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Complaints of Khakheperraseneb
The Complaints of Khakheperraseneb, also spelled Khakheperreseneb, is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian lament in which a priest of Heliopolis addresses his own heart about a country overwhelmed by chaos.
Completion of the Red Pyramid
The completion of the Red Pyramid marks the finish, late in the reign of King Sneferu, of the first smooth-sided true pyramid, built at Dahshur near Cairo around 2589 BC.
Completion of the Second Temple
The completion of the Second Temple, or dedication of the Second Temple, was the finishing of the rebuilt Jerusalem temple in 516/515 BC under Darius I.
Cones of Enmetena
The Cones of Enmetena are Sumerian clay cone inscriptions of Enmetena, ruler of Lagash, recording the Lagash-Umma border settlement and the building of Inanna's Emush temple.
Conquest of Dilmun and Magan by Sargon of Akkad
The conquest of Dilmun and Magan by Sargon of Akkad was an Akkadian extension into Persian Gulf trade in the 23rd century BC, when Naram-Sin conquered Magan and captured its ruler Manium.
Conquest of Eshnunna by Hammurabi
The conquest of Eshnunna by Hammurabi was the defeat of the Diyala-region kingdom by Babylon's Hammurabi in about 1762 BC, ending with the city destroyed by a flood.
Conquest of Herakleopolis by Mentuhotep II
The conquest of Herakleopolis by Mentuhotep II, around 2055 BC, was the final Theban campaign against the Herakleopolitan dynasty of northern Egypt, ending it and reunifying the country to open the Middle Kingdom.
Conquest of Mari by Shamshi-Adad I
Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria conquered the Amorite kingdom of Mari on the middle Euphrates around 1794 BC, after its Lim dynasty collapsed, and installed his son Yasmah-Adad as a dependent ruler.
Conquest of Urartu by Cyaxares
The conquest of Urartu by Cyaxares is the traditional name for the end of the Iron Age kingdom of Urartu, attributed to a Median invasion around 609 BC.
Conquests of Ankhtifi
The Conquests of Ankhtifi were the campaigns of Ankhtifi, a nomarch of Hierakonpolis during Egypt's First Intermediate Period, recorded in his tomb inscription at Mo'alla.
Conquests of Ipiq-Adad II
The conquests of Ipiq-Adad II were the campaigns by which Eshnunna expanded into a major power of the land of Akkad in the early Old Babylonian period.
Constitution of Carthage
The constitution of Carthage was the ancient city's system of government, described by Aristotle in his Politics as a mixed constitution rivaling Sparta and Crete.
Construction of the First Dynasty royal tombs at Umm el-Qaab
The First Dynasty royal tombs at Umm el-Qaab are the mudbrick tombs of Egypt's earliest kings at Abydos, ringed by subsidiary graves of sacrificed retainers and paired with funerary enclosures.
Construction of the Saqqara elite mastabas of Dynasty 1
The construction of the Saqqara elite mastabas of Dynasty 1 built huge mud-brick elite tombs at North Saqqara during Egypt's First Dynasty, mainly under Djet, Den, and Adjib.
Construction of the Second Temple
The Construction of the Second Temple, also called the Rebuilding of the Second Temple, was the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem, completed in 516 BC under Zerubbabel.
Copper Bull
The Copper Bull is a life-sized standing bull of hammered copper over a wooden core from the Early Dynastic temple of Ninhursag at Tell al-'Ubaid, southern Iraq.
Copper Hoard culture
The Copper Hoard culture is an archaeological horizon of northern India, defined by hoards of cast copper tools, weapons, and anthropomorphic figures, dating roughly 2600 to 1200 BC.
Coptos Decrees
The Coptos Decrees are Old Kingdom royal decree stelae found at the temple of Min at Coptos, issued by kings from Pepi I to Neferkauhor.
Coregency Stela
The Coregency Stela is an Egyptian stela from Abydos whose inscription pairs Amenemhat I and Senusret I, dated Year 30 and Year 10 as if equivalent.
Coronation at Jebel Barkal
The coronation at Jebel Barkal was the royal accession ritual of the Napatan kings of Kush, performed from the 8th century BC at Napata, modern Karima in Sudan.
Corpus of South Arabian inscriptions
The corpus of South Arabian inscriptions is the body of printed and digital collections, above all the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum and Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique, editing over 15,000 pre-Islamic South Arabian inscriptions.
Correspondence of Suppiluliuma and Amenhotep III
The Correspondence of Suppiluliuma and Amenhotep III, also called the Amarna Hittite letters, is a set of four cuneiform tablets sent by Suppiluliuma I of Hatti to Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BC.
Correspondence of the Kings of Ur
The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur is a collection of literary letters between the Ur III kings and their officials, the largest surviving corpus of Sumerian prose.
Cosmas Indicopleustes at Adulis
Cosmas Indicopleustes at Adulis records the sixth-century visit of the Alexandrian merchant Cosmas to Adulis, Aksum's Red Sea port, where he copied two Greek royal inscriptions.
Council of 104
The Council of 104, also called the Court of 104, was Carthage's high tribunal, judging generals and magistrates after office, with penalties up to crucifixion.
Council of Elders (Carthage)
The Council of Elders, or Adirim, was Carthage's aristocratic senate, one of the three main offices of its constitution alongside the suffetes and the Hundred and Four.
Council of Timna
The Council of Timna was the tribal council of the ancient kingdom of Qatabān, seated at its capital Tamnaʿ in Yemen, where it shared legislative power with the king.
Counsels of Wisdom
The Counsels of Wisdom (Akkadian Ummānu māršu imallik) is a Babylonian wisdom composition of about 150 verses, probably composed around 1200–1100 BCE and popular as a school text.
Crimes and Sacrileges of Nabu-šuma-iškun
The Crimes and Sacrileges of Nabu-šuma-iškun is a Babylonian polemical text, preserved on a damaged tablet from Uruk, denouncing the Chaldean king Nabu-šuma-iškun, who died in 748 BC.
Croeseid
A Croeseid is a pure gold or silver coin struck at Sardis under King Croesus of Lydia in the mid-sixth century BCE, bearing a lion and bull.