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Overseas campaign of Manishtushu against Magan
The overseas campaign of Manishtushu against Magan was a naval expedition by Manishtushu, king of Akkad (c. 2269–2255 BC), who defeated 32 cities across the Persian Gulf and shipped black stone to Agade.
Overseer of cattle
The Overseer of cattle (imy-r ih.w) was an ancient Egyptian official title for the head of the state's cattle administration, attested from 2345 to 1150 BCE.
Overseer of royal works
The overseer of royal works, Egyptian imy-r k3t nbt nt nswt, was a senior Old Kingdom office organizing labor and resources for royal projects, above all pyramids.
Overseer of the treasuries
The overseer of the treasuries was an ancient Egyptian official in charge of the state treasury, attested from the First Dynasty into the New Kingdom.
Oxhide ingot
Oxhide ingots, also called oxhide copper ingots, are copper slabs with four corner handles that served as the standard of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean copper trade.
Oxyntas
Oxyntas was a Numidian prince, son of King Jugurtha, paraded in Marius' triumph in 104 BC and used as a figurehead by Samnite rebels in 90 BC.
Ozbaal (king of Byblos)
Ozbaal, also known as Uzbaal, was king of Byblos, a Phoenician city, in the early 4th century BC, known from his silver coinage and his mother Batnoam's sarcophagus inscription.
Paatenemheb
Paatenemheb (Pa-Aten-em-hab) was an Egyptian general and court official of Dynasty 18 who commanded Akhenaten's army and owned rock tomb TA24 at Amarna, dated c. 1340 BC.
Pabasa
Pabasa was great steward of the God's Wife of Amun Nitocris I at Thebes under Psamtik I, known from his rock-cut tomb TT279 at the Asasif.
Padi (king of Ekron)
Padi was king of Ekron, a Philistine city-kingdom and Assyrian vassal, deposed and handed to Hezekiah of Judah, then restored by Sennacherib in 701 BCE.
Padiamenope
Padiamenope, also known as Petamenophis or Pediamenopet, was a chief lector-priest at Thebes in the late 25th and early 26th Egyptian Dynasty, around 700 to 600 BC.
Padihorresnet
Padihorresnet, also known as Padihorresne, was a high steward of the God's Wife of Amun Nitocris at Thebes during Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty, attested from 664 to 526 BCE.
Padiiset (Envoy for Canaan)
Padiiset, also written Pa-di-iset, was an Egyptian diplomatic envoy of Canaan and Philistia, named on a usurped statue of about 900–850 BCE that bears the last known Egyptian mention of Canaan.
Pado'el
Pado'el, also known as Padael or Pudu'ilu, was a king of Ammon in the Transjordan, a loyal Assyrian vassal who paid tribute in 701 and 676 BC.
Pahemnetjer
Pahemnetjer, also spelled Pahemneter, was High Priest of Ptah at Memphis during the reign of Seti I, known from ushabti fragments found at Giza and as the father of Vizier Rahotep.
Pahhanate
Pahhanate, written Paḫamnata in cuneiform, was an Egyptian rābiṣu, or resident commissioner, at Ṣumur in Amurru, known only from the Amarna letters of the mid-14th century BC.
Pahir-ishshan
Pahir-iššan, also written Paḫir-iššan, was a king of Elam in the 14th century BC, son of the dynasty founder Igi-halki and father of the later kings Unpahaš-Napiriša and Kidin-Hutran I.
Palaic language
Palaic is an extinct Indo-European language of the Anatolian branch, spoken in the land of Palā in north central Anatolia and attested only in cuneiform ritual fragments from Hattusa.
Palaic peoples
The Palaic peoples were the inhabitants of Palā, a Bronze Age land in north-central Anatolia northwest of the Hittite heartland, known almost entirely through their language.
Palermo Stone
The Palermo Stone is a black basalt stela fragment bearing the oldest surviving royal annals of ancient Egypt, recording kings from predynastic times to the mid Fifth Dynasty, now kept in Palermo, Sicily.
Palistin
Palistin, also read Walistin, was an early Iron Age Syro-Hittite kingdom in the 'Amuq plain of north Syria, probably ruled from Tell Tayinat under King Taita.
Palm and Vine
Palm and Vine is an Akkadian disputation poem in which the date palm, king of trees, and the vine debate their superiority; only 54 middle lines survive, with no verdict.
Pamba (Hittite king)
Pamba is a king of Hatti known only from later literary tradition, which places him among seventeen Anatolian rulers who rebelled against Naram-Sin of Akkad around 2254–2218 BC.
Pami
Pami, also known as Pamay, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty during the Third Intermediate Period, ruling from Tanis about 785–774 BC and succeeded by his son Shoshenq V.
Pamphylians
The Pamphylians were the inhabitants of Pamphylia, the southern coastal plain of Anatolia between Attaleia and Side, speaking a distinctive Greek dialect with Anatolian influence.
Pan-Grave culture
The Pan-Grave culture is a Nubian archaeological culture named for its shallow, frying-pan-shaped graves, found from Middle Egypt to the 3rd cataract around 1800–1550 BCE.
Panamuwa I
Panamuwa I, son of Qarli, was a king of Samʾal in the first half of the eighth century BCE, known from an inscription on a statue of Hadad.
Panamuwa II
Panamuwa II was a king of Sam'al, an Aramean city state at Zincirli, who reigned as a vassal of Assyria and died in battle in 732 BC.
Panamuwa stele
The Panamuwa stele, or Panamuwa inscription, comprises two eighth-century BCE Sam'alian royal memorial inscriptions from Zincirli, ancient Sam'al, commemorating kings Panamuwa I and Panamuwa II.
Paneb
Paneb was chief workman of the right-hand side of the crew at Deir el-Medina, the village of royal tomb-builders in Thebes, flourishing around 1204–1193 BC.