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Sefire Steles
The Sefire Steles are three basalt stelae from Sefire near Aleppo, Syria, inscribed in Old Aramaic with a mid-8th-century BC vassal treaty between Bar-ga'yah of KTK and Mati'el of Arpad.
Segerseni
Segerseni was a ruler of Lower Nubia around 2000 BC, known from two rock inscriptions that give him an Egyptian-style royal titulary; his Nubian name suggests Nubian ancestry, and his dating is disputed.
Seha River Land
The Seha River Land was a Bronze Age kingdom in western Anatolia, part of Arzawa, attested in Hittite texts of the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries BC.
Sehebre
Sehebre, throne name Sehabra, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, known only from the Turin Canon, which credits him with a reign of 3 years and 1 day.
Seheqenre Sankhptahi
Seheqenre Sankhptahi was a pharaoh of the late Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, known from a Madrid stela and the Turin King List.
Sehetepebreankh-nedjem
Sehetepebreankh-nedjem, also written Sehetepibreankhnedjem, was a Twelfth Dynasty High Priest of Ptah at Memphis during the Middle Kingdom, known from a sandstone group statue commissioned by his son Nebpu and held in the Louvre.
Sehetepibre
Sehetepibre, fully Sehetepibre Sewesekhtawy, was the tenth pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty, reigning briefly around 1783–1781 BC and known almost entirely from the Turin King List and a few monuments.
Sehetepibre (stela owner)
Sehetepibre was an Egyptian official of the Twelfth Dynasty who served as deputy of the treasurer under Amenemhat III, known from his funerary stela Cairo CG 20538.
Sekhem-ankh-Ptah
Sekhem-ankh-Ptah, also written Ptah-sekhem-ankh, was an Egyptian official of the Fifth Dynasty, around 2465 to 2323 BC, known from a Giza mastaba and a Saqqara chapel now in Boston.
Sekhemka
Sekhemka was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian official whose painted limestone statue, made around 2400 BC, sold at auction in 2014 for a record £15.76 million.
Sekhemkare (prince)
Sekhemkare was a prince of ancient Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a son of King Khafre who served as chief justice and vizier and was buried in tomb G 8154 at Giza.
Sekhemkare Amenemhat Sonbef
Sekhemkare Amenemhat Sonbef is a ruler of the Thirteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, dated to about 1800–1796 BC, whose identity and name forms are debated.
Sekhemkhet
Sekhemkhet, also known as Sekhemket, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Third Dynasty who succeeded Djoser and reigned about six years, known for the unfinished Buried Pyramid at Saqqara.
Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep
Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep, also known as Sobekhotep I, was a pharaoh of the early Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning around 1800 BC.
Sekhemre Shedwaset
Sekhemre Shedwaset, also written Sekhemre Shedwast, is an Egyptian king of the Second Intermediate Period known only from the Turin King List, probably of the Theban 16th Dynasty.
Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef
Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef, numbered Intef VII or Intef V in modern scholarship, was a Theban Seventeenth Dynasty king of Egypt known only from a coffin in the Louvre.
Sekhemre-Wepmaat Intef
Sekhemre-Wepmaat Intef, also known as Antef V, was a king of Egypt's Theban 17th Dynasty around the 1570s BC, succeeded by his brother Nubkheperre Intef.
Sekhemrekhutawy Khabaw
Sekhemrekhutawy Khabaw, known as Khabaw, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 13th Dynasty, dated to about 1775 BC, with a reign of roughly two to three years.
Sekheperenre
Sekheperenre was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, recorded in the Turin King List with a reign of about two months.
Sekhmet
Sekhmet (sḫmt, "the powerful one"), also spelled Sakhmet, is the ancient Egyptian lioness-headed Eye of Ra governing war, pestilence, and healing; her priests were physicians, and Amenhotep III erected hundreds of appeasement statues. Distinguishable from Bastet and Hathor, with whom she merged.
Sekmem campaign
The Sekmem campaign was a military expedition led by Egyptian king Senusret III against the Levantine town of Sekmem, usually identified with Shechem, around the 1830s BC.
Sela inscription
The Sela inscription, also written Sela' or as-Sila', is a Neo-Babylonian cuneiform rock inscription and relief of Nabonidus, last king of Babylon, carved on a cliff in southern Jordan.
Seleucus (son of Bithys)
Seleucus, son of Bithys, was a Ptolemaic official of probable Rhodian origin who governed Cyprus as general, admiral, and high priest under Ptolemy VIII, known from four honorific inscriptions dated 142–131 BC.
Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D)
Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D) is a Sumerian royal hymn in which Shulgi, second king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, praises himself as an ideal ruler.
Sematawytefnakht
Sematawytefnakht, also rendered Somtutefnakht, was an Egyptian priest and dignitary of Heracleopolis whose career ran from the last native kings through the Second Persian Domination to early Macedonian rule.
Sembrouthes
Sembrouthes was an early king of Aksum of the 3rd century AD, known from a single stone inscription found at Dekemhare (Däqqamhare) in Eritrea, possibly the anonymous king of the Monumentum Adulitanum.
Semenkare
Semenkare, whose full titulary is Semenkare Nebnuni, was a poorly attested pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty in the 18th century BC, known chiefly from king lists.
Semenre
Semenre, also rendered Semenenra, is a poorly attested king of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, known only from one damaged entry in the Turin King List, dated around 1601–1600 BC.
Semerkhet
Semerkhet, also known as Horus Semerkhet or Semempses, was the seventh pharaoh of Egypt's First Dynasty, ruling around 2925–2916 BC and buried in Tomb U at Abydos.
Semiramis
Semiramis, or Sammuramat, is a legendary queen of Assyria and builder of Babylon in Greek legend, loosely attached to the historical Assyrian queen Sammuramat of the 9th century BCE.