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Prehotep (vizier)
Prehotep, more fully written (Pa)Rahotep or Prahotep, was a vizier of Egypt under Ramesses II of the 19th Dynasty, serving at least 33 years and buried at Sedment.
Prehotep II
Prehotep II, Egyptian Prahotep, was a vizier of Egypt under Ramesses II in the 19th Dynasty, the second of two same-named viziers, holding the northern office at Piramesse.
Pricot de Sainte-Marie steles
The Pricot de Sainte-Marie steles are over 2,000 Punic votive steles dug up at Carthage in 1874–1875, most salvaged after the ship carrying them sank at Toulon.
Priest of Alexander and the Ptolemies
The Priest of Alexander and the Ptolemies was the senior annual priesthood of the Ptolemaic dynastic cult in Alexandria, whose name dated official documents throughout Egypt.
Priest-King (Mohenjo-daro statue)
The Priest-King is a carved steatite bust of a bearded man wearing a fillet headband, excavated at Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan, in 1925-26 and held in the National Museum, Karachi.
Priestess of Hathor
Priestess of Hathor, also translated Prophetess of Hathor, was a title held by women serving the goddess Hathor in ancient Egypt, attested from 2686 BCE.
Priestess of Neith
Priestess of Neith is an ancient Egyptian female priestly title of the goddess Neith, attested from 2686 to 2161 BCE, in the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period.
Priesthood of Amun
The priesthood of Amun, also known as the Amun priesthood, served the god Amun at Karnak in Thebes; in the 21st Dynasty its High Priests effectively ruled Upper Egypt.
Priesthood of Tanit at Carthage
The priesthood of Tanit at Carthage served the goddess Tanit and Baal Hammon, known chiefly from tophet inscriptions of the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE.
Prisms of Sargon II
The Prisms of Sargon II, also known as Sargon II's Prisms, are clay prisms inscribed with the annals of Sargon II, king of Assyria (721–705 BCE), found at Nimrud and Nineveh.
Prisse Papyrus
The Prisse Papyrus, or Papyrus Prisse, is a Middle Kingdom hieratic scroll of about 1800 BC holding the complete Instruction of Ptahhotep, called the oldest book in the world.
Proclamation of Ammi-ṣaduqa
The Proclamation of Ammi-ṣaduqa, or Edict of Ammi-ṣaduqa, is the mēšarum debt-remission edict of Babylonian king Ammi-ṣaduqa, issued in 1646 BC, canceling debts and freeing debt-servants.
Prophecy of Neferti
The Prophecy of Neferti, also known as the Admonitions of Neferti, is an ancient Egyptian text foretelling chaos and the rise of King Amenemhat I.
Proto-Aeolic capitals
Proto-Aeolic capitals, also called Proto-Ionic or volute capitals, are Iron Age stone capitals carved with two volutes, used in the gates and palaces of Israel, Judah, Moab, and Ammon.
Proto-cuneiform
Proto-cuneiform, also called archaic cuneiform, is the earliest attested stage of cuneiform writing, found on clay tablets from Uruk, southern Iraq, dated c. 3350–3000 BC.
Proto-Elamite period
The Proto-Elamite period is the earliest phase of writing on the Iranian plateau, centered on Susa and Anshan, with about 1,700 undeciphered administrative clay tablets from around 3050 to 2900 BC.
Proto-Elamite script
Proto-Elamite is one of the world's earliest writing systems, used in Iran around 3100–2900 BC. Its roughly 1,600 clay tablets are administrative records, and the script remains only partly deciphered.
Proto-Elamite tablets (Tepe Yahya)
The Proto-Elamite tablets of Tepe Yahya are a small archive of 26 administrative clay tablets, written in the undeciphered Proto-Elamite script and excavated at Tepe Yahya in Kerman province, southeastern Iran.
Psammetichus (son of Theocles)
Psammetichus, son of Theocles, was a second-generation Greek soldier named in the mercenary graffiti carved at Abu Simbel during pharaoh Psammetichus II's Nubian campaign of 593/591 BC.
Psammuthes
Psammuthes, Egyptian Pasherienmut and Greek Psammuthis, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 29th Dynasty who briefly held the kingship around 392/1 BC between Nepherites I and Hakor.
Psamtik I
Psamtik I, also known as Psammetichus I, was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt who reigned from 664 to 610 BC, expelled the Assyrians, and founded the Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
Psamtik II
Psamtik II (Psammetichus II, Psamtek II; throne name Neferibre) was a pharaoh of Egypt's 26th Dynasty, reigning from 595 to 589 BC and leading a major campaign against Nubia in 593 BC.
Psamtik III
Psamtik III, also called Psammetichus III, was the last pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty, reigning 526 to 525 BC until Cambyses II of Persia conquered Egypt.
Psamtik IV
Psamtik IV, also Psammetichus IV or Psamtek IV, was a rebel king who ruled parts of Egypt during the revolt against Persian rule of 487-485 BC.
Psamtik-seneb
Psamtik-seneb, also known as Psammetichus-seneb, was governor of the Saite nome in the western Nile Delta during the reign of Psamtik I of Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
Psherenptah III
Psherenptah III, also spelled Pasherienptah III, was High Priest of Ptah at Memphis from 76 BC to 41 BC, serving Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra VII.
Psusennes I
Psusennes I, throne name Akheperre Setepenamun, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-first Dynasty who reigned at Tanis; his intact tomb, with a silver coffin, was found by Pierre Montet in 1939.
Psusennes II
Psusennes II, also known as Pasebakhaenniut II, was the last pharaoh of Egypt's 21st Dynasty, ruling from Tanis in the Nile Delta around 967 to 944 BC.
Psusennes III
Psusennes III, in Egyptian Pasebakhaenniut, was High Priest of Amun at Thebes in the late Twenty-first Dynasty, succeeding his father Pinedjem II around 969 BC.
Psylli
The Psylli (Greek Ψύλλοι) were an ancient Libyan people of the Greater Syrtis coast, famed in Greek and Roman tradition for immunity to snake venom.