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Setne Khamwas and Si-Osire
Setne Khamwas and Si-Osire, also called Setne II, is the second Demotic Egyptian tale of the magician-prince Setne, in which his son leads him through the netherworld.
Settlement of the Meshwesh in Egypt
The settlement of the Meshwesh in Egypt was the settling of Libyan tribes in the western Delta from the 13th century BC, eventually producing the Libyan dynasties.
Setut
Setut is a barely attested king of the Heracleopolitan Ninth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, in the First Intermediate Period, known only from the damaged Turin King List.
Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt
The Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt, or Dynasty 17, was a line of Theban kings in the late Second Intermediate Period who fought the Hyksos and continued as the Eighteenth Dynasty.
Seventh Dynasty of Egypt
The Seventh Dynasty of Egypt (Dynasty 7) is a hypothetical dynasty of ancient Egyptian kings conventionally dated to about 2181 BC, known only from Manetho's tradition.
Sewadjkare
Sewadjkare was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty, known today solely from the Turin King List, with no inscriptions or scarabs; Ryholt places his reign around 1781 BC.
Sewadjkare Hori
Sewadjkare Hori was a pharaoh of Egypt's late Thirteenth Dynasty, known almost solely from the Turin King List, which records a 5-year reign dated about 1669–1664 BC.
Sewadjtu
Sewadjtu, fully Sankhenre Sewadjtu, was a poorly attested pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty, the 29th ruler of his dynasty per the Turin King List, reigning about 1675–1672 BC.
Sha-Amun-en-su
Sha-Amun-en-su was an Egyptian songstress of Amun at Thebes around 750 B.C., whose sealed coffin and mummy were destroyed in Brazil's 2018 National Museum fire.
Sha-Nabu-shu
Sha-Nabu-shu, also known as Ša-Nabû-šu, was a Neo-Assyrian chief eunuch who commanded troops for King Esarhaddon and is known from two oracle queries to the sun-god Šamaš.
Sha'ir Awtar
Sha'ir Awtar (Sha'irum Awtar, شعرم أوتر) was a king of Sabaʾ and dhū-Raydān in the early third century AD, known from inscriptions recording wars with Ḥaḍramawt.
Shabaka
Shabaka, also written Shabaqo or Shabako and known to the Greeks as Sabaco, was a Kushite king of Egypt's Twenty-fifth Dynasty who unified the Nile Valley.
Shabaka Stone
The Shabaka Stone is a black granite slab in the British Museum, set up in the Temple of Ptah at Memphis under pharaoh Shabaka, carrying the Memphite Theology.
Shabaka's conquest of Egypt
Shabaka's conquest of Egypt, around 712 BC, was Shabaka of Kush's defeat of the Saite king Bakenranef, ending the Twenty-Fourth Dynasty and establishing Kushite rule.
Shaduppum tablets
The Shaduppum tablets, also called the Tell Harmal tablets, are an Old Babylonian archive of about 3,000 cuneiform tablets excavated at Tell Harmal, ancient Shaduppum, east of Baghdad.
Shagarakti-Shuriash
Shagarakti-Shuriash (Šagarakti-Šuriaš) was the twenty-seventh Kassite king of Babylon, reigning c. 1245–1233 BC on the middle chronology, a generation before the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I captured his successor, Kaštiliašu IV.
Shagshag
Shagshag, also known as Šagšag or Sasa, was the wife of Urukagina, last ruler of Lagash, who headed a household of about 1,000 people at Girsu.
Shahr Hilal Yuhar'ish
Shahr Hilal Yuhar'ish was a king of Qataban in ancient South Arabia, present-day Yemen, who succeeded his father around 50 BC and made peace with Hadramawt, allying with it against Himyar.
Shahr Yagul
Shahr Yagul Yuhargib was a king of Qatabān in ancient South Arabia, in modern Yemen, known almost solely from an inscription naming him as the father of King Warawʾīl Ghaylān Yuhanʿim.
Shakkanakku
Shakkanakku, also written shakkanaku, is an Akkadian title meaning military governor, borne from about 2300 BCE and held by the rulers of Mari for nearly three centuries.
Shalim-ahum
Shalim-ahum, also known as Šalim-aḫum, was an early ruler of the city-state of Assur around 2000 BC, known from a single stone-block inscription recording a temple he built for the god Assur.
Shallum (king of Israel)
Shallum, son of Jabesh, was king of the northern kingdom of Israel for one month around 752 BC, having murdered King Zechariah before being killed by Menahem.
Shalmaneser I
Shalmaneser I (Akkadian Šulmānu-ašarēd I) was king of Assyria in the Middle Assyrian period, reigning 30 years, 1263–1234 BC; his annals record the defeat of Šattuara of Hanigalbat and the burning of 180 cities.
Shalmaneser I's reorganization of Hanigalbat
Shalmaneser I's reorganization of Hanigalbat was the defeat of the last independent Hurrian kingdom by the Assyrian king Shalmaneser I and its conversion into Assyrian provinces.
Shalmaneser II
Shalmaneser II (Šulmānu-ašarēd II) was king of Assyria from 1030 to 1019 BC, a poorly documented Middle Assyrian ruler known almost entirely from the Assyrian King List.
Shalmaneser III
Shalmaneser III, also known as Šulmānu-ašarēdu III, was king of Assyria from 858 to 824 BC, whose Black Obelisk depicts the submission of Jehu, king of Israel.
Shalmaneser III's Babylonian campaign
Shalmaneser III's Babylonian campaign was an Assyrian intervention in 851 and 850 BC that aided King Marduk-zākir-šumi of Babylon against his rebellious brother Marduk-bēl-usāti, who was killed.
Shalmaneser III's campaign against Damascus
Shalmaneser III's campaign against Damascus was an Assyrian invasion of Aram-Damascus in 841 BC, in which Shalmaneser defeated Hazael but could not take the city.
Shalmaneser III's campaigns against Damascus
Shalmaneser III's campaigns against Damascus were Assyrian offensives fought between 853 and 838 BC, first against Hadadezer and then Hazael, ending with Damascus weakened but never conquered.
Shalmaneser III's campaigns against Que
Shalmaneser III's campaigns against Que, also known as his campaigns in Cilicia, were Assyrian military expeditions against Que, the Cilician plain around Adana, in 858 and 839-831 BC.