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Dream Stela of Tanutamani
The Dream Stela of Tanutamani is a granite stela of the Kushite pharaoh Tanutamani, carved in 664 BC at Jebel Barkal, recording a dream of ruling all Egypt.
Dream Stela of Tanutamun
The Dream Stela of Tanutamun is a granite stela from Gebel Barkal recording a dream of two serpents that legitimized the last king of Egypt's 25th Dynasty.
Drehem archive
The Drehem archive, also known as the Puzrish-Dagan archive, is a corpus of over 15,000 Ur III administrative tablets, chiefly livestock records, from a center near Nippur used from about 2056 to 2026 BC.
Dryton
Dryton (Greek Δρύτων), son of Pamphilos, was a Greek cavalry officer and moneylender at Pathyris in Upper Egypt in the second century BC, known through his family archive.
Dryton and Apollonia archive
The Dryton and Apollonia archive is a bilingual Greek–Demotic family archive from Pathyris (Gebelein) in Upper Egypt, kept by a Cretan cavalry officer and his wife in the 2nd century BC.
Duaenhor
Duaenhor was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, probable son of Kawab and Queen Hetepheres II and grandson of King Khufu, buried in mastaba G 7550 at Giza.
Duaenre
Duaenre was a Fourth Dynasty Egyptian prince and vizier, a son of king Khafre and queen Meresankh, buried in mastaba G 5110 in the Western Cemetery at Giza.
Duat
Duat (dwꜣt) is the ancient Egyptian otherworld, the region of night, passage, and regeneration traversed by the dead and the nightly sun. Attested from the Pyramid Texts onward, it hosts Osiris, the solar journey, and the judgment of the heart, and resists a single fixed definition.
Duatentopet
Duatentopet, also known as Tentopet, was a queen of ancient Egypt's 20th Dynasty, a wife of Ramesses IV and probably the mother of Ramesses V, buried in tomb QV 74.
Duathathor-Henuttawy
Duathathor-Henuttawy, also written Henettawy, was an Egyptian royal woman of the early Twenty-first Dynasty, wife of the high priest Pinedjem I and mother of King Psusennes I.
Ducarius
Ducarius was an Insubrian cavalryman serving under Hannibal whom Livy names as the killer of the Roman consul Flaminius at Lake Trasimene in 217 BC.
Dudu (king of Akkad)
Dudu of Akkad was a late Sargonic king of Akkad, listed in the Sumerian King List for 21 years and succeeded by his son Shu-turul, one of the last two kings.
Dugammu
Dugammu, also rendered Dugdammê or, in Greek tradition, Lygdamis, was a Cimmerian ruler in Anatolia in the seventh century BC who took Sardis and raided Ionia.
Dugdamme
Dugdamme, also known as Lygdamis, was a king of the Cimmerians who died around 640 BC during his second campaign against the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
Dukki Gel statue cache
The Dukki Gel statue cache is a ritual deposit of seven black granite royal statues found at Dukki Gel, near Kerma, Sudan, in January 2003 and displayed at the Kerma museum.
Dumuzid the Fisherman
Dumuzid the Fisherman, also known as Dumuzi the Fisherman, is a legendary king of Uruk in the Sumerian King List who succeeded Lugalbanda and preceded Gilgamesh.
Duppi-Teshub
Duppi-Teshub (Duppi-Teššub, also spelled Tuppi-Teshub) was a king of Amurru, a Syrian kingdom between the Hittite and Egyptian spheres, grandson of Aziru and vassal of Muršili II, circa 1321–1295 BCE.
Durand Stone
The Durand Stone was a basalt block shaped like a human foot, found on Bahrain in 1879 by Captain Edward Law Durand and bearing a cuneiform dedication.
Durbar of Year 12
The Durbar of Year 12, or Year 12 durbar of Akhenaten, was a ceremonial reception of foreign tribute held at Akhenaten's capital Akhetaten around 1340 BC.
Dusigu
Dusigu was a royal woman of Ebla in northern Syria, last wife of king Irkab-damu and mother of Ishar-damu, who dominated the court as regent for nearly twenty years.
Dynastic race theory
Dynastic race theory, sometimes called the Dynastic Race, is the discredited claim that an invading eastern master race brought civilization to ancient Egypt, proposed by Flinders Petrie in 1939.
Dynasty E
Dynasty E, also called the Dynasty of E, is the Babylonian King List's label for the kings of Babylon from roughly the tenth to eighth centuries BC.
Dynasty of Arrapha
The Dynasty of Arrapha ruled the Hurrian kingdom of Arrapha, a Mitanni vassal with its capital at modern Kirkuk, during the 15th and 14th centuries BC.
Dynasty of Eshmunazar
The Dynasty of Eshmunazar, or House of Eshmunazar, was the royal house that ruled Phoenician Sidon under Persian rule in the 6th and 5th centuries BC.
Dynasty of Hiram I
The Dynasty of Hiram I was the royal house that ruled Tyre from Hiram I's accession c. 969 BC until Ithobaal I seized the throne in the 880s BC.
Dynasty of Ithobaal
The Dynasty of Ithobaal, or House of Ethbaal, was the royal house of Tyre founded by Ithobaal I, a priest of Astarte who seized the throne c. 887 BC.
Dynasty of Kish
The First Dynasty of Kish is the opening postdiluvian dynasty of the Sumerian King List, a largely legendary line of kings of the city of Kish in Early Dynastic Sumer.
Dʿmt
Dʿmt, also written Daʿamat, was a polity of the first half of the 1st millennium BC centered on Yeha in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, and extending into Eritrea, preceding the Kingdom of Aksum.
E-iginimpa'e
E-iginimpa'e was an Early Dynastic Sumerian ruler (ensi) of Adab, dated to around 2400 BC and known from a single votive inscription recording his building of the goddess Dingirmaḫ's Emaḫ temple.
EA 15
EA 15 is a clay tablet letter from Assyrian king Ashur-uballit I to the king of Egypt, the first such message, sent around the mid-14th century BC.