Execration texts, also referred to as proscription lists, are ancient Egyptian hieratic texts, listing enemies of the pharaoh, most often enemies of the...
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Tel Hazor (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
king Ibni-Addu of Hazor is known. In Egypt, Hazor is mentioned in the execration texts. At Mari (Syria), on the Euphrates River, letters mention Hazor during...
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Mount Hermon (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
in the Bible, appear in Bronze- and Iron-Age texts. in the Egyptian execration texts from the 19th century BC, šrynw (Siryon) is mentioned. The Epic of...
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Curse (redirect from Execration)
A curse (also called an imprecation, malediction, execration, malison, anathema, or commination) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune...
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Anak (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
ʿŪj (the Arabic equivalent of Og) in Islamic tradition. The Egyptian Execration texts of the Middle Kingdom (2055-1650 BC) mention a list of political enemies...
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Anakim (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
of the Anakim mourning after the destruction of Gaza. The Egyptian Execration texts of the Middle Kingdom (2055–1650 BC) mention a list of political enemies...
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settlement near the Gihon Spring. The city is first mentioned in Egyptian execration texts around 2000 BCE as "Rusalimum." By the 17th century BCE, Jerusalem...
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intricate unique pantheon in their own right. Due to the lack of Nubian texts and artifacts prior to their interactions with Egyptians, much of early...
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Curse tablet (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
centres for finds of Latin defixiones. In Ancient Egypt, so-called "Execration Texts" appear around the time of the 12th Dynasty, listing the names of enemies...
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Dan (ancient city) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
Egyptians cursed Laish in execration texts written during the Middle Kingdom. It has been speculated that the repetition in such texts of formulas from older...
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Jerusalem (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
Yerushalayim refers to the fact that the city initially sat on two hills. The Execration Texts of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (c. 19th century BCE), which refer to...
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Salem (Bible) (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
identification of Salem with Jerusalem. Cargill argues that early texts such as Egyptian execration texts (c. 1800 BCE) and Amarna letters (c. 1400 BCE) consistently...
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Ascalon (category Articles containing uncoded-language text)
records is in the Egyptian Execration Texts from the time of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt (20th–19th centuries BCE). These texts were written on red pots...
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Nephilim (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
who are associated with the Nephilim, are mentioned in the Egyptian Execration texts of the Middle Kingdom (2055–1650 BC) as one of Egypt's political enemies...
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Yam (god) (category Articles containing Ugaritic-language text)
sources do not mention Yam. Yam was also known in ancient Egypt. In the execration texts, dated to the reign of the Twelfth Dynasty, theophoric names of foreigners...
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are from ANET and COS and link to editio princeps (EP), if known. Execration texts – earliest references to many Biblical locations Papyrus Brooklyn 35...
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Acre, Israel (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
be recorded in Egyptian hieroglyphs, probably being the ʿKY in the execration texts from around 1800 BC. The Akkadian cuneiform Amarna letters also mention...
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Nubia (category Articles with imported Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 text)
"royal" graves were much larger in Kush than Shaat and Egyptian texts other than the Execration lists only refer to Kush (and not Shaat).: 38–39 C-group Nubians...
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"Natural Liberation of Fear Through the Ritual Deception of Death" "Execration Text" "Wind of Horus" "Invocation to Seditious Heresy" "The Burning Pits...
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Shutu (category Articles lacking in-text citations from October 2018)
that "Shutu" may be a variant of the Egyptian term Shasu. An Egyptian execration text of the 17th century BCE refers to an "Ayyab" (possibly a variant form...
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Damnatio memoriae (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
Forced disappearance Historical negationism Iconoclasm Execration texts List of tombs of antipopes Mass shooting contagion#"Don't Name Them"...
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Kingdom of Kush (category Articles containing Coptic-language text)
attack the town. Aksum's presence in Nubia was likely short-lived. Meroitic texts from as early as the 1st century BC hint to conflicts with the Noba, who...
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Peasant Wikimedia Commons has media related to 12th dynasty of Egypt. Execration texts History of Ancient Egypt Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt family tree Arnold...
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Eunuch (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
reading public proclamations. The four-thousand-year-old Egyptian Execration Texts threaten enemies in Nubia and Asia, specifically referencing "all males...
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Ashteroth Karnaim (category Articles containing Biblical Hebrew-language text)
Ashtaroth, a city mentioned in several ancient Egypt sources: the Execration texts, Amarna letters (mid-14th century BCE) and the campaign list of Ramesses...
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indicated by a change in placenames for Upper Nubia used in Egyptian execration texts. However, Cooper also proposes that a similar Eastern Sudanic language...
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always depicted as a lioness with solar disk and a uraeus symbol. Coffin texts associate her with being a tutelary and solar deity. Some sources identify...
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the area of Alalah) was the Amorite solar deity. Some names in the Execration texts mention Shamshu, not necessarily as a female deity ("š-m-šw ì-p-ì-ìrì-m"...
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In Their Darkened Shrines (category Album articles lacking alt text for covers)
Candlemass, from their album Nightfall. Music videos were made for "Execration Text" and "Sarcophagus". All tracks written by Karl Sanders except where...
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Timeline of Jerusalem (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
the city, using the name Rušalimum, in the Middle Kingdom Egyptian Execration texts; although the identification of Rušalimum as Jerusalem has been challenged...
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