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Puqudu
Puqudu (Puqūdu) was an Aramean tribe of the Babylonian borderlands, attested from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III (745–727 BC) and identified with the biblical Pekod.
Pushu-ken
Pushu-ken, also written Pušu-kēn, was an Old Assyrian merchant at Kanesh, modern Kültepe, Turkey, who headed an extensive trading firm there in the 19th century BC.
Puyemre
Puyemre, also transcribed Puimre, was a Second Priest of Amun at Thebes in the early Eighteenth Dynasty, serving Hatshepsut and Thutmose III; his rock-cut tomb is TT 39 at el-Khokha.
Puzer-Mama
Puzer-Mama, also written Puzur-Mama, was a ruler of the Mesopotamian city-state of Lagash around 2150 BC, known chiefly from a single royal inscription in which he claims the title king of Lagash.
Puzur-Ashur I
Puzur-Ashur I (Puzur-Aššur I) was an early independent ruler of the city-state of Assur around 2025 BC, father of Šalim-aḫum and ancestor of the native kings Ilušuma and Erišum I.
Puzur-Ashur II
Puzur-Ashur II (Puzur-Aššur II) was an early Old Assyrian king of Ashur, reigning about eight years around 1865–1857 BC, son of Sargon I and father of Naram-Sin.
Puzur-Ashur III
Puzur-Ashur III, also written Puzur-Assur III, was a king of Assyria who reigned ca. 1521-1498 BC, known from the Assyrian King List and building inscriptions at Assur.
Puzur-Inshushinak
Puzur-Inshushinak, also known as Kutik-Inshushinak, was the twelfth and last king of Awan, who ruled from Susa in southwestern Iran in the late 22nd century BC.
Puzur-Ishtar
Puzur-Ishtar (Puzur-Ištar) was a shakkanakku, or military governor, of the Syrian city of Mari after the Akkadian Empire's fall, known from an inscribed statue whose head is in Berlin.
Puzur-Nirah
Puzur-Nirah of Akshak is a legendary Early Dynastic Sumerian king, the fourth ruler of Akshak in the Sumerian King List, credited with a reign of 20 years.
Puzur-Sin
Puzur-Sin was a ruler of Assur shortly after Shamshi-Adad I who deposed Asinum, ending that dynasty's control, and is known solely from a single inscribed stone tablet.
Puzur-Suen (Gutian king)
Puzur-Suen, sometimes rendered Puzur-Sin, was a Gutian king in the Sumerian King List, son of Hablum, credited with a seven-year reign after the fall of the Akkadian dynasty.
Puzur-Suen (king of Kish)
Puzur-Suen is a legendary king of the Sumerian city of Kish, named in the Sumerian King List as the son of Kug-Bau and father of Ur-Zababa.
Pygmalion of Tyre
Pygmalion, also called Pigmalion, was a king of Tyre who reigned c. 841–794 BC, the last ruler named in Josephus's Tyrian king list down to Carthage's founding.
Pyla-Kokkinokremos
Pyla-Kokkinokremos, also known as Kokkinokremmos, is a short-lived fortified Late Bronze Age settlement on the south coast of Cyprus, abandoned suddenly early in the 12th century BC.
Pyramid of Djoser
Pyramid of Djoser (Step Pyramid), Saqqara: first Egyptian pyramid and oldest known Egyptian stone structure, built for Third Dynasty king Netjerykhet (Djoser) by architect Imhotep as six stacked mastabas, within a large Sed-festival enclosure with South Tomb.
Pyramid of Khafre
The Pyramid of Khafre, or Chephren, is the second of Giza's great pyramids, built c. 2558–2532 BC for Khufu's son Khafre, whose valley temple and Great Sphinx form a well-preserved complex.
Pyramid of Menkaure
Pyramid of Menkaure: smallest of the three Giza pyramids, tomb of the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Menkaure (c. 2532–2503 BC), known for its unfinished Aswan granite casing, queens' pyramids, Reisner's statue finds, and the rejected 2024 casing restoration.
Pyramid Texts
Pyramid Texts: Old Kingdom Egyptian funerary corpus inscribed in royal pyramid chambers from Unas's pyramid (c. 2350 BC), earliest substantial religious literature, ancestor of Coffin Texts and Book of the Dead.
Pyramidion
Pyramidion (benbenet): the capstone of an Egyptian pyramid or the pyramid-shaped tip of an obelisk, a miniature of the benben stone of Heliopolis. Surviving examples include the basalt pyramidion of Amenemhat III and Hatshepsut's red granite obelisk tip.
Pyramidion of Amenemhat III
The Pyramidion of Amenemhat III is a dark stone capstone from the king's mudbrick pyramid at Dahshur, Egypt, now displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Pyrgi tablets
The Pyrgi tablets, also called the Pyrgi gold plates, are three gold plates from about 500 BC recording a dedication by Thefarie Velianas of Caere to the goddess Astarte.
Pyrrhus's campaign in Sicily
Pyrrhus's campaign in Sicily, also called the Pyrrhic War in Sicily, was Pyrrhus of Epirus's 278–276 BC expedition against Carthage, invited by Sicily's Greek cities.
Qahedjet
Qahedjet, or Horus Qahedjet, is the Horus name of an Egyptian king of the late Third or early Fourth Dynasty, known chiefly from a limestone stela in the Louvre.
Qalhata
Qalhata (Khalhata) was a queen consort of Kush of the 25th Dynasty, wife of King Shabaqo and mother of King Tanwetamani, buried around 700 to 650 BCE at el-Kurru.
Qalparunda (Patina)
Qalparunda, in Hieroglyphic Luwian Halparuntiya, was king of Patina (Assyrian Unqi), a Syro-Anatolian kingdom in the Amuq Valley of southern Turkey, who paid tribute to Shalmaneser III in 857 BC.
Qar (official of Pepi I)
Qar, whose birth name was Meryre-nefer, was a high-ranking Sixth Dynasty Egyptian official who served King Pepi I and oversaw the pyramid cults of Khufu and Menkaure.
Qar (physician)
Qar was a physician and official of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, buried at Saqqara near Cairo, where his undisturbed tomb, mummy, and bronze surgical instruments were found in 2000.
Qar (vizier of Pepi II)
Qar was a vizier of Egypt during the Sixth Dynasty, the second-highest man after the king, buried at south Abusir in a tomb found in 1995.
Qareh
Khawoserre Qareh, or Qareh, was possibly a king of Egypt's 14th Dynasty in the Second Intermediate Period, dated c. 1770–1760 BC and known only from three scarab seals.