Phoenicians (Greek: Φοίνικες): Greek name of the inhabitants of the ancient cities of Aradus, Tripoli, Byblos, Berytus, Sidon, and Tyre. In the Iron Age, they founded colonies on Cyprus (Kition), on Sicily (Motya, Panormus), in Libya (Lepcis, Oea, Sabratha), in…
Piye: name of a Nubian king (ruled c.741-c.716), famous for conquering Egypt. (The name was also written as Pianchi.)Relatives
Father: Kastha?
Mother: Pebatjna?
First wife: Tabiry, daughter of Alara
Second wife: Abar, daughter of a sister of Alara
Son: Taharqo
Further wives: Peksatar (daughter of Kashta),…
Pliny the Younger or Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62-c.115): Roman senator, nephew of Pliny the Elder, governor of Bithynia-Pontus (109-111), author of a famous collection of letters.
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Triumphal Arch of Titus: the arch in the Circus Maximus in Rome that was erected to celebrate Titus' capture of Jerusalem. It is not the same as the more famous Honorific Arch of Titus on the Velia, overseeing the Roman Forum.
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Samus (Greek:Σάμος): Orontid king in Armenia (r. c.260 BCE)King Samus, who ruled (part of) Armenia, is known from the inscriptions, found on Nemrud Dagi, in which king Antiochus I Theos of Commagene mentions his ancestors. He must be dated in the…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.A3 Seals
A3 Seal a
By Artaxerxes.
A3 Seal b
I am the great king Artaxerxes.
Literature
Pierre Lecoq, Les inscriptions de la Perse…
This is an overview of those ancestors of the emperor Lucius Septimius Severus who were living in Lepcis Magna. The numbers followin the name are based on A.R. Birley, Septimius Severus. The African Emperor (1999³ London), 212-226.Anno (1)
Only known as…