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Rapanu
Rapanu, also written Rap'anu, was a scribe and high official of the kingdom of Ugarit on the north Syrian coast in the 13th century BC.
Rapanu archive
The Rapanu archive is the private library of tablets from the house of Rapanu, a diplomat at Ugarit on the Syrian coast, buried by the city's destruction around 1190–1185 BC.
Raphia Decree
The Raphia Decree, also called the Decree of Raphia, is a trilingual Egyptian priestly decree of 217 BC honoring Ptolemy IV after the Battle of Raphia.
Rashepses
Rashepses, also read Shepsesre, was a chief justice and vizier of ancient Egypt's Fifth Dynasty who served King Djedkare Isesi and was buried in a large mastaba tomb at Saqqara.
Rassam Cylinder
The Rassam Cylinder, also called Prism A, is a ten-sided clay prism inscribed with the annals of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, found at Nineveh in 1854.
Rassam Obelisk
The Rassam Obelisk is a fragmentary basalt obelisk of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, found in many pieces at Nimrud in 1853 and reconstructed for the British Museum.
Ravi phase
The Ravi phase, also called the Ravi aspect, is the earliest known occupation at Harappa, a village settlement of hand-built pottery dating from about 3700 to 2800 BCE.
Rawer (official)
Rawer was an Old Kingdom Egyptian official at the 5th Dynasty court, likely under King Neferirkare Kakai, known from his large mastaba tomb at Giza.
Rawer (vizier)
Rawer was a vizier of ancient Egypt's 6th Dynasty who served King Pepi I, known chiefly from his mastaba tomb at Saqqara near Teti's pyramid.
Rbh of Dʿmt
Rbḥ was a ruler of the pre-Aksumite kingdom of Dʿmt in the northern Ethiopian highlands, attested by an incense burner inscription from Addi Gelemo in Tigray, Ethiopia.
Rdm of Dʿmt
Rdm, vocalized Radiʿum, was a king of Dʿmt in the northern Ethiopian highlands during the early first millennium BC, bearing the titles victorious king of S¹ryt and mukarrib of Dʿmt.
Reanap
Reanap was an Egyptian commissioner of the mid-14th century BC, attested in the Amarna letters, who served as the pharaoh's representative among the vassal rulers of Egyptian-dominated Syria and Palestine.
Rebellion of Aata
The rebellion of Aata was a revolt against the Egyptian king Ahmose I in the early 18th Dynasty, after his Nubian campaign, ending with Aata captured alive at Tent-taa.
Rebellion of Samsu-iluna against Iluma-ilum
The rebellion of Samsu-iluna against Iluma-ilum was the revolt of southern Babylonia around 1742–1731 BCE, in which Iluma-ilum founded the Sealand dynasty that ruled the far south until about 1475 BCE.
Rebuilding of Babylon by Esarhaddon
The rebuilding of Babylon by Esarhaddon was the Assyrian king's restoration of the city his father Sennacherib sacked in 689 BC, rebuilding Esagil and restoring Marduk's cult.
Rebuilding of the Ishtar Gate
The rebuilding of the Ishtar Gate was Nebuchadnezzar II's reconstruction of Babylon's main gateway with blue glazed bricks showing dragons, bulls, and lions, now displayed in Berlin.
Reconquest of Nubia by Mentuhotep II
The reconquest of Nubia by Mentuhotep II (r. c. 2055–2004 BC) was a series of campaigns re-establishing Egyptian control over Lower Nubia, reaching as far south as Buhen.
Recovery expedition of Sabni
The recovery expedition of Sabni was an Old Kingdom Egyptian venture into Nubia under Pepi II, recovering the body of Sabni's father Mekhu, governor of Aswan.
Recueil des inscriptions de l'Éthiopie
The Recueil des inscriptions de l'Éthiopie (RIÉ) is the standard corpus of pre-Aksumite and Aksumite inscriptions of Ethiopia and Eritrea, published in Paris from 1991.
Red Pyramid
The Red Pyramid at Dahshur, Egypt, is the third pyramid of King Sneferu (4th Dynasty), the third-largest Egyptian pyramid after Khufu's and Khafre's, with a ~43-degree slope, three corbelled chambers, a granite sarcophagus, and about 10–11 years of construction.
Reforms of Hezekiah
The reforms of Hezekiah, also called Hezekiah's religious reform, were a late eighth century BCE program removing high places, Asherah poles, and the Nehushtan, centralizing sacrifice in the Jerusalem Temple.
Reforms of Jeroboam I
The reforms of Jeroboam I, also called Jeroboam's cultic reform, were religious measures by the first king of northern Israel, establishing golden calves at Dan and Bethel.
Reforms of Josiah
The Reforms of Josiah, also called the Josianic reform, were King Josiah's religious reforms of Judah in 622 BC, purging foreign cult objects and centralizing all sacrifice at the Jerusalem Temple.
Reforms of Urukagina
The Reforms of Urukagina, also called the Edicts of Urukagina, are royal decrees issued by Urukagina, king of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash, in the mid-24th century BCE.
Rehuankh
Rehuankh is an ancient Egyptian personal name, written in hieroglyphs, recorded in three sentences in the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae corpus from 2278 to 1688 BCE.
Rehuerdjersen
Rehuerdjersen was an ancient Egyptian royal treasurer of the early Twelfth Dynasty, serving under Amenemhat I and Senwosret I, and known from a stela at Abydos and a mastaba tomb at Lisht North.
Reign of Arakamani
Arakamani, also called Arkamaniqo and known to the Greeks as Ergamenes, was a king of Kush who reigned c. 295–275 BCE and is treated as the first king of the Meroitic phase.
Reign of Ay
The Reign of Ay was the four-year rule of pharaoh Ay of Egypt's Dynasty 18, from about 1327 to 1323 BC, after Tutankhamun died without an heir.
Reign of Cleopatra
The Reign of Cleopatra, also called the Reign of Cleopatra VII, was the last Ptolemaic ruler's 21-year rule of Egypt, from 51 to 30 BC.
Reign of Cleopatra II and Ptolemy VI
The reign of Cleopatra II and Ptolemy VI was the joint rule of a brother and sister over Ptolemaic Egypt in two phases, 170–164 and 163–145 BC.