Edda Bresciani
- AMYRTAEUS (II)
AMYRTAEUS (II) (Egyptian Demotic Imn-ir-di-s[w] “The God Ammon has given him”; Aram. ʾmwrtys), King of Egypt, 404-398 B.C., the only…
- ARŠĀMA
ARŠĀMA (Greek Arsámēs, Aramaic ʾršm), name of several Achaemenid notables. It is a compound of aršan “male, hero” and ama…
- EGYPT i. Persians in Egypt in the Achaemenid period
EGYPT i. Persians in Egypt in the Achaemenid period The last pharaoh of the Twenty-Sixth dynasty, Psamtik (Psammetichus) III, was…
- ELEPHANTINE
ELEPHANTINE (Greek version of ancient Egyptian Ibw “the country of the elephants,” Aram. Yb), the largest island in the Nile,…
- DEMOTIC CHRONICLE
DEMOTIC CHRONICLE, Egyptian papyrus document of the early 2nd century B.C.E. (Biblio-thèque Nationale, Paris, Pap. dem. no. 215 v), in…