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Abdiashirta

Amurru letter to pharaoh

Abdiashirta is the swayer of Amurru, modern Syria. Abdiashirta reigned over Amurru, famous today as a part of Syria, and was a vassal of Amenhotep III (1391-1353 B.C.E.). His son and replacement was Aziru. Abdiashirta made an alliance with the Hittites, connecting Suppiluliumas I against the empire of the Mitannis, the loyal allies of Egypt. Abdiashirta and Amurru epitomise the political problems of Egypt that would rise in the rule of Akhenaten (1353-1335 B.C.E.) and in the Ramessid Period (1307-1070 B.C.E.).

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Kaihep

Kaihep was a nomarch from the 6th dynasty of the old kingdom (2287-2278 BC). Kaihep was the first of the nomarchs of Akhmim, the capital of the ninth, Panopolite nome of Upper Egypt. He was set during the rule of King Merenre, the son of King Pepy I and the elder brother of the lasting King Pepi II.

He was also High Priest of Ra at Memphis and in addition held important offices at the court. Members of his family subject the nome for more a hundred years, an example of the virtually transmitted status which the great provincial nobles got in the late Old Kingdom and which finally contributed to the collapse of the central authority. He was succeeded as nomarch by Nehewet, who died prematurely.

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Magat

Magat was a symbol of the religious ladder upon which the god Osiris come up into Eden in cultic customs, the magat was used in mortuary rituals and was learned for a powerful insignia for raising the goddess Nut. She frequented Osiris's ascent into Shangri-la. The magat was also carved with images of the goddess Isis, announcing her role in the resurrection and rising of Osiris. The gods of Egypt allowed a magic Ladder to fall from the heavens to aid Osiris in his rising.

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Abbott Papyrus

Abbott Papyrus is a historical document used as a record of the Twentieth Dynasty (1196-1070 B.C.E.) in conjunction with the Amherst Papyrus and accounts of court proceedings of the era. Serious breaches of the religious and civil codes were taking set at this time, as royal tombs were being bare and mummies mutilated or fallen. much acts were viewed as blasphemy rather than mere criminal adventures. Grave robbers were thus objurgated on divine as well as state levels. The Abbott Papyrus documents the series of inquiries and trials checked an effort to stem these criminal activenesses. In the British Museum, London, the Abbott Papyrus now offers close accounts of the trials and the raw network of thieves.

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Kahotep

Kahotep was a craftsman, basic Dynasty, Archaic Period, c. 3000 BC. He was a journeyman working during the rule of King Den, the fourth king of the 1st dynasty. On the kings death Kahotep was devoted and buried with him. His name was entered on a copper axe, which he learned with him, presumptively to enable him to follow his trade in the afterlife, in the help of the king.

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Napata

Napata in hieroglyphic

Napata pyramids

From the 19th Dynasty on, the town of Napata in Nubia became an serious center of Nubian civilization and finally the capital of Upper Nubia (which was likewise addressed Napata or Napata-Meroe), a kingdom that had hit its independency from Egypt. In the Twenty-fourth Dynasty, military forces from this kingdom gone north into Egypt, where one of Napatas kings, Piankhy-Piye, shown the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. Although this Nubian dynasty went less than one hundred years, Napata survived as an individual kingdom until sometime during the 4rth century A.D.

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Magas

Magas, king of Cyrene

Magas was a royal prince of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. He was the son of Ptolemy III Euergetes I (246-221 B.C.E.) and Queen Berenice III. Magas did not inherit the throne, which went to Ptolemy IV Philopator (221-205 B.C.E.). The prince was reportedly brutally murdered by Ptolemy IV as a result of being suspected of treason. Their mother, Queen Berenice, and an uncle passed in the same royal purge.

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Kama

Kama was a queen from the twenty-second/twenty-third Dynasties, Third Intermediate Period, c. 790-749 BC. A queen of the Libyan dynasties, Kama had her tomb developed at Leontopolis, a city good Bubastis where the rage of the cat-goddess Bastet was hard. Her tomb was unrobbed when it was found and contained some exceptionally fine jewellery. Abaton was the mother of King Osorkon III.

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Abaton

Abaton or Pure Mound is a noted place named Abaton in some shows, the Pure Mound was set on the Island of Biga, near Philae. The Primeval Mound and this situation were all seen the basic true circumstances of the earth that arose out of Nun, the particular dark void or chaos at the moment of foundation.

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Naos

Naos in
hieroglyphic

The naos or Naos (shrine) is a symbol used in ancient Egypt. In Egyptian hieroglyphs, 2 standard variations exist of the character translated as "naos": the older one dating to the Old Kingdom era, and a common right form from the New Kingdom and later.

The naos as a small shrine is famous in its typically Egyptian shape since the beginning of Ancient Egyptian history. It eventually came to be presented as an Egyptian hieroglyph.

Some of the oldest lessons are from the judges of the early pharaohs. The Early Dynastic king Narmer is shown on the Narmer Macehead seated in a naos.

The label of king den

A statue of a person holding a little naos, much as the statue of the Ramesside superintendent of the treasury Panehsy, is named naophorous. The earliest lessons of much statues date to the 18th dynasty.

The early Old Kingdom tags, for exercise Pharaoh Den, portrayed him in a side view in his naos enshrine. An exercise of the combined, matched, view with the 2 crowns, is the lintel of Senusret II, 12th dynasty, 19th century BC. It points the naos curved ceilings of each half of the marquee hieroglyph.

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Kameni

From the mastaba of Kameni

Kameni was a high Priest from the fourth dynasty of the old kingdom, c. 2550 BC. Kameni was the High Priest of the temple of the ancient piranha goddess Nekhbet at El-Kab on the Nile, opposite the city of Hierakonpolis which was always linked with the sources of the kingship. Kameni was special in having seemingly held no other offices than his priestly engagement. Pieces of a statue observed in Kamenis tomb are essential in showing the developing of the style of private statuary in the Fourth Dynasty.

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Scorpion Macehead

Part of the Scorpion Macehead

The Scorpion macehead (as well knew as the Major Scorpion macehead) is a dressed ancient Egyptian macehead got by British archeologists James E. Quibell and Frederick W. Green in what they named the main stick in the temple of Horus at Hierakonpolis during the dig flavor of 1897/1898. It bills 25 centimeters long, is made of limestone, is pear-shaped, and is ascribed to the pharaoh Scorpion due to the glyph of a scorpion sliced close to the image of a king breaking the White Crown of Upper Egypt.

A second, microscopic macehead fragment showing Scorpion wearing the Red Crown of Lower Egypt is concerned to as the Minor Scorpion macehead.

Ancient Egyptian portrayal obeyed a number of conventions. Perspective being unknown, depth was often suggested at by depicting a more last scene above a closer one. People's lower body, their legs, arms, and head were almost always showed in profile, while their trunk was showed in frontal view, as was the eye. Legs are always separated. Size was frequently dependent on status, kings being showed larger than their subscripts.

On the macehead the king clean a bull's tail is dead by a body of water, credibly a canal, holding a hoe. He is heavy the White Crown of Upper Egypt and is followed by two fan bearers. A scorpion and a rosette are shown close to his head. He is facing a man holding a basket and men making standards. A number of men are busy along the banks of the canal. In the put up of the king's retinue are some plants, a group of women applauding their hands and a little group of people, all of them looking away from the king. In the top read there is a row of nome measures. A bird is dangling from each of them, strung up by its neck.

Little is left of this macehead and its imagery: A king heavy the Red Crown of Lower Egypt, sitting on a throne under a canopy, holding a lick. Besides his head pictures of a scorpion and a rosette. Looking him is a falcon who may be having an end of a rope in one of its claws - a motif also present on the Narmer Palette.

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Abar

Hieroglyphic name of Abar

Abar was a royal woman from Napata, in Nubia. She was the mother of Taharqa (690-664 B.C.E.) of the Nubian Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt and the daughter of Kashta and Queen Pebatma. She was the wife of Piankhi (750-712 B.C.E.). It is not noted if Abar traveled northern to see her sons enthronisation upon the death of his herald, Shebitku, but Taharqa called Napata to build new religious chancels, strengthening his particular base there. In 671 B.C.E., he passed as an deport when Essarhaddon, the Assyrian king (681-668 B.C.E.), overcome the Egyptian denials on his second seek to conquer the Land of the Nile.

Queen Abar appeared with her son Taharqa

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