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Sipti-Baal
Sipti-Baal, also rendered Shipṭi-Baʿlu, was a Canaanite ruler of the mid-14th century BC known from the Amarna letters, where he denied conspiring against the pharaoh.
Sirukduh
Sirukduh, also spelled Siruk-tuh, was a sukkalmah of Elam in the early 18th century BC, when Elam acted as powerbroker among Assyria, Babylonia, Eshnunna, and Mari.
Sit-Shamshi bronze
The Sit-Shamshi bronze is a 12th-century BC Elamite bronze model of a sunrise ritual, made for King Šilhak-Inšušinak I and found at Susa, now in the Louvre.
Sitamun
Sitamun, also Sitamen or Satamun, was an Egyptian princess and queen consort of the 18th Dynasty, eldest daughter of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye who became his Great Royal Wife.
Sitdjehuti
Sitdjehuti, also written Satdjehuty, was a princess and queen of Egypt's Theban 17th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, a sister-wife of Seqenenre Tao known almost entirely from her funerary equipment.
Sithathor
Sithathor, also printed Sit Hathor, was an ancient Egyptian princess of the 12th Dynasty, probably a daughter of King Senusret II, known from jewelry found at Dahshur in 1894.
Sithathoriunet
Sithathoriunet, also written Sithathoryunet, was a princess of Egypt's 12th Dynasty, known from jewelry buried in her shaft tomb beside the pyramid of Senwosret II at Lahun.
Sitre
Sitre was an Egyptian queen of the early 19th Dynasty, wife of Ramesses I and mother of Seti I, buried in tomb QV38 in the Valley of the Queens.
Siwe-palar-huppak
Siwe-palar-huppak, also written Siwe-palar-huhpak, was a sukkalmah, or grand regent, of Elam in the early 2nd millennium BC, a contemporary of Hammurabi who ruled over Mesopotamia for two years.
Siwe-Palar-Khuppak
Siwe-Palar-Khuppak, also spelled Siwe-palar-huppak, was a grand regent (sukkalmah) of Elam who briefly ruled Mesopotamia before an alliance led by Hammurabi of Babylon ended Elamite power in the west.
Sixth Dynasty of Egypt
The Sixth Dynasty of Egypt was the last dynasty of the Old Kingdom, a line of Memphite kings who ruled roughly 180 years, from Teti to Pepi II.
Slavery in ancient Egypt
Slavery in ancient Egypt: coerced labor from the Old Kingdom (c. 2686 BCE) to the Ptolemaic period (30 BCE), also called bound labor and corvée. Mostly small-scale and domestic until Hellenistic times; prisoners of war were the main source; pyramids were built by corvée workers, not slaves.
Smendes
Smendes, Egyptian Nesbanebdjed, was the founder and first king of Egypt's Twenty-first Dynasty and first ruler of the Third Intermediate Period, reigning from Tanis about 1070–1044 BC after Ramesses XI.
Smendes II
Smendes II, also known as Nesbanebdjed II, was a High Priest of Amun at Thebes in Egypt's 21st Dynasty, the seventh pontiff, serving briefly around 997–993 BC.
Smendes III
Smendes III, Egyptian Nisu-Ba-Neb-Djedet, was a High Priest of Amun at Thebes during the 22nd Dynasty, a son of Pharaoh Osorkon I who held the office around 884–874 BC.
Smenkhkare
Smenkhkare (Semenkhkare), late Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh of the Amarna Period with throne name Ankhkheperure, husband of Meritaten. Debates cover one versus two rulers with Neferneferuaten, a possible co-regency with Akhenaten, and the disputed KV55 burial.
Snaaib
Snaaib, or Menkhaure Snaaib, is an Egyptian king of the late Second Intermediate Period (c. 17th century BC) known only from a stela found at Abydos.
Sneferka
Sneferka, also read Seneferka, is an obscure Early Dynastic Egyptian ruler known only from serekh inscriptions on stone vessels, conventionally placed at the end of the First Dynasty near King Qa'a.
Sneferu
Sneferu (Snefru), first king of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, built three pyramids at Meidum and Dahshur, including the first true smooth-sided pyramid, the Red Pyramid, and reigned about 30 years.
Sneferu's Nubian campaign
Sneferu's Nubian campaign was an Egyptian invasion of Lower Nubia in Sneferu's twelfth regnal year, recorded on the Palermo Stone as bringing 7,000 captives and 200,000 livestock.
Sneferukhaf
Sneferukhaf, also written Snefrukhaf, was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, son of Nefermaat and grandson of Nefertkaw, buried in mastaba G 7070 at Giza.
Sobek
Sobek (Sebek, Suchos), the crocodile god of ancient Egypt, worshipped from Narmer's reign to Roman times; cult centers at Kom Ombo and the Fayum; merged with Re as Sobek-Re and with Horus under Dynasty 12.
Sobekemhat
Sobekemhat, also written Sobkemhet, was a high official of Egypt's 12th Dynasty, buried in a mastaba beside King Senwosret III's pyramid at Dahshur around the 19th century BC.
Sobekemsaf (13th Dynasty official)
Sobekemsaf was an official of Egypt's 13th Dynasty, around 1700 BC, who governed Thebes and is attested by four monuments, above all a statue in Vienna.
Sobekemsaf (queen)
Sobekemsaf was a queen of the late Second Intermediate Period at Thebes, wife of King Nubkheperre Intef and, on one account, daughter of a prince of Edfu.
Sobekemsaf I
Sobekemsaf I, whose throne name was Sekhemre-Wadjkhau, was a king of Egypt's Theban 17th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, when Thebes coexisted with the Hyksos.
Sobekemsaf II
Sobekemsaf II (Sobkemsaf II), throne name Sekhemre Shedtawy, was a Theban king of the late Second Intermediate Period, conventionally of the Seventeenth Dynasty, placed between Nubkheperre Intef and Ahmose Senakhtenre.
Sobekhotep (mayor of the Faiyum)
Sobekhotep was an ancient Egyptian official bearing the honorific rank of Great Mayor of the Faiyum, an oasis region whose cult centered on the crocodile god Sobek.
Sobekhotep (New Kingdom treasurer)
Sobekhotep was an Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian treasurer, overseer of the seal under Thutmose IV, known from his Theban tomb TT63 and British Museum painting fragments.
Sobekhotep (treasurer)
Sobekhotep was a royal treasurer of Twelfth Dynasty Egypt who served under Senusret I, known from a Hatnub stela dated to Year 22 of his reign.