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Aḫḫulla
Aḫḫulla, also written Aḫḫula, is a land of the Hittite Old Kingdom, attested only in the Proclamation of Telipinu among territories lost under King Ammuna around 1550 BC.
Ahijah of Shiloh
Ahijah of Shiloh, or Ahijah the Shilonite, was an Israelite prophet of the 10th century BC who foretold that Jeroboam would rule ten tribes breaking from Solomon's house.
Ahikam son of Shaphan
Ahikam (Hebrew אֲחִיקָם) was a high royal official of Judah in the late 7th century BC, son of the secretary Shaphan, father of Gedaliah, and protector of Jeremiah.
Ahimaaz
Ahimaaz, also rendered Achimaas, was the son of the high priest Zadok and a courier for David during Absalom's revolt, outrunning the Cushite to bring news of the victory.
Ahimelech
Ahimelech, also spelled Ahimelek, was a priest at Nob during Saul's reign who gave fleeing David the showbread and Goliath's sword, and was killed on Doeg's denunciation.
Ahimiti (king of Ashdod)
Ahimiti, also Aḫimti, was a king of the Philistine city of Ashdod, placed on the throne by Sargon II after the deposition of his brother Azuri.
Ahinoam
Ahinoam, also known as Achinoam, of Jezreel was a wife of David and mother of his firstborn son Amnon; she married David during his outlaw years around 1000 BC.
Ahiram sarcophagus
The Ahiram sarcophagus, also known as the Ahirom sarcophagus, is a limestone sarcophagus of King Ahiram of Byblos, found in 1923 and now in the National Museum of Beirut.
Ahithophel
Ahithophel, also spelled Ahitophel (Hebrew אֲחִיתֹפֶל), was the Gilonite counselor of King David in the Hebrew Bible; he defected to Absalom's revolt and, when his advice was thwarted, hanged himself.
Ahmes
Ahmes, Egyptian Ahmose, was an ancient Egyptian scribe who copied the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus in year 33 of King Apepi, around 1537 BCE, and is known from nothing else.
Ahmose (fan-bearer)
Ahmose, also written Ahmes, was an Egyptian court official under Akhenaten who served as true scribe of the king and fan-bearer on the king's right hand.
Ahmose (wife of Thutmose I)
Ahmose was a Great Royal Wife of Thutmose I, an 18th Dynasty king of Egypt's New Kingdom, best known as the mother of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut.
Ahmose called Si-Tayit
Ahmose called Si-Tayit is an early 18th Dynasty figure named in connection with the first viceroy (king's son) of Kush, though the Met names Ruiu instead.
Ahmose Humay
Ahmose Humay was an Egyptian official of the 18th Dynasty who managed the granaries of the God's Wife of Amun under Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.
Ahmose I
Ahmose I (Nebpehtyre), c. 1550–1525 BCE, first pharaoh of Egypt's 18th Dynasty who expelled the Hyksos and founded the New Kingdom; his Abydos pyramid complex, debated tomb, and queen Ahmose-Nefertari distinguish him.
Ahmose I's campaign against Kerma
Ahmose I's campaign against Kerma was a series of Egyptian military operations into Nubia in the early Eighteenth Dynasty, around 1550 to 1525 BC, targeting the Kingdom of Kush.
Ahmose Pen-Nekhbet
Ahmose Pen-Nekhbet, also written Ahmose-Pennekhbet, was an Egyptian official and soldier of the early 18th Dynasty who served Thutmose I, Thutmose II, and Hatshepsut and was buried at El-Kab.
Ahmose son of Ebana
Ahmose son of Ebana was an Egyptian naval officer from Elkab who served under Ahmose I, Amenhotep I, and Thutmose I in the early Eighteenth Dynasty.
Ahmose Turo
Ahmose Turo, also known as Turi, was an official of Egypt's early 18th Dynasty who served as Viceroy of Kush, the crown's top administrator of Nubia, under Amenhotep I and Thutmose I.
Ahmose-Henuttamehu
Ahmose-Henuttamehu was a royal princess of the late 17th Dynasty at Thebes, in the family of Seqenenre Tao, whose mummified relatives were reburied in the Deir el-Bahari royal cache.
Ahmose-Inhapy
Ahmose-Inhapy, also written Ahmose-Inhapi, was a Theban queen of Egypt's late 17th Dynasty, probably a wife of Seqenenre Tao II and a daughter of Senakhtenre Tao I.
Ahmose-Meritamon
Ahmose-Meritamon, also Ahmose-Meritamun, was an Egyptian queen of Dynasty 18, daughter of Ahmose I and Great Royal Wife of her brother Amenhotep I, buried in tomb TT358 at Deir el-Bahari.
Ahmose-Nefertari
Ahmose-Nefertari, also known as Ahmose-Nofretari, was an Egyptian queen of the early 18th Dynasty, wife of Ahmose I and mother of Amenhotep I, later deified at Thebes.
Ahmose-Sapair
Ahmose-Sapair, also written Ahmose-Sipair, was a prince of the Theban royal family at the end of Egypt's Seventeenth Dynasty, around 1560 BCE, remembered through a funerary cult lasting five centuries.
Ahmose-Sitamun
Ahmose-Sitamun was a princess of Egypt's early Eighteenth Dynasty, a daughter of pharaoh Ahmose I, known chiefly from a large statue erected for her at Karnak.
Ahmose-Sitkamose
Ahmose-Sitkamose, also written Ahmose Satkamose, was an Egyptian queen of the early 18th Dynasty, most likely a daughter of Kamose and wife of Ahmose I.
Ahmosid family
Ahmose-Nebetta was a royal woman of the Ahmosid family, the Theban house that expelled the Hyksos and founded the 18th Dynasty; she is not among the mummies securely identified in cache TT320.
Ahšeri
Ahšeri, also known as Ahseri or Aksheri, was king of Mannea in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran in the mid-7th century BC, during the reigns of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal.
Ahuni (king of Bit-Adini)
Ahuni, also written Aḫuni, was the last king of Bit-Adini, an Aramaean kingdom on the middle Euphrates south of Carchemish, defeated and captured by the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III around 855 BC.
Ailymas
Ailymas was a North African ruler called king of the Libyans by Diodorus Siculus, who allied with Agathocles of Syracuse in 310 BC, deserted him, and was killed in battle.