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Khirbet el-Qom inscription
The Khirbet el-Qom inscription is an 8th-century BC Hebrew votive graffito from a burial cave in Judah, blessing a man named Uriyahu by Yahweh and his asherah.
Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon
The Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon is a five-line ink inscription on a pottery sherd, dated to about 1000 BC and found at the fortified site of Khirbet Qeiyafa in Israel.
Khita of Awan
Khita, also written Hita, was a ruler of Awan in ancient western Iran around 2250 BC, known as the Elamite partner in an alliance with Naram-Sin of Akkad.
Khnum
Khnum (Khnemu) was the ram-headed ancient Egyptian creator god who shaped humans on a potter's wheel and guarded the Nile's source, worshipped chiefly at Elephantine with Satet and Anuqet and at the Temple of Esna.
Khnumhotep I
Khnumhotep I was a provincial governor of the Oryx nome in Middle Egypt who served Amenemhat I and was buried in rock-cut tomb BH 14 at Beni Hassan.
Khnumhotep II
Khnumhotep II was a high-ranking Egyptian official of the 12th Dynasty, Administrator of the Eastern Desert, known for his Beni Hassan tomb with its famous procession of 37 Asiatics.
Khnumhotep II's inscription on Asiatics
An inscription in Khnumhotep II's Beni Hasan tomb, dated to year 6 of Senusret II, recording 37 Aamu who came for eye-paint, led by Abisha.
Khnumhotep III
Khnumhotep III was a high steward and later vizier of Egypt's 12th Dynasty under Senusret II and Senusret III, buried in a mastaba at Dahshur near the king's pyramid.
Khnumhotep IV
Khnumhotep IV was an ancient Egyptian provincial official of the Twelfth Dynasty, son of Khnumhotep II, whose unfinished tomb BH 4 at Beni Hassan was the last rock tomb cut there.
Khonsuemheb and the Ghost
Khonsuemheb and the Ghost is an Egyptian ghost story of the New Kingdom, in which a high priest of Amun meets a spirit whose tomb has fallen into ruin.
Khorsabad Annals
The Khorsabad Annals, also called the Annals of Sargon II, are annalistic royal inscriptions engraved on wall slabs of Sargon II's palace at Dur-Sharrukin, modern Khorsabad in Iraq.
Khubau
Khubau was a high official of late Old Kingdom Egypt, great overlord of the 8th Upper Egyptian nome around 2300 BCE, buried near King Pepy II's pyramid.
Khuenre
Khuenre, also printed Khuenra, was an Egyptian prince of the Fourth Dynasty, the eldest son of King Menkaure and Queen Khamerernebty II, buried at Giza.
Khufu
Khufu (Cheops), Fourth Dynasty pharaoh reigning about 2509–2483 BC, builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza; muon scans found a 30 m void and a hidden corridor, and his Wadi el-Jarf papyri record its construction.
Khufu Statuette
The Khufu Statuette is a small ivory figure of King Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid, the only surviving three-dimensional image of him bearing his name.
Khufukhaf I
Khufukhaf I, also written Khafkhufu, was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a son of King Khufu who served as vizier and was buried at Giza.
Khufukhaf II
Khufukhaf II, also written Khafkhufu II, was an Old Kingdom Egyptian official buried in mastaba G 7150 in the Eastern Cemetery at Giza, near Khufukhaf I.
Khui (pharaoh)
Khui was a pharaoh of Egypt at the end of the Old Kingdom, around 2160 BC, known almost solely from one inscribed block and a large mudbrick monument at Dara, Middle Egypt.
Khuit I
Khuit I was a queen consort of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty in the Old Kingdom, whose precise standing among the late Fifth Dynasty royal women is still debated by scholars.
Khuit II
Khuit II was a queen consort of Teti, first king of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, known from her small pyramid at Saqqara, which Zahi Hawass's excavations showed she was Teti's primary wife.
Khunes
Khunes was a high official and governor of Elephantine, Egypt's southern frontier, in the late Old Kingdom, buried in the largest tomb complex at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan.
Khyan
Khyan, also rendered Khayan or Khian, was one of the most important Hyksos kings of Egypt's 15th Dynasty, with his reign dated roughly 1681 to 1581 BC.
Kibri-Dagan
Kibri-Dagan (Kibrī-Dagan) was governor of Terqa on the Middle Euphrates under King Zimri-Lim of Mari in the 18th century BC, known almost entirely through his 139 letters in the Mari palace archives.
Kidin-Hutran
Kidin-Hutran, also printed Kiddin-Khutran, is the name of one or more kings of Elam of the Igihalkid dynasty, remembered for victories over Kassite Babylonian rulers in the 1220s BC.
Kidinuid dynasty
The Kidinuid dynasty, named after king Kidinu, was the first group of Middle Elamite rulers of ancient Elam, centered on Susa around 1500–1400 BC and best known from the Haft Tappeh tablets of Tepti-Ahar.
Kikki (Anatolian king)
Kikki, also written Kiakki, was a ruler of Tabal in south-central Anatolia, son of King Tuatti, who submitted to Shalmaneser III of Assyria around 837 BC.
Kikku-Siwe-Temti
Kikku-Siwe-Temti was a king of Elam of the Awan dynasty, the seventh of twelve rulers on a king list from Susa, placed in the later 24th century BC.
Kikkuli
Kikkuli, also written Kikuli, was a Mitanni master horse trainer of about 1350 B.C. whose Hittite manual prescribes a chariot-horse conditioning program of at least 184 days.
Kikkuli text
The Kikkuli text is a Hittite manual for conditioning chariot horses, written by Kikkuli, a horse trainer from the land Mittani, preserved on clay tablets from Hattusa.
Kilamuwa
Kilamuwa, also known as Kulamuwa, was the fifth king of Sam'al, an Iron Age kingdom at Zincirli Höyük in southern Turkey, known from his basalt stela with a Phoenician inscription, dated around 830 BCE.