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Pisindelis
Pisindelis was a dynast of Halicarnassus in Caria, the under-age son of Queen Artemisia I, who ruled as his regent under Persian suzerainty in the fifth century BC.
Pisiris
Pisiris, also known as Pisiri, was the last independent king of Carchemish, a Neo-Hittite kingdom on the Euphrates, conquered by Sargon II of Assyria in 717 BC.
Pithana
Pithana, also written Pitḫana, was an early 18th-century BC king of the Anatolian city of Kuššara who captured Kaneš and was the father of Anitta.
Pithom Stela
The Pithom Stela, or Stela of Pithom, is a hieroglyphic inscription of Ptolemy II on granite, found at Tell el-Maskhuta in 1883 and recording his works in the Wadi Tumilat.
Piyama-Kurunta
Piyama-Kurunta of Arzawa was an Arzawan prince, son of King Uhha-Ziti, defeated by the Hittite king Mursili II at Walma on the river Astarpa during the campaigns of Mursili's third and fourth regnal years.
Piyamaradu
Piyamaradu, also written Piyama-Radu, was a warlord of obscure origin who raided the Hittite Empire's western lands for roughly 40 years in the 13th century BC.
Piyassili
Piyassili, also known as Šarri-Kušuḫ, was a Hittite prince, a middle son of King Suppiluliuma I, made king of Carchemish after his father's Syrian conquests.
Piye
Piye, also spelled Piankhi or Piankhy, was a king of Kush ruling from Napata who conquered Egypt in the 8th century BC, founding the Twenty-fifth Dynasty.
Piye's campaign into Egypt
Piye's campaign into Egypt, also called the Piankhi campaign, was the Kushite king Piye's c. 730–727 BC march north against a Delta coalition led by Tefnakht of Sais.
Piyusti
Piyusti, also printed Wiušti, was the pre-Hittite king of Hattusa whom Anitta, king of Kussara, defeated and whose city he destroyed in the second half of the 18th century BC.
Pkidha
Pkidha, also rendered Peqida, is the first Christian bishop of Adiabene, east of the Tigris, recorded only in the disputed Chronicle of Arbela, with an episcopate dated 104–114 AD.
Plague in the Carthaginian army (396 BC)
The plague in the Carthaginian army of 396 BC was an epidemic that destroyed Himilco's army besieging Syracuse, with Diodorus reporting 150,000 dead and a Libyan revolt following.
Plague in the Carthaginian army (406 BC)
The plague in the Carthaginian army of 406 BC, also called the Pestilence of 406 BC, broke out during the siege of Akragas in Sicily, killing general Hannibal Mago.
Plague of Suppiluliuma I
The Plague of Suppiluliuma I, or Hittite plague, was a twenty-year epidemic in Hatti from about 1330 BCE that killed Suppiluliuma I and his son Arnuwanda II.
Plague Prayers of Mursili II
The Plague Prayers of Mursili II are Hittite cuneiform prayers in which King Mursili II asks the gods to end a plague that killed his subjects for twenty years.
Plastered human skulls
Plastered human skulls are Neolithic Levant skulls, about 8000 to 6000 BC, whose faces were remodelled in plaster, often with shells in the eye sockets.
Plimpton 322
Plimpton 322 is an Old Babylonian clay tablet from around 1800 BCE whose fifteen rows of numbers form Pythagorean triples; it is held at Columbia University.
Pococke Kition inscriptions
The Pococke Kition inscriptions are a Phoenician-language marble dedication stele from Kition, Cyprus, copied by Richard Pococke in 1738; the stone is lost and only his copy survives.
Poem of Pentaur
The Poem of Pentaur, also written Poem of Pentaour, is the Egyptian literary account of the battle of Kadesh under Ramesses II, carved on five temple walls.
Poetical Stela
The Poetical Stela of Thutmose III is a granite stela from Karnak where the god Amun-Re recounts victories granted to the king, now in Cairo.
Point Iria wreck
The Point Iria wreck, also known as the Iria wreck, is a Late Bronze Age shipwreck off Cape Iria in the Gulf of Argos, Greece, dated to about 1200 BC.
Pomegranate carved in the round
The pomegranate carved in the round is a small Neo-Assyrian ivory ornament from Nimrud, dating to the ninth or eighth century BCE and held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Poor Man of Nippur
The Poor Man of Nippur is a short Akkadian comic tale of 160 lines in which Gimil-Ninurta, a poor citizen of Nippur, cunningly takes revenge on the city's mayor.
Porsuk inscription
The Porsuk inscription is a single-line Hieroglyphic Luwian text on a limestone block from Zeyve Höyük, southern Cappadocia, dated to the 8th or early 7th century BC.
Post-imperial Assyria
Post-imperial Assyria is the Assyrian heartland of northern Mesopotamia in the roughly eight and a half centuries after the Neo-Assyrian Empire fell in 609 BC.
Potasimto
Potasimto was an Egyptian army commander under Pharaoh Psamtik II, leading foreign mercenaries in the 593 BC campaign against Kush, known from the Abu Simbel graffiti.
Pothinus
Pothinus, Greek Potheinos, was a eunuch courtier who served as regent for the young Ptolemy XIII, ordered Pompey's assassination in 48 BC, and was executed by Caesar.
Prayer of Nabonidus
The Prayer of Nabonidus (4Q242) is an Aramaic Dead Sea Scroll from Qumran Cave 4 in which the Babylonian king Nabonidus is healed of a seven-year disease by a Jewish exorcist.
Predynastic Egyptian mummies
Predynastic Egyptian mummies are preserved human bodies from Egypt's Predynastic period, preserved by natural desiccation in hot desert sand or deliberate embalming, with the best-known examples from Gebelein held by the British Museum.
Prehistoric Egypt
Prehistoric Egypt: the Egyptian past before writing, especially the Predynastic Period c. 5500–3100 BC (Badarian, Maadi, Naqada I–III/Dynasty 0 cultures), ending with Narmer's unification and the First Dynasty.