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Gash Group
The Gash Group was a Bronze Age culture of the Gash Delta in eastern Sudan, known from the site of Mahal Teglinos and dated to the mid-3rd millennium BCE.
Gassulawiya
Gassulawiya was a wife of the Hittite king Mursili II in the late 14th century BC and mother of the later kings Muwatalli II and Hattusili III.
Gauda (Numidian king)
Gauda was king of Numidia in North Africa from 105 to 88 BC, a half-brother of Jugurtha whom the Romans installed after Jugurtha's defeat in the Jugurthine War.
Gautseshen
Gautseshen, also written Gatseshen, was a daughter of the Theban High Priest of Amun Menkheperre in Egypt's 21st Dynasty, known above all from an exceptionally long Book of the Dead papyrus.
GDRT
GDRT, conventionally vocalized Gadarat, was an early king of Aksum known from South Arabian inscriptions of the early third century AD, and probably the first Aksumite king to intervene in South Arabian politics.
Geb
Geb, Egyptian earth god of the Heliopolitan Ennead, son of Shu and Tefnut, husband of Nut, father of Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys; linked to kingship, the Throne of Geb, snakes, and the goose hieroglyph.
Gebel Barkal Stela of Thutmose III
A granite stela of Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III, dedicated to Amun-Re about 1432 BC at Gebel Barkal in Sudan, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Gebel el-Arak knife
The Gebel el-Arak knife, also known as the Gebel al-Arak knife, is a Predynastic Egyptian flint knife with a carved ivory handle, held in the Louvre since 1914.
Gebel Sheikh Suleiman inscription
The Gebel Sheikh Suleiman inscription is an Early Dynastic Egyptian rock relief at the Second Cataract of the Nile in Lower Nubia, recording a king's victory over Nubians.
Gebelein Papyri
The Gebelein Papyri are eleven complete administrative scrolls of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, found in a tomb at Gebelein in 1935 and now held in Turin's Museo Egizio.
Gebelein predynastic mummies
The Gebelein predynastic mummies are seven naturally mummified bodies from Predynastic Egypt in the British Museum, including "Ginger," whose bearers carry the world's earliest known figural tattoos.
Gebre Meskel
Gebre Meskel (Gäbrä-Mäsqäl, 'servant of the cross') is a traditional sixth-century king of Aksum and son of Kaleb, canonized by the Ethiopian Church with a feast on 8 December.
Gebu (high steward)
Gebu was a high steward of Egypt during the late Middle Kingdom, an official managing the provisions, granaries, and herds that sustained the royal house.
Gedaliah (son of Ahikam)
Gedaliah, also known as Gedalyahu ben Ahikam, was the Judean appointed by Nebuchadnezzar II to govern Judah after Jerusalem fell in 586 BCE, ruling from Mizpah until his murder.
Gedaliah son of Pashhur
Gedaliah son of Pashhur was a Judean official at Zedekiah's court who urged Jeremiah's death in Jeremiah 38:1; his seal impression was found in Jerusalem's City of David in 2008.
Gemariah (son of Shaphan)
Gemariah, also Gemaryahu, was a prince of Judah at King Jehoiakim's court around 605 BC, son of the scribe Shaphan, known from Jeremiah 36 and a bulla found in Jerusalem.
Geme-Ninlila
Geme-Ninlila was a royal woman of the Ur III dynasty known from cuneiform tablets at Puzriš-Dagan as a consort or concubine of King Shulgi, with her own business activity.
Gemenefhorbak
Gemenefhorbak was an ancient Egyptian Vizier of the North, responsible for Lower Egypt during the 26th (Saite) Dynasty, known from his sarcophagus now in Turin.
Genealogy of the Ankhefensekhmet
The Genealogy of the Ankhefensekhmet, also known as the Stela of Ankhefensekhmet, is a late 22nd Dynasty limestone relief from Memphis recording over 50 generations of a priest's ancestors.
Gerostratos (king of Arwad)
Gerostratos, in Phoenician Gerashtart, was king of the island city of Arwad in northern Phoenicia in the mid-4th century BC, known from Arrian's account of Alexander the Great's campaign.
Gersem
Gersem of Aksum was a king of the Aksumite kingdom in Ethiopia and Eritrea, known almost entirely from his rare late sixth or early seventh century coins.
Geshem
Geshem, also called Gashmu or Geshem the Arab, was a fifth-century BC Arab leader, probably of Qedar, who with Sanballat and Tobiah opposed Nehemiah's rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls.
Geshur
Geshur was a small Iron Age Aramean kingdom northeast of the Sea of Galilee, known from the Hebrew Bible as the land of King David's wife Maacah.
Geshurites
The Geshurites were the Iron Age inhabitants of Geshur, a small Aramean kingdom northeast of the Sea of Galilee, remembered as King David's in-laws through Maacah.
Gezer calendar
The Gezer calendar is a small limestone tablet listing a year of agricultural activities, found at Tel Gezer, Israel, in 1908 and dated to the tenth century BCE.
Gilgamesh and Aga
Gilgamesh and Aga is a Sumerian poem about Aga of Kish, son of Enmebaragesi, whose war on Uruk ends with his capture and release by Gilgamesh.
Gilukhipa
Gilukhipa, also known as Kilushepa, was a Mitannian princess, daughter of King Shuttarna II, sent to Egypt around 1382 BC as a bride for Pharaoh Amenhotep III.
Gimillu
Gimillu was an official of the Eanna temple of Ištar at Uruk, an oblate and rent farmer active from 539 to about 535 BC, spanning the Persian conquest of Babylonia.
Gindibu
Gindibu was a king of the Arabs who fought Shalmaneser III at the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC with 1,000 camel riders, the earliest named Arab ruler.
Girsu (Gulf trade texts)
The Girsu Gulf trade texts are administrative tablets excavated at Girsu (Telloh), southern Iraq, recording Lagash's copper and timber trade with Dilmun from the 25th century BCE onward.