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Edomite language
Edomite is the Canaanite language of the Iron Age kingdom of Edom, south of the Dead Sea, attested in scarcely 30 inscriptions of the seventh and sixth centuries BC.
Edomite pottery
Edomite pottery, also called Busayra Painted Ware, is an Iron Age painted ceramic ware from Edom in southern Jordan, marked by black concentric circles over white slip.
Eduard Meyer
Eduard Meyer (1855–1930) was a German ancient historian and Egyptologist whose five-volume Geschichte des Altertums (1884–1902) made him, after Theodor Mommsen, the best known German ancient historian of his age.
Eduba
The eduba (é.dub.ba.a, "tablet house"; Akkadian bīt tuppim) was where ancient Mesopotamian scribes trained, known chiefly from Old Babylonian private houses such as Nippur's House F.
Edwin Smith Papyrus
The Edwin Smith Papyrus, also called the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, is an ancient Egyptian surgical trauma treatise with 48 injury cases, copied around 1600 BC.
Egibi Archive
The Egibi Archive, or Egibi family archive, is a collection of about 1,700 cuneiform tablets from Babylon recording one family's affairs across five generations, from about 606 to 484 BCE.
Egibi family
The Egibi family was an entrepreneurial, land-owning family of Babylon active for five generations from Nebuchadnezzar II into the reign of Xerxes I (sixth to early fifth centuries BC).
Egyptian campaigns in Nubia under Sneferu
Military raids by the Fourth Dynasty Egyptian king Sneferu against Nubia, known from the Palermo Stone annals, which record 60 boats, 7,000 captives, and 200,000 livestock taken around 2600 BC.
Egyptian copies of the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty
The Egyptian copies of the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty are two hieroglyphic inscriptions at Karnak and the Ramesseum recording the peace accord between Ramesses II and Hattusili III.
Egyptian governor residencies
Egyptian governor residencies, also called Egyptian residencies in Canaan, were administrative centers built by New Kingdom Egypt in Canaan during the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.
Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll
The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian mathematical text on leather, bought in Egypt by Henry Rhind in 1858 and held in the British Museum, preserving 26 unit-fraction equalities written in duplicate.
Egyptian pyramids
Egyptian pyramids: Old Kingdom royal tombs (2686–2181 BC), from Djoser's Step Pyramid by Imhotep to Khufu's Great Pyramid (146.5 m); distinct from later, smaller Nubian pyramids.
Egyptian revolt against Darius I
The Egyptian revolt against Darius I, also called the Great Revolt of the Egyptians against Darius I, was an uprising in Persian-ruled Egypt beginning in 486 BC and crushed by Xerxes around 485/484 BC.
Egyptian synodal decrees
Egyptian synodal decrees, also called priestly decrees, are collective enactments of priests in Ptolemaic Egypt, issued between 238 and 161 BC and inscribed on stelae, most famously the Rosetta Stone.
Egyptian temple
Egyptian temple (hut-netcher, "god's house"): sacred building housing cults of gods, the king, or the blessed dead, centered on a cult image served daily by priests, with public contact mainly through festivals; most surviving temples are Ptolemaic.
Egyptian withdrawal from Nubia
The Egyptian withdrawal from Nubia was the end of pharaonic rule and viceregal administration of Kush around 1070 BCE, when Viceroy Panehesy severed Nubia from Egyptian control.
Egyptian–Mitanni peace treaty
The Egyptian–Mitanni peace treaty was the settlement of around 1400 BC by which Thutmose IV of Egypt and Artatama I of Mitanni ended hostilities over Syria.
Egyptian–Mitanni treaty of Thutmose IV
A peace treaty and marriage alliance between Thutmose IV of Egypt and Artatama I of Mitanni, known from the Amarna letters and opening an era of marriage diplomacy.
Egyptology
Egyptology is the academic study of ancient Egypt's archaeology, language, history, religion, and art, from about 7000 BC to the early middle ages. Founded on Champollion's 1822 hieroglyph decipherment via the Rosetta Stone, it now spans Nubia and debates over decolonization.
Eheya
Eheya was a king of Kizzuwatna, a kingdom in south-eastern Anatolia roughly corresponding to Cilicia, who ruled in the 15th century BC and made an equal-terms treaty with the Hittite king Tahurwaili.
Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (c. 1550–1295 BC), first dynasty of the New Kingdom, founded by Ahmose after expelling the Hyksos; rulers included Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, and Horemheb.
Eighth Dynasty of Egypt
The Eighth Dynasty of Egypt (Dynasty VIII) was a line of about 18 short-reigning kings resident near Memphis around 2150–2118 BCE, at the close of Egypt's Old Kingdom.
Ekišnugal (Iraq)
Ekišnugal (é-kiš-nu-ĝál₂), also Egišnugal, was the main temple of the moon-god Nanna/Sin at Ur, Iraq, with its ziggurat E-temen-nigur; distinct from a same-named Sîn temple in Babylon, restored by rulers from Ur-Nammu to Nabonidus.
Ekitušgarza
Ekitušgarza, meaning "House, Abode of the Regulations," was a temple of the goddess Bēlet-Eanna in Babylon's Tuba district, rebuilt by Nebuchadnezzar II and not yet identified by excavation.
Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription
The Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription, or Achish inscription, is a royal dedicatory text by Akhayus (Achish), ruler of Ekron, found at Tel Miqne in 1996, the most complete Philistine text known.
Ekron VIII
Ekron VIII is the Late Bronze Age Canaanite stratum at Tel Miqne, biblical Ekron, a 10-acre unfortified settlement destroyed by fire before the Philistine city.
El-Amra clay model of cattle
The El-Amra clay model of cattle is a Predynastic Egyptian group of four clay cows, made about 3500 BC and excavated in 1900–01 from grave A23 at el-Amra, Upper Egypt.
El-Kurru
El-Kurru is the royal burial ground of the Napatan dynasty of Kush, on the Nile near Gebel Barkal in northern Sudan, in use from about 850 to 650 BCE.
Elah (king of Israel)
Elah was the fourth king of Israel, son and successor of Baasha, who reigned two years at Tirzah before being murdered while drunk by Zimri.
Elamite campaigns of Kutir-Nahhunte
The Elamite campaigns of Kutir-Nahhunte were the mid-12th-century BC military campaigns by which the Elamite king Kutir-Nahhunte destroyed Kassite Babylonia and carried the statue of Marduk to Susa.