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Papyrus Salt 825
Papyrus Salt 825 is a Ptolemaic-period Egyptian mythological-ritual papyrus in the British Museum, bought from Henry Salt's collection in 1835, preserving a Ritual of the House of Life.
Paraemheb
Paraemheb, also written Pra'emhab, was a vizier of Egypt who served under Amenmesse in the late Nineteenth Dynasty, around 1200 BC, during the succession struggle with Seti II.
Paraetaceni
The Paraetaceni (Greek Παρητακηνοί) were a people of the mountain district of Paraetacene between Media and Persis, named by Herodotus as one of the six Median tribes.
Parahu
Parahu, also printed Parehu, is the only named chief of Punt known from ancient Egyptian records, depicted with his wife Ati in Queen Hatshepsut's Punt reliefs at Deir el-Bahari.
Pareherwenemef (20th dynasty)
Pareherwenemef was a prince of ancient Egypt, the fifth-listed son of Ramesses III of the 20th Dynasty, buried in tomb QV 42 in the Valley of the Queens.
Parennefer (royal butler)
Parennefer was a royal butler and childhood tutor of Akhenaten, buried in Theban Tomb 188 and Amarna tomb 7, where his reward of gold is depicted.
Parennefer called Wennefer
Parennefer called Wennefer was a High Priest of Amun of ancient Egypt in the late 18th Dynasty, distinct from an earlier Parennefer, tutor of Akhenaten, and a later Wenennefer.
Parita
Parita was a ruler of the Iron Age kingdom of Hamath in the Orontes valley of western Syria in the early 9th century BC, the father and predecessor of King Urḫilina.
Parsua
Parsua, also called Parsuash or Parsumash, was a land of the central Zagros mountains named in Neo-Assyrian records from the 9th century BC and later made an Assyrian province.
Paser (mayor of East Thebes)
Paser was mayor of Thebes, an official of Ramesses III's court in the early 20th Dynasty, known from relief blocks of his mortuary chapel found at Medinet Habu.
Paser (vizier)
Paser, also known as Paser I, was Vizier of the South under the pharaohs Seti I and Ramesses II, active from about 1285 to 1255 BC.
Paser II
Paser II was a Viceroy of Kush towards the end of Ramesses II's reign, son of Minmose, High Priest of Min and Isis at Akhmim.
Pashed
Pashed, usually written Pashedu, was a workman of Deir el-Medina in Egypt's 19th Dynasty who served under Sety I and Ramesses II and owned Theban tomb TT3.
Pashhur son of Immer
Pashhur, also spelled Pashur, was a Jerusalem priest of the house of Immer who had the prophet Jeremiah beaten and confined in the temple stocks under King Jehoiakim.
Pauli Gerrei trilingual inscription
The Pauli Gerrei trilingual inscription is a Greek, Latin, and Punic votive dedication to the healing god Asclepius Merre, found in Sardinia and dated to the 1st century BC.
Paweraa
Paweraa, also written Pewero, was mayor of the West of Thebes and chief of the necropolis police under Ramesses IX, known from the tomb robbery papyri.
Pawura
Pawura, also known as Pauru, was an Egyptian archer-commander serving in Canaan in the mid-fourteenth century BC, known through the Amarna letters, the cuneiform diplomatic archive found at Tell el-ʿAmarna.
Pax Assyriaca
Pax Assyriaca is a modern term for the period of Neo-Assyrian hegemony, especially under Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Ashurbanipal, when the empire prospered and fought no major internal wars.
Pax Sumerica
Pax Sumerica refers to the stability and centralized order of the Third Dynasty of Ur, which ruled southern Mesopotamia from about 2112 to 2004 BC and left one of antiquity's best-documented records.
Pay (Deir el-Medina workman)
Pay was a draughtsman of Amun in the Place of Truth at Deir el-Medina in Thebes, active in the early years of Ramesses II, who founded a family dynasty of draughtsmen.
Payeftjauemawyneith
Payeftjauemawyneith was a high steward and elite official of Late Saite Egypt, serving under King Apries of Dynasty 26 and known from four statues, including British Museum EA 83.
Pazarcık Stele
The Pazarcık Stele (Pazarcik Stela) is an Assyrian cuneiform boundary stone found at Kızıkapanlı near Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, marking the border between Kummuh and Gurgum.
Peace of 201 BC
The Peace of 201 BC, also called the Peace of Scipio, was the treaty between Rome and Carthage that ended the Second Punic War after the Battle of Zama.
Peace of 306 BC
The Peace of 306 BC, also called the Treaty of Agathocles and Carthage, was the treaty between Carthage and Agathocles of Syracuse ending their war begun in 312 BC.
Pebatjma
Pebatjma, also printed Pabatma, was a Kushite royal wife of King Kashta around 750 BC, probably also his sister, and the mother of Amenirdis I, God's Wife of Amun.
Pebekkamen
Pebekkamen was Chief of the Chamber in the court of Ramesses III, first-named in the Judicial Papyrus of Turin among the harem conspirators of about 1155 BCE.
Pedon
Pedon, son of Amphinnes, was a man in the service of a Saite pharaoh of Egypt's 26th Dynasty, known from a basalt block statue he dedicated at Priene.
Pedubast I
Pedubast I, whose Manethonian form is Petubastis, was a king of ancient Egypt's Twenty-third Dynasty who ruled from Thebes in parallel with Shoshenq III of Tanis.
Pedubast II
Pedubast II is a poorly attested king of ancient Egypt's Third Intermediate Period, thought to have ruled part of the Nile Delta in the 8th century BC.
Peftjauawybast
Peftjauawybast, also Peftjaubast, was a king at Herakleopolis in Middle Egypt during the late Third Intermediate Period, c. 728 BC, known from Piye's Victory Stela as one of four kings who submitted to the Kushite king.