edgepedia

Ancient Near East, Egypt, Nubia, and the Punic world

5,147 articles

Tempest Stele

The Tempest Stele, also written Tempest Stela, is a calcite stela of pharaoh Ahmose I recording a catastrophic storm, found in fragments at Karnak, Thebes.

Temple Warning inscription

The Temple Warning inscription is a Greek stone notice barring foreigners from the inner courts of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, on pain of death.

Temti-agun

Temti-Agun, rendered Zemt-Akone in Linear Elamite, was a ruler of Elam around 2000 BC, attested on silver gunagi vessels and cuneiform texts; scholars debate whether the name covers one ruler or two.

Ten Year Annals of Mursili II

The Ten Year Annals are a Hittite text written in King Mursili II's voice recounting the campaigns of the first ten years of his reign.

Tennes (king of Sidon)

Tennes (Greek Τέννης) was king of Sidon under Achaemenid Persian rule, reigning 351–347 BC; he led Phoenicia's revolt against Artaxerxes III and was executed after Sidon fell.

Tentamun (18th Dynasty)

Tentamun was a princess of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, a daughter of the pharaoh Thutmose IV, known only from canopic jars found in his tomb KV43.

Tentamun (21st Dynasty)

Tentamun was a royal woman of ancient Egypt's early 21st Dynasty, presumed wife of Smendes, first king of the Tanite line, around 1069 BC, known chiefly from the Report of Wenamun.

Tenth Dynasty of Egypt

The Tenth Dynasty of Egypt, also called Dynasty 10, was a royal house based at Heracleopolis during the First Intermediate Period, rivaling the Theban Eleventh Dynasty until Mentuhotep II reunified Egypt.

Tentkheta

Tentkheta, also read Takheta, was a royal wife of Amasis II, penultimate pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty, whose titulary includes the rare title directress of the butchers of the Acacia House.

Teos of Egypt

Teos, also called Takhos, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 30th Dynasty whose anti-Persian expedition collapsed in 360 BC; overthrown by his own family, he died an exile in Persia.

Tepti-ahar

Tepti-ahar, also written Tepti-Ahar or Tepti Ahar, was a king of Elam of the Kidinuid dynasty around 1400 BC, known from excavations at Haft Tappeh, ancient Kabnak.

Teqerideamani I

Teqerideamani I was a king of Kush in the 2nd century AD, assigned the dates AD 90 to 114 and buried in pyramid Beg.N 28 at Meroe.

Teresh

The Teresh, also known as the Tursha, were one of the Sea Peoples, warriors named in Merneptah's records of the coalition that attacked Egypt from the west in the late 13th century BC.

Teriteqas

Teriteqas was a king of Kush, centered on Meroë in Sudan, who ruled in the late first century BC and died during Rome's 25 BC invasion.

Testament of Hattusili I

The Testament of Hattusili I, also called the Political Testament of Hattusili I, is a bilingual Akkadian–Hittite proclamation in which the ailing king names his grandson Mursili I as successor.

Teti

Teti, also known as Othoes, was the first pharaoh of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, reigning from about 2345 to 2333 BC and buried in a pyramid at Saqqara.

Teti (son of Pepi)

Teti, son of Pepi, was an ancient Egyptian king's son attested in rock inscriptions at Arminna East as serving under Pharaoh Kamose during the wars against Kush.

Teti (vizier)

Teti was a vizier of ancient Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, serving King Pepi II late in his reign and known from a false door at South Saqqara.

Teti, son of Minhotep

Teti, son of Minhotep, held a temple office at Coptos in Upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, dismissed by the Theban king Nubkheperre Intef in Year 3.

Tetiankhkem

Tetiankhkem was a royal prince of ancient Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, a son of the pharaoh Teti and the queen Khuit, known only from a mastaba at Saqqara.

Tetisheri

Tetisheri, also rendered Teta-shera, was a queen of the Theban 17th Dynasty in sixteenth-century BCE Egypt, mother of Seqenenre Tao and grandmother of Ahmose I.

Tetramnestos

Tetramnestos, son of Anysos, is the leading Sidonian Herodotus names in Xerxes' fleet of 480 BC; some scholars identify him as the king of Sidon at Salamis.

Tette

Tette, also rendered Titti, was a 14th-century BC king of Nuḫašše in inland Syria, installed as a Hittite vassal by Šuppiluliuma I and later deposed.

Teumman

Te'umman was a Neo-Elamite king of the Hubanid dynasty who ruled Elam from 664 to 653 BC and died in battle against Ashurbanipal of Assyria.

Tey

Tey, also written Tiy or Tiye, was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Ay, who ruled for about four years after Tutankhamun's death around 1323 BC.

Tha'ran Ya'ub Yuhan'im

Tha'ran Ya'ub Yuhan'im (ثارن يعب يهنعم) was a king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydan in the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries AD, known from his silver coinage.

Tha'ran Yuhanim

Tha'ran Yuhanim (Arabic ثأران يهنعم) was a fourth-century king of the Himyarite dynasty of ancient South Arabia, reigning first as co-regent with his father Dhamar'ali Yuhabirr and then alone.

Thaïs

Thaïs (Θαΐς) was a celebrated Athenian hetaira who accompanied Alexander the Great and later partnered Ptolemy I, known for the Persepolis fire story of 330 BC and her three children.

Thamthis

Thamthis, also spelled Tamphthis, is a putative last king of Egypt's 4th Dynasty, placed after Shepseskaf and before Userkaf; no contemporary inscription names him, and his existence is disputed.

Tharros Punic inscriptions

The Tharros Punic inscriptions are the carved stone steles of the tophet at Tharros, a Phoenician and Punic city on the Sinis Peninsula in western Sardinia.