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Aristomenes of Alyzia
Aristomenes of Alyzia, also known as Aristomenes of Alyzeia, was an Acarnanian Greek who served as regent of Ptolemaic Egypt for the child king Ptolemy V.
Ariston (explorer)
Ariston (Ἀρίστων) was a Greek explorer dispatched by Ptolemy II Philadelphos to investigate the Arabian coast, remembered for an altar to Poseidon Pelagios at Poseideion.
Ariston of Tyre
Ariston of Tyre, a Tyrian also called Aristo, was an agent sent by Hannibal in 193 BCE to carry secret verbal instructions to Hannibal's friends in Carthage.
Aristonicus (eunuch)
Aristonicus was a eunuch of Ptolemy V of Egypt, raised with the king, who commanded the cavalry against the Egyptian revolt in the Delta in 185/4 BC.
Armah
Armah, also known as Ashama ibn Abjar, was a king of the Kingdom of Aksum in the early 7th century AD, remembered as its last coin-issuing ruler.
Armant Stela
The Armant Stela is a rose-granite stela of pharaoh Thutmose III erected in the temple of Montu at Armant, found in 1936-1937 and now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Arnekhamani
Arnekhamani, also spelled Arnakhamani, was a king of Kush who reigned about 235 to 218 BC and built the Lion Temple at Musawwarat es-Sufra, dedicated to the lion-headed god Apedemak.
Arnuwanda I
Arnuwanda I, also written Arnuwandas I, was a Hittite Great King of the late 15th century BC, married to Queen Ašmu-nikal and known for his edicts and frontier treaties.
Arnuwanda II
Arnuwanda II, also written Arnuwandas II, was a Hittite king of the New Kingdom, eldest son and successor of Šuppiluliuma I, who reigned c. 1322–1321 BC.
Arnuwanda III
Arnuwanda III was a king of the Hittite Empire who ruled briefly around 1209–1207 BC, near the empire's end, and was succeeded by his brother Šuppiluliuma II.
Arqamani
Arqamani, also rendered Ergamenes, was a king of Kush who ruled from Meroe in the third century BC and is the only Meroitic king named in classical literature.
Arrukum
Arrukum was a great vizier of the Syrian city-state of Ebla, head of its administration under king Irkab-damu in the second quarter of the 24th century BC.
Arsames
Arsames (Aršāma) was a member of the early Achaemenid royal line, named at Behistun as the grandfather of Darius I; whether he reigned is disputed.
Arsinoe I
Arsinoe I, also Arsinoë I, was a Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, daughter of Lysimachus of Thrace and first wife of Ptolemy II, exiled to Coptos in the 270s BC.
Arsinoe II
Arsinoe II, also known as Arsinoë II Philadelphus, was a Ptolemaic queen who married her brother Ptolemy II and was later worshipped as a goddess.
Arsinoe III
Arsinoe III (Arsinoë III) was a Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, wife of her brother Ptolemy IV and mother of Ptolemy V, murdered in 204 BC.
Arsinoe of Macedon
Arsinoe of Macedon (Arsinoe of Macedonia) was a 4th-century BC Macedonian woman, said to have been a concubine of Philip II, wife of Lagus, and mother of Ptolemy I Soter.
Arsinoite nome
The Arsinoite nome, Greek Arsinoites or Crocodilopolites, was the administrative district of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt covering the Fayum basin, renamed for Arsinoe II under Ptolemy II and heavily reshaped by land reclamation.
Arslan Tash amulets
The Arslan Tash amulets are two limestone plaques bought at Arslan Tash in northern Syria in 1933, carrying Phoenician protective incantations in Aramaic script, dated to the 7th century BCE and long disputed as possible forgeries.
Arslan Tash ivory inscription
The Arslan Tash ivory inscription is a short Aramaic text on an ivory furniture veneer naming Hazael, king of Damascus, found at Arslan Tash, Syria, in 1928.
Arsuz stelae
The Arsuz stelae are two near-identical basalt stelae of the later tenth century BC, found in 2007 at Uluçınar in Hatay, Turkey, bearing Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions of King Suppiluliuma of Walastin.
Art of Mesopotamia
Art of Mesopotamia: visual art and architecture of the Tigris-Euphrates land, also called Mesopotamian art, from 8000 BCE to about AD 100, defined by temple, palace, and cemetery patronage, conceptual conventions, cylinder seals, and monuments such as the Warka Vase and Naram-Sin stele.
Artakama
Artakama (Artacama) was a Persian noblewoman, daughter of Artabazus, married to Ptolemy, the future Ptolemy I of Egypt, at the Susa weddings of 324 BC.
Artashumara
Artashumara (Artašumara) was a king of Mitanni, the Hurrian kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia, who reigned in the mid-14th century BC between his father Shuttarna II and Tushratta.
Artatama I
Artatama I was king of Mitanni around 1400 BCE, probably the son and successor of Sauštatar, known chiefly for marrying his daughter to Pharaoh Thutmose IV of Egypt.
Artatama II
Artatama II was a rival claimant to the throne of Mitanni, known to the Hittites as Hanigalbat, who set up his own kingdom in the northeast during the mid-fourteenth century BC dynastic crisis.
Artumpara
Artumpara, in Lycian Arttumpara and Greek Artembarēs, was a dynast of western Lycia who claimed to rule all of Lycia but probably controlled only its western half.
Arwad (أرواد)
Arwad (أرواد), known in antiquity as Arados, is an island off Tartous, Syria's only inhabited island and the principal city of northern Phoenicia, occupied for about 5,000 years.
Arwad bilingual
The Arwad bilingual is a Greek-Phoenician dedicatory inscription found on the island of Arwad, Syria, dated to 25/4 BC, pairing Hermes with Herakles and Melqart; the stone is in the Louvre.
Arwium
Arwium, whose name means "male gazelle", is a legendary early king of Kish in the Sumerian King List, son of Mašda, credited with a 720-year reign.