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Peseshet
Peseshet was an ancient Egyptian woman of the Old Kingdom, about 2500 BC, known from a false door in her son's Giza tomb that titles her overseer of female physicians.
Peshgaldaramesh
Peshgaldaramesh, also written Pešgaldarameš, was a king of the First Sealand Dynasty in 16th-century BC southern Mesopotamia, son of Gulkišar, known from a 474-tablet archive.
Peteese and Pihor
Peteese and Pihor, also known as Pedesi and Pihor, were two Nubian brothers deified after death and worshiped at Dendur in Lower Nubia under Roman rule.
Petiese (prince of Athribis)
Petiese was an official of Athribis in the Egyptian Delta who surrendered his residence city to the Kushite king Piye, as recorded on the Victory Stela of Piye.
Petiese (prophet of Amun)
Petiese, also written Pediese, was a prophet of Amun at Teudjoi in Middle Egypt who lived under the Persian king Darius I and wrote the Petition of Petiese.
Petition of Petiese
The Petition of Petiese, preserved as Papyrus Rylands IX, is a long Demotic Egyptian text written in 513 BCE under Darius I, recounting a priestly family's persecution.
Petosarapis
Dionysios Petosarapis was an Egyptian courtier and general of Ptolemy VI Philometor who, after the invasion of Antiochus IV ended in 168 BC, led a failed revolt in Alexandria.
Petosiris (High Priest of Thoth)
Petosiris was high priest of the temple of Thoth at Hermopolis in Middle Egypt around the Macedonian conquest of Egypt, known chiefly from his monumental family tomb at Tuna el-Gebel.
Petubastis (High Priest of Memphis)
Petubastis, also rendered Pedubast, was a High Priest of Ptah at Memphis from 104/3 to 76 BC, whose funerary epitaph records a pontificate of twenty-eight years.
Petubastis III
Petubastis III, also known as Padibastet or Pedubast III, was an Egyptian rebel king who ruled part of Egypt against Persian rule from 521 BC until about 518 BC.
Phanes of Halicarnassus
Phanes of Halicarnassus (Φάνης) was a Greek mercenary commander who served Pharaoh Amasis II, then defected to Cambyses II, aiding the Persian conquest of Egypt in 525 BC.
Pharaoh
The pharaoh was the ruler of ancient Egypt, holding supreme political and religious power as a god on earth until Cleopatra VII died in 30 BCE.
Pharaohs in the Bible
Pharaohs in the Bible: unnamed "Pharaoh" (Egyptian pr-ˁA, Great House) in Genesis and Exodus; named rulers Shishak (Shoshenq I), Neco II, Tirhakah, and Hophra; Neco II killed Josiah at Megiddo about 609 BC.
Phasaelis
Phasaelis was a 1st-century Nabataean princess, daughter of King Aretas IV and Queen Huldu, and the first wife of Herod Antipas, whose repudiation for Herodias provoked a war with Nabataea.
Phelles
Phelles (Pheles) was a king of Tyre who, according to Menander of Ephesus, murdered his brother Aserymus to seize the throne, reigned eight months, and was killed by Ithobalus, priest of Astarte.
Pherendates
Pherendates, called Farandata in Egyptian texts, was the Achaemenid satrap of Egypt under Darius I, known from demotic letters of 493–492 BC to the priests of Khnum at Elephantine.
Pherendates II
Pherendates II was a Persian installed as satrap (governor) of Egypt at Memphis by Artaxerxes III after the Achaemenid reconquest of 343 BC, during the Second Persian Period.
Philae obelisk
The Philae obelisk is a Ptolemaic granite obelisk from Philae, Egypt, brought to England by William John Bankes and erected at Kingston Lacy in Dorset in 1829.
Philammon
Philammon is a Greek personal name attested in ancient Egypt, borne by 161 known individuals, and also the name of a legendary musician said to be a son of Apollo.
Philensis decrees
The Philensis decrees, also called the Decrees of Philae, are two priestly decrees of Ptolemy V Epiphanes inscribed side by side on the temple wall at Philae in 186 and 185 BC.
Philinna papyrus
The Philinna papyrus is a Greek papyrus from Egypt, dated to the 1st century BC, preserving three magical healing spells in hexameter verse, including spells against burns and headache.
Philistine bichrome ware
Philistine bichrome ware, also called Philistine 2, is red-and-black painted Iron Age I pottery of Philistia, dated about 1150–1000 BC and a key marker of early Philistine settlement.
Philistine language
The Philistine language is the poorly attested language of the Philistines of Iron Age Philistia, known from about 40 inscriptions, of which only the Ekron dedication is a complete text.
Philistine settlement
The Philistine settlement was the establishment of Philistine communities in southern Canaan around 1175 BCE, founding the pentapolis of Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza.
Philistines (פלשתים)
Philistines (פלשתים, Pelishtim), Iron Age people of the Peleset/Sea Peoples who settled five city-states (Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron, Gath, Gaza) in southern coastal Canaan after Ramesses III's era, with Aegean-style material culture, biblical conflicts with Israel, and exile to Babylon around 600 BC.
Philocles
Philocles, also transliterated Philokles, was a Phoenician by birth and Greek by culture who ruled as King of the Sidonians, serving the first two Ptolemies until about 279 BC.
Philotera
Philotera was a princess of Ptolemaic Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and Berenice I and full sister of Ptolemy II, deified after her death.
Phoenicia
Phoenicia, also known as Phoinikia, was an ancient Levantine coastal region whose seafaring city-states like Tyre and Sidon created Mediterranean trade networks famed for purple dye.
Phoenicia under Assyrian rule
Phoenicia under Assyrian rule was the period from the 9th to the late 7th century BC when cities like Tyre and Sidon paid tribute to Assyria.
Phoenicia under Babylonian rule
Phoenicia under Babylonian rule was the period when Nebuchadnezzar II's Neo-Babylonian Empire governed the Phoenician coastal cities through vassal kings and tribute, ending with the Persian conquest of 539 BC.