Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

Nicator faced ANTIGONUS I MONOPHTHALMUSand his son DEMETRIUS I POLIORCETES. Antigonus was defeated and slain at Ipsus. His death ...

Iset (3)(fl. 14th century B.C.E.) Royal woman of the Eighteenth Dynasty She was the daughter of AMENHOTEP III(r. 1391–1353 B.C.E ...

appeared in BUBASTIS, BUSIRIS, DENDEREH, ALEXANDRIA, TEBTYNIS, Medinet Ma’adi, MEMPHIS, and elsewhere. As Isis Pelagia, the godd ...

tained a limestone SARCOPHAGUS. Ita’s mummy had a bitumen-soaked covering under a thin layer of plaster. Her funerary mask had g ...

at an area between the fourth and fifth cataracts. He left a STELAat KURGUSto commemorate his victories. Iymery (Iumeri)(fl. 24t ...

J 187 jackal This animal, called auauor a’asha,was associ- ated with MORTUARY RITUALSand the cults of the gods ANUBISand DUAMUTE ...

Osiris, accompanied by the Forty-two Judges, demon-like creatures, reviewed the lives of the deceased Egyptians and absolved the ...

K 189 ka The ancient Egyptian term for a spiritual essence that existed alongside the human form and yet main- tained individual ...

scepter. When the Ka’aper statue was taken out of the mastaba, the modern Egyptian workmen on the site announced that it was a p ...

was L-shaped and depicted dancers, acrobats, hunting, scribes, and agricultural scenes in beautiful reliefs. There were pits inc ...

and the Nubians in modern Sudan below the first cataract). He vowed to renew the war and to rid Egypt of all alien elements. The ...

southwest, with the second part at right angles to the original shrine. The third section was added by later rulers and complete ...

duplicates in stone of the flora and fauna that Tuthmosis III came upon in his Syrian and Palestinian military cam- paigns and c ...

Thought.Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 1999; Road to Kadesh: a Historical Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King Sety I ...

Kawit (1) (Khawait, Kawait)(fl. 24th century B.C.E.)Royal woman of the Sixth Dynasty She was the consort of TETI(r. 2323–2291 B. ...

B.C.E.) and made legally binding decisions and imposed penalties on the nome level. The great kenbet, the national equivalent of ...

Athenian, Khabrias resided in Egypt, and his daughter, PTOLEMAIS (1), married an Egyptian general named Nakhtnebef. Nakhtnebef b ...

on the popular theme of a nation in distress. He carries on a conversation with his heart and receives counsel for silent courag ...

Another stone vase records: “Year of Fighting the North- ern Enemy.” Kha’sekhemwy’s consort was NIMA’ATHAP(Hapnima’at or Nema’at ...

Khentakawes was depicted as wearing the pharaonic symbol of the URAEUSand carrying a SCEPTER, perhaps serving as regent for a ti ...