$H A. Egypt

A. &qu= ot;Water." A mystical pool near the celestial Nile. It is figured in the Vignette to the CXth Chapte= r of the Ritual of the Dead. (1876c1)

A. An Egyptian measure; it was equal to twenty-six centili= tres. (1876c1)

$H Aa. Egypt

Aa. An Egyptian adjective, meaning "old" or "great," commonly used in the proper names of the Ancient and Middle empires, or from the IVth to the XVIIIth dynasties. (1876c1)

Aa. "Old men." The name of an Egypti= an deity, worshipped in the town of Aat. (1876c1)

Aa. A city and the second nome of Lower Egypt called by the Greeks Latopolis. It was sacred= to the worship of the goddess Bast or Bubastis. (1876c1)

Aa. One of the demons who accuse the so= ul of the deceased in the Hall of the two Truths. (1876c1)=

$H Aaa. Egypt

The chief of the signet-bearers in the land of Kens, in the Court of King Aspalut of the XXVth dy= nasty. (1876c1)

$H Aaaatamad. Egypt

The Egyptian name of an unidentified town = in Palestine. (1876= c1)

$H Aaab. Egypt

The name of an island in the first nome of Upper Egypt. (1876c1)

An Egyptian gentleman, the son of Kherab. His period is unknown, except that it was b= etween the XIIth and XVIIIth dynasties.

$H Aaani. Egypt

The Egyptian name of the ape, and more especially of the sacred Cynocephalus baboon, which was adored as the liv= ing emblem of the god Thoth. (1876c1)<= /span>

$H Aaasiri. Egypt

A common Egyptian designation of the town = of Busiris. (1876c1)

$H Aaauasasu. Egypt

The title of a royal house in Ethiopia= , in the time of the XXVth dynasty. (1876c1)

$H Aabau. Egypt

An Egyptian officer; the son of Rames. He lived in t= he time of the XVIIIth dynasty. (1876c1)

$H Aah. Egypt

The Egyptian name of an unidentified town. (1876c1)=

"The Moon." The Egyptian nam= e of the god who was called by the Romans Lunus. H= e was represented as an Ibis-headed man, with the lunar horns and disk upon his head: or else, as a man kneeling on one knee, and supporting a disk above= his head with both hands. (1876c1)

Aah<= /span>, who is purely a moon God, shares with Khens= u and Thoth the emblems of the lunar crescent a= nd solar disk. He is sometimes connected with Thoth (q.v.). ILLU= S. Aah. (1902b1)

$H Aahartais. Egypt

An Egyptian lady, the wife of Nakhons. See Nakhons. (1876c1)

$H Aahehu. Egypt

The Egyptian name of an unidentified town. (1876c1)

$H Aahenru. Egypt

The name of the Elysium of Osiris, in the Ritual of the dead. (1876c1)

$H Aaheru. Egypt

"The Chief = of Terrors." One of the mystical deities of the Egyptian Hell. (1876c1)<= /p>

$H = Aah-hetep I. Egypt

Wife of Seqenen-Ra III., an obscure king of the end of Dyna= sty XVII. and mother of Aahmes I., first king of the XVIIIth Dynasty. In 1860, t= he diggers of M. Mariette discovered at Thebes the coffi= n of this queen, but M. Mariette being unfortunate= ly absent at the time, the mummy was robbed of many valuable articles. The coffin cover is in the shape of a mummy, and is gilt from top to bottom. = The articles found in the coffin included a double-hinged bracelet with gold figures, on a groundwork of blue enamel; a large bracelet opening with a hinge; an axe with a handle of cedar-wood covered with gold-leaf and ornamented with lapis lazuli, carnelian and turquoise; a dagger in a shea= th of gold; a gold chain with pendant scarabaeus= ; a large gold collar with hawks' heads at each end, etc. These objects are n= ow in the Cairo Museum. (1902b1)

Aahhotep. "Peace of Aah, or the Moon." The queen of Kames, king of Egypt, and mother of Aahmes= , the first monarch of the XVIIIth dynasty. Her golden jewellery at the Museum of Boulaq is the chef d'oeuvre of Egyptian art, and is unequalled for elegance by anything except the Etrus= can goldwork. (1876c1)

$H Aah-hetep II.= Egypt

She was the daughter of Queen Nefertari and Aahmes I., and wife of Amen-hetep I. (Dynasty XVIII.). (1902b1)

Aahhotep. = The wife or cons= ort of Amenhotep= I., of the XVIIIth dynasty. (1876c1)

$H Aahhotep. See Aah-hetep<= /span> (1876c1)

$H Aahlu. See Aalu. (1876c1)

$H Aahmas. Egypt

The queen-consort of Thothmes I. of the XVIIIth dynasty. (187= 6c1)

A royal nu= n, or Pallacide, in the reign of Ame= nhotep I. of the XVIIIth dynasty. (187= 6c1)

$H Aahmer. Egypt

The Pehu, or frontier town of the ninth nome of Lower Egypt. (1876c1)

$H Aahmes. Egypt

Aahmes. "Born of the Moon," or "Moon-born." An early Egyptian proper name. It is sometimes written, but wrongly, with one A; and was by Dr. Leemans and the Dutch Egyptologists transcribed as Oohmes, which see. (1876c1)

Aahmes. A = great Egyptian naval officer and general, under Aahmes, the first king of the XVIIIth dynasty. He was born at Eilethyia, and defeated the Hykshos fleet= on the waters of Tanis, now Lake Menzaleh. He was honourably rewarded by the king, and three times received the askh, or collar of gold, as an official acknowledgment of his bravery. (1876c1)

Aahmes. The son of King Aahmes I.= , of the XVIIth or XVIIIth dynasty. (1876c1)

Aahmes. The brother of Antef, a great Egyptian governor and commander, in the XIIth dynasty, which see. (1876c1)

Aahmes. An architect or superintendent of public works, in the reign of an unnamed k= ing of the XVIIIth dynasty. (1876c1)

Aahmes. A = scribe of the royal treasury. Period uncertain. (1876c1)

Oohmes. Or Aahmes. An Egyptian priest a= nd officer, whose monument is in the Leyden Museum. Period uncertain. (1876c1)<= /span>

$H Aahmes I. Egypt

<= /b> Neb-pehti-Ra. First king of Dynasty XVIII., cir. 1587 B.C. Nefert-ari was his queen, and he had by her six children. Aahme= s began the great war of independence which resulted in the expulsion of th= e Hyksos. He captured their capital Hat-uart (<= span class=3DSpellE>Tanis?) and drove them into the Palestine desert= . He then subjugated the Mentiu, or Bedawin. Turning south he went up the Nile to <= span class=3DSpellE>Semneh and repelled the Ethiopians. The body of Aahmes, in a fair state of preservation, is in the = Cairo Museum. He appears to have died = in the prime of life. (1902b1)

The son of Kames, king of Thebes. He completed the expulsion and subjugation of the Hykshos invaders, and was = the first king of the XVIIIth dynasty. He carried= on several other wars, and subdued the Nubians of Ethiopia, taking to wife t= heir Princess Nofretari. This union gave rise to t= he claims of the Egyptian kings to the crown of Nubia. Aahmes re-established the original worship of the g= ods, opened the country up to commerce, and made public roads throughout the empire. He reigned more than twenty-two years. The horse and wheeled char= iot were first used in his reign. (1876c1)

$H = Aahmes II. See Aahmes se-Nit (1876c1)

$H Aahmes Mitamun. Egypt

The sister of Amenhotep I., of the XVIIIth dynasty. (1876c1)

$H Aahmes Nebttu. Egypt

A daughter of Amenhotep I., of the XVIIIth dynasty. (1876c1)

$H Aahmes-Nefert-ari. Egypt [See Nefert-ari – Editor]

$H Aahmes Pennebenut. Egypt

A subordinate prince, in the reign of Amenhotep II.,= of the XVIIIth dynasty. (1876c1)

$H Aahmes Sipiri. Egypt

A son of King Amenhotep I., of the XVIIIth dynasty. (1876c1)

$H = Aahmes se-Nit or Aahmes II= . Egypt

Aahmes se-Nit, <= span lang=3DDE>Khnem-ab-Ra , Amasis II., Dynasty XXVI., B.C. 572-528.= He married the princess Ankhs-en-Ra-Nefert, daughter of Psammetichus II. This Pharaoh encouraged commercial enterprise by opening Naukratis (q.v.) to Greek traders both as a free port and as a place of settlement. He also conquered Cyprus, and made an alliance with Croesus, king of Lydia, in the hope of stemm= ing the tide of Persian invasion. (1902b1)

Aahmes II. = The son of a humble family: he was a native of the city of Siouph. He was an officer in the cour= t of Uahprahet, king of Egypt, who sent him to quell an outbreak among the people. He acquitted himself = with so much address, that he was unanimously crowned king in the place of his master, who was deposed, and though at first treated with consideration by Aahmes, was yet finally strangled in prison, to appease the wrath of the people. Anxious to consolidate his right to the throne, Aahmes married Anknas, the daughter of Psametek II., of the Saite dynasty. He made peace with the Cyrenians, and took to wife also Ladike, the daughter of Kritoboulos, the Cyrenian. He cultivated the arts of merchandise and agri= culture with much success, and was universally beloved by his people. Towards the close of his reign, the Persians under Cambyses, sought for a pretext to enter Egypt, and they found it at last in the policy of Aahmes, whose daughter was demanded in marriage by the Persian monarch. The king of Egypt, unwilling to degrade= his only child to the condition of a secondary wife, sent instead of her Nite= tis, the daughter-in-law of his predecessor, Uahprahet, and the last descendan= t of Psametik I. When Cambyses discovered this fraud, he prepared for the inva= sion of and conquest of Egypt; but ere his armies reached the Delta Aahmes died, after a long reign of forty-five years. He was the Amasis of the Greeks. Aahmes II. was succeed= ed by his son, Psametik III., in whose reign the final conquest of Egypt took place" after which the empire ceased till the time of the Ptolemies, under the Roman suzerainty.

$H Aahmu. Egypt

A Syrian people, who took refuge in Egypt= in the XIIth dynasty, and who were for some time considere= d by Egyptologists to have been really the patriarch Jacob and his family. (1876c1)

$H Aahnaru. Egypt

A name of the Egyptian Hades, the same as = Aahlu, in the CXLIXth c= hapter of the Ritual of the Dead. (1876c1)

$H Aahnt. Egypt

The Egyptian name of an unidentified town. (1876c1)

$H Aahotep. Egypt

Aahotep. "Great peace," or "Peace of Aah," (the Moon). The daughter of an early Egyptian king; but of what king it is not known. See also Aahhotep. (1876c1)

$H Aahtb. Egypt

An unidentified Egyptian district. (1876c1= )

$H Aai. Egypt

An Egyptian captain in the XIXth dynasty, probably under Ramesis II. His wife'= s name was Uernara. (1876c1)

$H Aaket. Egypt

An unidentified ancient Egyptian town, in = the reign of King Assa-Tatkera. (1876c1)

$H Aakheperka. <= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Egypt

The armour-bea= rer of Thothmes<= /span> I., of the XVIIIth dynasty. (1876c1)

$H Aalek. Egypt

The Egyptian name of the Island of Philae, in Upper Egypt (1876c1)

$H Aalim. Egypt

Aalim. "The Fish Town." The Egyptian name for the town of Elim, which is often mentioned in Hebrew history. (1876c1)

$H Aaltaai. Egypt

The Egyptian name of a town in Palestine, which= is now called Tell Arad. (1876c1)<= /p>

$H Aalu. Egypt

Aalu. The Egyptian name of an unidentified town. (18= 76c1)

Aahlu. The Egyptian name for the plains of Elysium, = of which the valley of Balot formed a= part. (1876c1)

Aalu, Fields of. In the legend of = the “Destruction of Mankind,” found in the tomb of Seti I. and elsewhere, we learn how that Ra, tired of ruling disobedient people on ea= rth, retired to the sky. “His desire was fulfilled, and having reached t= he upper regions, he inspected the territory which he had there chosen for h= is own, declared his purpose of gathering many men about him in it, and crea= ted for their future accommodation the various divisions of the heavenly worl= d. His majesty spake: ‘Let there be set a great field,’ and there appeared the Field of Rest; ‘I will gather plants in it,’ and there appeared the Field of Aaru<= /i> (Aalu), ‘Therein do I gather as its inhabitants things which hang f= rom heaven, even the stars’” (Erman). It was to this part of the divine world that souls made their way on the death of the body. The “Book of the Dead” speaks of it as “the field which produced the divine harvests,” which the blessed departed spent the= ir time in harvesting. The barley here grew to seven cubits in height. The fields of Aalu were surrounded by a wall of iron, broken by several doors, and traversed by a river; the ways which led to it were mysterious. The i= dea has been compared to the Greek Elysian fields. (1902b1)=

$H Aaluna. Egypt

The Egyptian name of an unidentified town = in Palestine. (1876= c1)

Another name of the Egyptian Elysium. See Aahlu. (1876c1)

$H Aam. Egypt

One of the mystical deities of the Egyptian Ritual of the Dead. (1876c1)

$H Aamater. Egypt

The Egyptian name of an unidentified town. (1876c1)

$H Aamu. Egypt

Aamu, or Amu. The name given by the Egyptians to the Asiatic tribes inhabiting the= Sinaitic Peninsula, who were probably Sem= ites. They may be seen depicted upon the walls of the tomb of Khnem-hetep II. at Beni Hasan; where they have a distinctly Semitic type of face, are colour= ed yellow, and wear the beard - forbidden to the Egyptians. Their clothes ar= e of a shape and colour peculiar to themselves. (1902b1)

Aamu. An Asiatic people contiguous to Egypt, who were first subdu= ed by King Pepimerira, of the VIth dynasty, and repeatedly attacked afterwards = by the later kings. (1876c1)

Aamu. "People." An Egyptian word, applied indiscriminately to any of the Sem= itic nations or tribes with whom they were at war. It was derived from the Sem= itic noun "am," which me= ans "people" also. (1876c1)

$H Aanebs. Egypt

An Egyptian city, situated near the site of the modern Damietta, in the Delta. (1876c1)

$H Aanefer. Egypt

The Egyptian name of an unidentified town. (1876c1)

$H Aanekhtou. Egypt

The name of an Egyptian workman, who was punished for swearing "by the life, the august," which were the titles of Pharaoh. (1876c1)

$H Aanen. Egypt

A town in the Memphite nome; possibly the same as Tanen, which see. (1876c= 1)

$H Aanhu. Egypt

A class of Egyptian workmen. (1876c1)=

$H Aani. Egypt

The Egyptian name for cynoceph= alus (q.v.). (1902b1)

$H Aa-n-pa. Egypt

An Egyptian official title, generally rend= ered "chief of the house," or major-domo. (1876c1)=

$H Aansa. Egypt

The Egyptian name of a country at present unidentified. (1876c1)

$H Aape. Egypt

Another form of the name of the Egyptian t= own called Panopolis by the Greeks.(1876c1)<= /o:p>

$H Aar<= /span>. Egypt [Now usually spelled Earu - Editor]

Aar or Aarou, Egypt. A plain in a supraterrestrial region, which corresponded, with the Egyptians, to the Elysian Fields of the Greeks and= the Asgard of Scandinavian mythology. (1883m1)

$H Aara. Egypt

The Egyptian name of the town called by the Greeks, Heliopolis. (1876c1)

$H Aarert. Egypt

The Egyptian name of an unidentified town. (1876c1)

$H Aarkark. Egypt

The Egyptian name of a people in Nubia. (1876c1)

$H Aarou. See Aar. (1883m1)

$H Aas. Egypt

A mystical deity of the Egyptian Ritual of= the Dead. (1876c1)

$H Aasaa. Egypt

The Egyptian name of an unidentified Asiat= ic country. (1876c1)

$H Aasena. Egypt

An unidentified Egyptian (?) town. (1876c1= )

$H Aash. Egypt

The name of a mystical deity, in the XCVth chapter of the Ritual of the Dead. (1876c1)

$H Aaskhau. Egypt

The Egyptian name of the town called by the Greeks, Xois. (1876c1)

$H Aat. Egypt

An Egyptian adjective, signifying "great"; a frequent prefix to the names of towns and buildings.= The final T is the feminine article. = See also Aa. (1876c1)

$H Aataat. Egypt

Aataat. "Great House." The name of an early Egyptian city, near to the town of Memphis. (1876c1= )

$H Aatab. Egypt

The Egyptian name for the town of Abaton on the Island of Philae. It was sacred to the deity Horus. (1876c1)<= /o:p>

$H Aataka. Egypt

The Egyptian name of an unidentified distr= ict, from whence anciently copper was obtained. (1876c1)

$H Aatam. Egypt

A town in the fourth = nome of Upper Egypt. (1876c1)

$H Aatam. Egypt

The ancient Egyptian name of the town now called Medinet Habu. It is famous for the great palace temple of Rameses III. of the XIXth dynas= ty, a portion of which was afterwards used as a Christian church in the IVth century. (1876c1)

$H Aatefnut. Egypt

Aatefnut<= /span>. "Great Tefnut." The Egyptian name of an unidentified = town, sacred, as its name implies, to the goddess Tefnut. (1876c1)

$H Aatensha. Egypt

Another name of the Egyptian town called <= span class=3DSpellE>Prosopis by the Greeks; it was sacred to the crocodile-headed deity Sebek. (1876c1)

$H Aathakat. Egypt

A town on the Saitic<= /span> branch of the Nile. It was sacred to t= he deity Hapi, the Nile. (1876c1)

$H Aatkabh. Egypt

Another name of the Egyptian town generally called Abu, and by the Greeks, Elephantine. (1876c1)

$H Aatrant. Egypt

A city in Upper Egy= pt, the site of which is unknown. (1876c1)

$H Aatur. Egypt

Another name of the Island of Philae, in Upper Egypt; it was sacred to Osiris and Horus. (1876= c1)

$H Aaturt. Egypt

The Egyptian name of an unidentified count= ry. (1876c1)

$H Aau. Egypt

Aau. "Old One.= " An epithet of Osiris in the LXXVIIIth chapter of the Ritual of the Dead. (1876c1)

$H Aauta. Egypt

The Egyptian name of an unidentified count= ry. (1876c1)