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Qarli (son of Panamuwa)
Qarli of Sam'al was the father of King Panamuwa I of Sam'al, an Iron Age city state at Zincirli, and is known only from his son's Hadad Statue inscription.
Qasr Ibrim archive
The Qasr Ibrim archive is the body of documents recovered at Qasr Ibrim, a fortress in Lower Nubia, Egypt, occupied from the eleventh century BC to 1812.
Qataban
Qataban (Qatabān) was a major ancient South Arabian kingdom in Yemen, centered on Wadi Bayhan, from the 7th century BC to the 2nd century AD.
Qatazilu
Qatazilu, also rendered Qatazili, was a king of Kummuh, a Neo-Hittite kingdom on the upper Euphrates, known from the annals of Shalmaneser III c. 858 BC.
Qaus-gabri
Qaus-gabri, also known as Kaus-gabri or Qos-gabr, was king of Edom in the seventh century BC, a loyal vassal of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal attested in their inscriptions.
Qausmalaka (king of Edom)
Qausmalaka, also rendered Kausmalaka or Qosmalaka, was a king of Edom who appears in the tribute lists of Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria around 745 BC.
Qayn (South Arabian title)
Qayn is a title in Ancient South Arabian inscriptions for an administrative official serving a king, temple, or city rather than a tribe, attested in Qatabanic and Sabaic texts.
Qaynu (son of Geshem)
Qaynu bar Geshem was a king of Qedar around 400 BCE, attested by an Aramaic votive silver bowl offering to the goddess Han-'Illat, found in Egypt.
Qen (workman of Deir el-Medina)
Qen was a sculptor in the workmen's community of Deir el-Medina under Ramesses II, known chiefly from his family tomb TT 4 and two funerary stelae.
Qore (title)
Qore is the Kushite royal title meaning 'king' or 'ruler', borne by the kings of Kush and, in the Meroitic period, by reigning queens (kandakes) as well.
Qos-gabri (king of Edom)
Qos-gabri, also written Qaus-gabri, was a king of Edom in the 7th century BC, an Assyrian vassal known from cuneiform inscriptions and a clay bulla from Petra.
Que
Que (Assyrian Quwê; Luwian Ḫiyawa) was a Neo-Hittite kingdom of the Cilician plain around modern Adana in southern Turkey, annexed by Assyria in the late eighth century BC.
Queen Puabi's headdress
Queen Puabi's headdress is a gold, lapis lazuli, and carnelian ornament from Early Dynastic Ur, found in her tomb and held by the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.
Quetta ware
Quetta ware is a black-on-buff painted ceramic tradition of the Quetta valley in northern Balochistan, Pakistan, made by settled pre-Harappan farming villages during the 4th and 3rd millennia BC.
Qurna Queen
The Qurna Queen is the modern name for an unnamed royal woman of ancient Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, buried around 1600 BC at Qurna on the west bank at Thebes.
Ra
Ra (Re), ancient Egypt's sun god and principal creator deity, whose cult centered on Heliopolis; merged as Ra-Horakhty, Amun-Ra, Atum; attested in Pyramid Texts c. 2400-2300 BCE; honored with 5th Dynasty sun temples.
Rab (Punic office)
Rab (Punic rb, 'chief') was a title in Carthaginian public life covering several distinct offices: generals (rab mahanet), the chief priest (rab kohanim), and the state treasurer, known chiefly from Punic inscriptions.
Rab mahanet
Rab mahanet (Punic: rb mḥnt) was the Carthaginian military office of "chief of the army", held by generals elected by the popular assembly, often from the ruling family.
Rab-mag
Rab-mag is a Babylonian court title, Hebraized from Akkadian rab mugi, a high military official borne by Nergal-sharezer at the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC.
Rabâ-ša-Marduk
Rabâ-ša-Marduk, also transcribed Rabiā-ša-Marduk, was a Babylonian physician of the Kassite period, possibly 13th century BC, known from a headache tablet and journeys to the Hittite court.
Rabbel I
Rabbel I, also printed Rabel I or ar-Rabil I, was a poorly attested king of the Nabataeans who reigned briefly around 90–87 BC, between Obodas I and Aretas III.
Rabbel II
Rabbel II Soter was the last king of the Nabataeans, reigning from 70 to 106 CE; after his death, Trajan annexed the kingdom as the Roman province of Arabia.
Rabsaris
Rabsaris (Hebrew רַב־סָרִיס, Rab-saris) is the Hebrew and Aramaic form of the Akkadian court title rab ša rēši, a high-ranking official of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires.
Rabshakeh of Sennacherib
The Rabshakeh of Sennacherib, or rab šaqê, was an unnamed high-ranking Assyrian court official who, per 2 Kings 18:17, addressed Jerusalem's people from its walls in Hebrew in 701 BC.
Raemka
Raemka, also written Raemkai, was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian prince, called 'king's bodily son', known from a Saqqara tomb chapel he took over from the official Neferiretnes.
Raherka and Meresankh
Raherka and Meresankh is a painted limestone pair statue of an Old Kingdom official, an inspector of scribes, and his wife, held in the Louvre since 1938.
Rahotep
Rahotep, or Sekhemre-Wahkhau Rahotep, was a pharaoh of the Second Intermediate Period, usually assigned to the Theban 17th Dynasty and known chiefly from a stela at Koptos.
Rahotep (prince)
Rahotep was a prince of early Fourth Dynasty Egypt, generally taken as a son of Snofru, known from his Meidum mastaba and his famous painted statues with his wife Nofret.
Raid of Radm
The raid of Radm was a war fought in the land of the Radmān tribe by the Sabaean king Sʿds²ms¹ ʾs¹rʿ against Hadhramaut, Qataban, and tribal allies.
Rakhaldas Banerji
Rakhaldas Banerji, also known as R. D. Banerji, was an Indian archaeologist and historian who excavated Mohenjo-daro in 1922–23, establishing its great antiquity and its link to the Indus civilization.