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Stela of Somtutefnakht
The Stela of Somtutefnakht (Sematawytefnakht) is a hieroglyphic inscription of a Herakleopolitan priest, preserved in Naples, whose career spanned Egyptian kings, Persian rule after 343 BC, and Alexander's conquest.
Stela of Taneyidamani
The Stela of Taneyidamani is a granite-gneiss victory stela of the Kushite king Taneyidamani, found at Jebel Barkal, Sudan, and held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Stelae of Darius I at the Suez canal
The Stelae of Darius I at the Suez canal are at least four granite stelae erected along the Nile–Red Sea canal under Darius I around 515–495 BC.
Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu
The Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu, also known as the Stele of Ankh-af-na-Khonsu, is a painted wooden offering stele of a Theban priest of Montu, dated to circa 680/70 BCE.
Stele of Meli-Šipak
The Stele of Meli-Šipak is a fragmentary stone kudurru of the Kassite king Meli-Šipak (1186–1172 BC), carried to Susa and re-inscribed by Šutruk-Naḫḫunte I; it is held in the Louvre.
Stele of Nastasen
The Stele of Nastasen is a granite triumphal inscription of King Nastasen of Kush, carved in Egyptian hieroglyphs in the late 4th century BC and now kept in Berlin.
Stele of Ördek-Burnu
The Stele of Ördek-Burnu is a basalt mortuary stele of the Iron Age kingdom of Sam'al, found in 1888 near Zincirli in southern Turkey and now held in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums.
Stele of Ushumgal
The Stele of Ushumgal is a small gypsum alabaster monument from Early Dynastic Sumer, carved on four sides with one of the earliest known Sumerian land records.
Storming of the Byrsa
The Storming of the Byrsa was the Roman assault under Scipio Aemilianus on Carthage's citadel hill in the spring of 146 BC, ending the Third Punic War and preceding the city's destruction.
Story of Sinuhe
The Story of Sinuhe, also known as the Tale of Sinuhe, is an Egyptian narrative of exile and return from the Middle Kingdom, composed around 1900 BC.
Strategos of the nome
The strategos of the nome (Greek: strategos) was the military and civil governor of a nome in Ptolemaic Egypt, attested in papyri from the 3rd century BC.
Stratonice of Libya
Stratonice was a mistress of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the second ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, known only from an ancient list and a mausoleum at Eleusis near Alexandria.
Striding Lion
Striding Lion is a molded glazed-brick relief of a striding lion that lined Babylon's Processional Way, made under Nebuchadnezzar II in the 6th century BC.
Substitute king ritual
The substitute king ritual, called šar pūḫi, was a Neo-Assyrian rite in which a proxy was enthroned and killed to take an omen-predicted death in the king's place.
Südburg inscription
The Südburg inscription is a six-line Hieroglyphic Luwian royal text carved in a chamber at Boğazköy-Ḫattuša, attributed to King Šuppiluliuma, probably Šuppiluliuma II, in the late 13th century BC.
Suemniut
Suemniut, also written Suemnut, was a royal cup-bearer or steward of Egypt's 18th Dynasty under Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, known for his Theban tomb TT 92.
Suffete
The suffete (plural shophetim, Latinized sufes) was one of two annually elected chief magistrates of Carthage, presiding over the senate, judging cases, and occasionally leading armies.
Suhi II
Suhi II was a ruler of the Iron Age city of Karkemish on the Euphrates around 950 BC, best known as the builder of the Long Wall of Sculpture.
Suhis I
Suhis I, also known as Suhi I, was an early 10th-century BC ruler of Carchemish, in north Syria, who served Great King Ura-Tarhunza as his kinsman.
Suhis inscription
The Suhis inscription is a Hieroglyphic Luwian royal building text carved on the Long Wall of Sculpture at Carchemish by Suhi II, who ruled the city around 950 BC.
Suhlamu
Suhlamu, also Sahlamu, is the fourth of seventeen early Assyrian kings named in the Assyrian King List, known only from that document, with no contemporary inscriptions recording him.
Sukkal of Elam and Shimashki
The sukkal of Elam and Shimashki was a delegated high office of the Sukkalmah state of Elam, held by the ruler's children who governed the eastern provinces.
Sukkal of Susa
The sukkal of Susa was a delegated vice-regal office of Sukkalmah Elam, governing Susiana around the capital Susa in southwestern Iran during the early second millennium BC.
Sukkalmah dynasty
The Sukkalmah dynasty, also called the Epartid dynasty, ruled Elam and Anshan from about 1970 to 1600 BCE, when Elam became a major powerbroker across Western Asia.
Sultanhani inscription
The Sultanhani inscription is a Hieroglyphic Luwian text on a stone base and stele found near Sultanhanı in Kayseri province, Turkey, dedicated to the god Tarhunza by Sarwatiwara, a vassal of King Wasusarma of Tabal.
Sultantepe tablets
The Sultantepe tablets, also known as the Sultantepe archive, are about 400 Neo-Assyrian clay tablets found at Sultantepe between Urfa and Harran, excavated in 1951 and 1952.
Sulumal
Sulumal was king of Melid, a Neo-Hittite kingdom on the Malatya Plain in eastern Anatolia, known from the tribute lists of Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria in the mid-eighth century BC.
Sumer
Sumer (Akkadian šumeru; native eme-gi7) was the earliest recognized civilization, in southern Mesopotamia (Biblical Shinar), home of cuneiform writing, Uruk, Ur, city-states, sexagesimal math, and irrigation-based urban life from c. 5500 BCE.
Sumer–Elam war
The Sumer–Elam war was an Early Dynastic raid by Enmebaragesi of Kish against Elam around 2700 BC, plundering Elam's weapons in the first war in recorded history.
Sumerian disputations
Sumerian disputations, also called Sumerian debates, are eight Sumerian poems in which non-human entities such as seasons, animals, and tools argue over which is superior.