Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

422 Valley Festival It was a unique celebration held annu- ally on the western shore of THEBES, and also called “the Beautiful F ...

Valley of the Kings 423 rounded by towering walls, with bays and ravines. Both valleys are separated from Thebes and the Nile by ...

424 Valley of the Queens The general plan of the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings developed rather early in that era. Most ...

vizier 425 centers on the Nile. In the reign of TUTHMOSIS III (1479–1425 B.C.E.), the viceroy of Kush governed from Mi’am, 140 m ...

426 Votaresses of Karnak palace office, the type of reports deemed necessary to maintain communications with other government bu ...

W 427 Wa He was one of the two COMPANIONS OF THE DIVINE HEART, associated with the cosmogonic traditions of Egypt and with the c ...

428 Wadj Inscriptions in the area commemorate the Nubian cam- paigns of SENWOSRET I(r. 1971–1926 B.C.E.). A temple was erected t ...

in the rituals, and her image was used in the royal sym- bol, the URAEUS. wadjet The symbol of “the EYE OF RÉ” or “the EYE OF HO ...

430 Way of Horus Way of Horus An ancient Egyptian road of strategic importance, linking the eastern modern border town of El-Qan ...

Western Waters 431 battle against “Asiatic Sand-dwellers,” obviously BEDOU- INSof the SINAI. He speaks of a site called “Gazelle ...

432 Westptah Delta. The Western Waters irrigated an area noted for vineyards and fine wines. In some historical periods the rule ...

writing materials 433 sites and did the cooking, weaving, or nursing. They received honors as a result. Legally, the women of an ...

434 X Xerxes I(d. 466 B.C.E.)Persian king of Egypt of the Twenty-seventh Dynasty Xerxes I reigned over Egypt from 486 B.C.E. unt ...

435 Y Yakoba’am(fl. 16th century B.C.E.)Ruler of the Hyksos Sixteenth Dynasty He was a founder of a line of HYKSOSkings (c. 1640 ...

436 Yuia Yuia See YUYA. Yuny (fl. 13th century B.C.E.)Aristocratic official of the Nineteenth Dynasty Yuny served RAMESSES II(r. ...

Z 437 Zanakht See NEBKA. Zannanza(fl. 14th century B.C.E.)Ill-fated prince of the Hittites The son of the Hittite king SUPPILULI ...

438 Zerukha lived beside the FAIYUMand managed Apollonius’s estates in the region. Zenon also traveled to ALEXANDRIA, Pales- tin ...

a’akh a spirit freed from the bonds of the flesh. A’amu the name given to the Asiatics, particularly the Hyksos. A’aru a paradis ...

herset the name given to carnelian. herset-hedji the name for chalcedony. Heru-Shemsu the followers of Horus. hes used with puri ...

pa duat a tomb chamber for the patron deity. pat anancient Egyptian caste, associated with Horus. Patuit-Taui the name of the Fi ...