5,147 articles
Spendius
Spendius (Greek: Spendios) was a Campanian runaway slave who, with the Libyan Mathos, led the mercenary revolt against Carthage after the First Punic War and was crucified by Hamilcar Barca.
Sphinx water erosion hypothesis
Sphinx water erosion hypothesis: Robert Schoch and John Anthony West's claim that rainfall runoff, not wind, weathered the Giza Sphinx enclosure, implying a date far older than the conventional Khafre attribution around 2500 BCE.
Standard of Ur
The Standard of Ur, or Royal Standard of Ur, is a mosaic-inlaid wooden box excavated by Leonard Woolley at Ur in the 1920s, now in the British Museum.
Standing Figure of Nefertiti
The Standing Figure of Nefertiti is a painted limestone statuette of Queen Nefertiti, dated 1351–1334 BC, excavated at Tell el-Amarna in 1912–1913 and held in Berlin.
State Archives of Assyria
The State Archives of Assyria is a Helsinki series, running 1987 to 2024, of critical editions of Neo-Assyrian cuneiform texts, chiefly from Nineveh's royal archives.
State communications in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
State communications in the Neo-Assyrian Empire was the royal relay system of letters and messengers linking the king to his governors and commanders, evidenced by about 3,000 surviving letters.
Statue of Amenemhat III (Berlin)
The Statue of Amenemhat III (Berlin) is an over-lifesize granodiorite praying figure of the Twelfth Dynasty king, carved around 1850 BC, found in the Ptah temple of Memphis.
Statue of Ashurnasirpal II
The Statue of Ashurnasirpal II is a rare freestanding magnesite statue of the Neo-Assyrian king (r. 883–859 BC), found at Nimrud and now in the British Museum.
Statue of Djoser
The Statue of Djoser is a painted limestone statue of the Third Dynasty king Djoser, found at Saqqara in 1924 and the oldest known life-size Egyptian statue.
Statue of Ebih-Il
The Statue of Ebih-Il is a seated votive gypsum figure of Ebih-Il, a superintendent of Mari, made around 2400 BC and now in the Louvre.
Statue of Horemheb and Amenia
The Statue of Horemheb and Amenia is an unfinished limestone double statue of the Egyptian general and later pharaoh Horemheb with his wife, made for his Saqqara tomb.
Statue of Idrimi
The Statue of Idrimi is an inscribed magnesite statue of King Idrimi of Alalakh in southern Turkey, bearing a 104-line Akkadian autobiography and held in the British Museum.
Statue of Karomama, the Divine Adoratrice of Amun
The Statue of Karomama is a bronze statue of the Egyptian priestess Karomama Meritmut, Divine Adoratrice of Amun, made around 850 BC and held in the Louvre.
Statue of Padiiset
The Statue of Padiiset, also called Padiiset's Statue, is a reused Egyptian statuette in the Walters Art Museum, re-inscribed around 900–850 BCE for Pa-di-iset, an envoy to Canaan.
Statue of Seneb
The Statue of Seneb is a painted limestone Old Kingdom sculpture of the dwarf official Seneb with his wife and children, found at Giza and kept in Cairo.
Statue of Sobekneferu
The Statue of Sobekneferu (Neferusobek) comprises surviving fragments depicting Sobekneferu, the female king who closed Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty around 1800 BC, including a headless Louvre statue and a Berlin bust destroyed in World War II.
Statuette of Neferefre
The statuette of Neferefre is a seated limestone statue of the Fifth Dynasty king Raneferef, found broken in his mortuary temple at Abusir and now in Cairo.
Statuette of the lady Tiye
The statuette of the lady Tiye is a painted wooden Egyptian statuette of a non-royal woman, made in Dynasty 18 and held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Stela of Amanineteyerike
The Stela of Amanineteyerike, known as the Great Inscription (Kawa IX), is a hieroglyphic stela at Kawa, Sudan, recording the fifth-century BC Kushite king's accession.
Stela of Anlamani
The Stela of Anlamani, also called the Anlamani stela from Kawa, is an Egyptian hieroglyphic stela of the Kushite king Anlamani, found at the temple town of Kawa in Sudan.
Stela of Ashurnasirpal II
The Stela of Ashurnasirpal II is a four-ton gypsum monument of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BC), erected outside the Temple of Ninurta at his capital Kalhu, modern Nimrud, Iraq.
Stela of Aspelta
The Stela of Aspelta, or Election Stela of Aspelta, is a granite stela from Gebel Barkal recording how the oracle of Amen-Ra chose Aspelta as Kush's king.
Stela of Ikhernofret
The Stela of Ikhernofret, also known as the Ikhernofret Stela, is a Middle Kingdom limestone stela recording treasurer Ikhernofret's part in the Osiris mysteries at Abydos under Senusret III.
Stela of Irtisen
The Stela of Irtisen is a limestone funerary stela of the sculptor Irtysen, made at Abydos around 2000 BC and held in the Louvre since 1838.
Stela of Neskhons
The Stela of Neskhons is a painted wooden funerary stela, made around 965 BC for Neskhons, a principal wife of the High Priest of Amun Pinedjem II at Thebes.
Stela of Pasenhor
The Stela of Pasenhor is a limestone Apis-bull stela from the Serapeum at Saqqara, dedicated by the Memphite priest Pasenhor in year 37 of Shoshenq V.
Stela of Piye
The Stela of Piye, or Victory Stela of Piye, is a granite stela from Gebel Barkal recording the Kushite king Piye's Egyptian campaign, c. 725 BC.
Stela of Sebek-khu
The Stela of Sebek-khu, or Sobek-khu Stele, is a Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian limestone stela found at Abydos in 1901 and held in the Manchester Museum.
Stela of Sehetepibre
The Stela of Sehetepibre is an Egyptian stela from Abydos, dated to the reign of Amenemhat III around 1825 BC and now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Stela of Shamshi-Adad V
The Stela of Shamshi-Adad V is a limestone Neo-Assyrian royal stela of king Shamshi-Adad V, found at Nimrud, Iraq, and kept in the British Museum.