepseskaf in Manetho's king list and credited with a 22-year reign, though no contemporary Egyptian evidence preserves his name.
Bilistiche
Bilistiche, also known as Belistiche, was a mistress of Ptolemy II Philadelphus who won two Olympic chariot victories at Olympia in 268 and 264 BC.
Bintanath
Bintanath, also spelled Bentanath or Bintanat, was the eldest daughter of Ramesses II and Queen Isetnofret, and later a great royal wife of Egypt's 19th Dynasty.
Biographical inscription of Djemi
The biographical inscription of Djemi is a First Intermediate Period stela in the Metropolitan Museum, recording an officer of Nubian mercenaries who claims to have enslaved northern Nubia.
Biographical inscription of Sabni
The biographical inscription of Sabni (Egyptian Sꜣbn(j)) is a hieroglyphic tomb-façade text at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan, recording the Dynasty 6 governor Sabni, son of Mekhu, under Pepi II.
Blacas papyri
The Blacas papyri are Imperial Aramaic papyri from Saqqara, Egypt, dating to the late 5th and 4th centuries BC, mostly fragments of the Story of Ahiqar.
Black-topped pottery
Black-topped pottery is a Predynastic Egyptian ware with a burnished red body and black rim, typical of Naqada I and II, about 4000 to 3000 BC.
Bocchoris vase
The Bocchoris vase is an Egyptian faience situla bearing the cartouche of pharaoh Wahkare Bakenrenef (Bocchoris), found in 1895 in an Etruscan chamber tomb at Tarquinia, Italy.
Book of Caverns
The Book of Caverns is a New Kingdom funerary text of ancient Egypt describing the sun god Ra's nightly journey through six caverns of the netherworld, or Duat.
Book of Gates
The Book of Gates is a New Kingdom Egyptian royal funerary text describing the sun god's nightly journey through the netherworld, divided into twelve serpent-guarded gates.
Book of Nut
The Book of Nut, anciently the Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars, is an Egyptian astronomical text first attested at Abydos in the 13th century BCE.
Book of the Dead
Book of the Dead (Egyptian: Going Forth by Day, prt m hrw): corpus of about 200 ancient Egyptian funerary spells on papyri, shrouds, and coffins, New Kingdom to Ptolemaic; numbered 1–165 by Lepsius in 1842; includes Spell 125 judgment.
Book of the Dead of Qenna
The Book of the Dead of Qenna is a New Kingdom funerary papyrus of a Theban merchant named Qenna, the longest manuscript in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden.
Book of the Earth
The Book of the Earth is an ancient Egyptian royal funerary composition of Dynasties 19–20, decorating royal sarcophagus chambers with scenes of the sun god's voyage through the underworld.
Book of the Faiyum
The Book of the Faiyum is an ancient Egyptian text presenting the Faiyum oasis as a mythical center of prosperity, centered on the crocodile god Sobek.
Book of the Heavenly Cow
The Book of the Heavenly Cow is an ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom, first attested in Tutankhamun's tomb, recounting humanity's rebellion against the sun god.
Books of Breathing
The Books of Breathing are Egyptian funerary texts of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, descended from the Book of the Dead and meant to reanimate the dead.
Boundary Stelae of Akhetaten
The Boundary Stelae of Akhetaten, also called the Amarna boundary stelae, are sixteen rock-cut stelae around Amarna marking the limits of the capital Akhenaten founded.
Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III
The Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III is a small bronze statuette in the Louvre showing the Egyptian pharaoh as a reclining sphinx, dated by inscription to 1479–1425 BC.
Brooklyn Medical Papyrus
The Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, also called the Snakebite Papyrus or Traité d'Ophiologie, is an Egyptian papyrus in the Brooklyn Museum describing 38 snakes and giving about 140 snakebite treatments.
Building works of Taharqa at Kawa and Gebel Barkal
The building works of Taharqa at Kawa and Gebel Barkal are temples built by the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa (r. 690–664 BC) at two great Amun sanctuaries in Nubia.
Bull Palette
The Bull Palette is a fragmentary greywacke ceremonial cosmetic palette from late Predynastic Egypt, about 3200 to 3100 BC, decorated with a bull trampling a defeated man and now in the Louvre.
Bunefer
Bunefer was an ancient Egyptian royal woman of the late Fourth or early Fifth Dynasty, buried in tomb G 8408 at Giza and recorded as a daughter or wife of King Shepseskaf.
Bureau of Correspondence of Pharaoh
The Bureau of Correspondence of Pharaoh was the royal archive and scriptorium at Akhetaten, Egypt's short-lived capital, where the Amarna letters, some 382 Akkadian cuneiform tablets, were found.
Bushel with ibex motifs
The bushel with ibex motifs is a tall painted terracotta beaker from the Susa I necropolis in Iran, dated 4200-3500 BCE and held in the Louvre.
Bust of Amenemhat V
The Bust of Amenemhat V is a siltstone head and shoulder of the 13th Dynasty king Amenemhat V, held in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum and dated to 1783-1780 BC.