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Shasu
The Shasu were semi-nomadic pastoralists of the Sinai, Negev, and Transjordan whom Egyptian texts from Thutmosis III to Ramesses III record; some lists mention Yhw, linked to Yahweh.
Shattiwaza
Šattiwaza, also written Mattiwaza or Kurtiwaza, was a king of Mitanni around 1330–1305 BC, installed by the Hittite king Šuppiluliuma I as vassal ruler of Hanigalbat.
Shattiwaza treaty
The Shattiwaza treaty, or Treaty of Suppiluliuma I and Shattiwaza, is a pair of Hittite documents from Hattusa ratifying Mittani's subjugation in the 14th century BCE.
Shattuara I
Shattuara I (Šattuara) was a king of Hanigalbat, the Hurrian kingdom that succeeded Mitanni, reigning c. 1305–1285 BC. He rebelled against Assyria's Adad-nirari I, was captured, and was released to rule as a tribute-paying vassal.
Shattuara II
Shattuara II, also written Šattuara II, was the last known king of the Hurrian kingdom of Hanigalbat, or Mitanni, defeated by Assyria's Shalmaneser I in the mid-13th century BC.
Shaushgamuwa
Shaushgamuwa, also spelled Saušgamuwa, was king of Amurru, a Hittite vassal kingdom in Syria, in the late 13th century BC under the Hittite great king Tudhaliya IV.
Shaushtatar
Šauštatar, also written Sauštatar, was a king of Mitanni who flourished in the fifteenth century BC and is remembered for reducing Assyria and carrying the doors of Assur's temple to Waššukanni.
Sheba
Sheba (Saba, Sabaʾ) was an ancient incense-trading kingdom of southern Arabia in modern Yemen, capital Marib, flourishing 8th century BCE to 275 CE, famed for the Queen of Sheba, the Great Dam of Marib, and UNESCO-listed ruins.
Sheba son of Bichri
Sheba son of Bichri, also known as Sheba ben Bichri, is a Benjaminite in 2 Samuel 20 who led a revolt against King David after Absalom's rebellion.
Shebitku
Shebitku, also rendered Shabataka or Shebitqo, was a king of Egypt's Kushite Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, reigning roughly 707/702 to 690 BC and fighting Sennacherib in 701 BC.
Shebna
Shebna, also Shebnayahu, was the royal steward of Judah under King Hezekiah in the late eighth century BC, whom Isaiah condemned and foretold would be replaced by Eliakim.
Shedsunefertum (High Priest of Ptah)
Shedsunefertum, also written Shedsunefertem, was High Priest of Ptah at Memphis in the early 22nd Dynasty, a contemporary of Shoshenq I who succeeded his father Ankhefensekhmet.
Shekelesh
The Shekelesh, also rendered Sikala, were one of the Sea Peoples, named in Egyptian records under Merneptah and Ramesses III in the late 13th and 12th centuries BC.
Shema (servant of Jeroboam)
Shema was an official of the kingdom of Israel known only from his jasper seal, excavated at Megiddo in 1904 and inscribed "Belonging to Shema, servant of Jeroboam".
Shemay
Shemay was a vizier of Egypt at the end of the 8th Dynasty, based at Coptos, known from royal decrees of king Neferkauhor; his son Idy succeeded him.
Sheneh (pharaoh)
Sheneh was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, a Delta king known only from king lists, with no monuments or inscriptions of his own.
Shenshek
Shenshek is a poorly attested king of Egypt's 14th Dynasty, a line of rulers of the Second Intermediate Period who governed part of the Nile Delta.
Shep-en-hor
Shep-en-hor, also written Shepenhor, was an ancient Egyptian woman who died around 600 BC; her inscribed coffin and mummy are held in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.
Shep-en-Isis
Shep-en-Isis (Schepenese) was a woman of a Theban priestly family who lived around 650 to 610 BC; her mummy has been in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen since 1820.
Shepenwepet I
Shepenwepet I, also written Shepenupet I, was God's Wife of Amun at Thebes in the mid-8th century BC, a daughter of King Osorkon III of the Theban Twenty-third Dynasty.
Shepenwepet II
Shepenwepet II, also written Shepenupet II, was God's Wife of Amun at Thebes, a daughter of the Kushite king Piye, from about 700 to 639 BC.
Shepseskaf
Shepseskaf was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, the last king of the line that built the Giza pyramids, and the son and successor of Menkaure.
Shepseskaf-ankh
Shepseskaf-ankh was an official of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, chief of the physicians of Upper and Lower Egypt and a priest of Re, known from his mastaba tomb AS 39 at Abusir South.
Shepseskare
Shepseskare, also written Shepseskara, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty during the Old Kingdom, known almost entirely from seal impressions and later king lists.
Sherden
The Sherden (Šardana) were Late Bronze Age warriors, first recorded in the fourteenth century BC, who fought Egypt and then served as elite troops in its army.
Sheretnebty
Sheretnebty, also known as Sheret-Nebti, was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian princess, probably a daughter of King Niuserre, known from her rock-cut tomb at Abusir South, excavated in 2012 and 2013.
Shesepankhenamen Setepenre
Shesepankhenamen Setepenre is the throne name of a king of Kush during the Meroitic period, placed by most scholars near Arakamani's era; his personal name is unknown.
Sheshbazzar
Sheshbazzar was a Judean leader of the early Persian period, appointed governor by Cyrus, who led the first returnees from the Babylonian Exile around 538 BC.
Sheshi
Sheshi, also spelled Sheshy and with the throne name Maaibre, was a king of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, dated by Kim Ryholt to 1745–1705 BC.
Sheshonq I's campaign to Palestine
Sheshonq I's campaign to Palestine, also known as Shishak's campaign, was an Egyptian military expedition into Judah and Israel around 925 BCE, recorded at Karnak and in the Bible.