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Tanedjemet
Tanedjemet was a New Kingdom royal woman with the titles King's Daughter and King's Wife, known only from tomb QV 33 in the Valley of the Queens at Thebes.
Tantamani
Tantamani, also known as Tanwetamani or Tementhes, was the last pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and a king of Kush who reigned from 664 BC and briefly tried to recover Egypt from Assyria.
Tantamani's campaign into Egypt
Tantamani's campaign into Egypt was a 664 BC military expedition in which the Kushite king Tanutamani marched north from Nubia to Memphis, killing Necho I of Sais.
Tanyidamani
Tanyidamani, also spelled Taneydamani, was a king of Kush during the Meroitic Period in the 2nd century BC, known from a victory stele, a votive plaque, and a statue inscription.
Tapah Gutwand
Tapah Gutwand (Gutwand/Gūtwand) is a Pleiades gazetteer record for the findspot of an ancient brick with an Elamite inscription, at Gotvand, Khuzestan, Iran; the four-line cuneiform text is attributed to Untash-Gal and dedicated to the temple of Chogha.
Tapputi
Tapputi, full name Tappūtī-Bēlet-ekallim, was a female perfume-maker in Middle Assyria around 1230 BCE, often cited as the earliest named chemist or perfumer on record.
Taram-Uram
Taram-Uram was a royal woman of the Third Dynasty of Ur, a wife of King Shulgi and daughter of Apil-kin, king of Mari, known from a single inscription found at Nippur.
Tarekeniwal
Tarekeniwal is the name attached to pyramid Beg. N 19, a royal pyramid in the North Cemetery at Meroë; his reign dates remain hypothetical, since Meroitic chronology rests on tomb sequences.
Tarhulara
Tarḫulara of Gurgum was a Neo-Hittite king whose capital, Marqasi, stood at modern Kahramanmaraş in Turkey; he paid tribute to Assyria before being murdered by his son.
Tarhunazi
Tarhunazi, also rendered Tarhunazas, was the last independent king of Melid, a Syro-Hittite kingdom at Arslantepe near Malatya, installed by Sargon II and deposed in 712 BC.
Tarhuntaradu
Tarhuntaradu, also written Tarhundaradu or Tarkhundaradu, was a king of Arzawa in western Anatolia, known from two Amarna letters exchanged with pharaoh Amenhotep III in the 14th century BC.
Tariff of Marseille
The Tariff of Marseille, or sacrificial tariff of Marseille, is a Punic inscription listing priestly sacrifice fees, carved at Carthage and found in Marseille in 1845.
Tarkasnawa
Tarkasnawa was a king of Mira in western Anatolia in the late 13th century BC, a Hittite vassal known from the Karabel rock relief near Izmir and a bilingual silver seal.
Tarkhan dress
The Tarkhan dress is a tailored linen garment excavated at Tarkhan, Egypt, in 1912–1913, radiocarbon dated to 3482–3102 BC and held in the Petrie Museum, London.
Tartessian language
Tartessian is the still-unclassified language of roughly 70 to 100 Iron Age inscriptions, mostly funerary stelae, from southern Portugal and nearby Spain, dating from about the 8th to 5th century BC.
Tashedkhonsu
Tashedkhonsu, also written Tashedkhons, was a royal woman of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty, recorded as a consort of Osorkon I and mother of his successor Takelot I.
Tashmetu-sharrat
Tašmētu-šarrat, also written Tašmetum-šarrat, was an Assyrian queen, the wife of King Sennacherib (r. 704–681 BC), whose name means "Tašmetu is queen"; a unique palace inscription at Nineveh calls her his beloved wife.
Tasian culture
The Tasian culture is a disputed Predynastic cultural phase in Middle Egypt, proposed by Guy Brunton as earlier than the Badarian and known from about 50 burials.
Tata (king of Awan)
Tata was an early king of Awan in ancient western Iran, known only as the second of twelve kings named on a cuneiform king list found at Susa.
Tati (queen)
Tati was an ancient Egyptian queen consort of the Second Intermediate Period, the only queen attested in the 14th and 15th Dynasty seal corpus, likely wife of Sheshi.
Tattenai
Tattenai (Tatnai) was the Persian governor of Beyond the River under Darius I, who inquired into the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple around 520 BC.
Tawagalawa letter
The Tawagalawa letter (CTH 181) is a mid-13th-century BC Hittite diplomatic letter, probably from Hattusili III to the king of Ahhiyawa, seeking action against the renegade Piyamaradu.
Tawananna (Babahi)
Tawananna was a Babylonian princess, daughter of Kassite ruler Burna-Buriaš II, who married the Hittite king Suppiluliuma I and was later banished by her stepson Mursili II.
Tawananna (Hittite office)
The Tawananna, also written Tawannanna, was the title of the Hittite chief priestess, held by the queen alongside the king from about the 17th century BC.
Tawerettenru
Tawerettenru was a royal woman of ancient Egypt, thought to be a wife of Ramesses V, known only from her estate in the Wilbour Papyrus.
Tay (treasurer)
Tay, also written Ty, was an 18th Dynasty Egyptian royal treasurer, or overseer of the seal, under Hatshepsut and Thutmose III; his tomb was found at Thebes in 2021.
Taylor Prism
The Taylor Prism, also known as the Sennacherib Prism, is a hexagonal fired-clay prism in the British Museum inscribed with the annals of King Sennacherib, written in 691 BC.
Tayma inscriptions
The Tayma inscriptions, also called the Teima inscriptions, are a corpus of 131 texts carved at the oasis of Tayma in northwest Saudi Arabia, mostly in Aramaic.
Tayma Stele of Nabonidus
The Tayma Stele of Nabonidus is a fragmentary stone monument of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, discovered at the oasis of Tayma in Arabia in 2004 and inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform.
Te'elhunu
Te'elhunu, also written Te'el-hunu, was a queen of the Arabs who fought the Assyrian king Sennacherib around 690 BC and was captured and carried off to Assyria with the gods of the Arabs.