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Karl Richard Lepsius

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Karl or Carl Richard Lepsius (23 December 1810– 10 July 1884) was a pioneering Prussian Egyptologist and linguist and pioneer of modern archaeology. [1]

167 relations: Abar (Queen), Abydos Dynasty, Afroasiatic languages, Akoris, Egypt, Aktisanes, Albanian alphabet, Amanitenmemide, Amara, Nubia, Amarna, Ancient Egyptian units of measurement, August Wilmanns, Auguste Mariette, Édouard Naville, Bakenrenef (vizier), Berlin State Library, Bernard Bruyère, Bernardino Drovetti, Bernhard Klein, Book of the Dead, Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten, Charles Herbert Cottrell, Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen, Click letter, Coinage of the Social War (91–88 BC), Commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb, December 23, Decree of Canopus, Deir el-Shelwit, Desiderius Lenz, Dispute between a man and his Ba, Double Pyramid, Editio princeps, Egyptian Museum, Egyptian Museum of Berlin, Egyptian pyramids, Egyptian Revival architecture in the British Isles, Egyptology, Exploration of the Valley of the Kings, Gebel el-Silsila, Georg Ebers, George Fisk Comfort, Gisr el-Mudir, Giuseppe Ferlini, Great Karnak Inscription, Hamites, Hamlet's Mill, Hawara, Headless Pyramid, Heinrich Abeken, History of archaeology, ..., Huni, Igbo language, Index of ancient Egypt-related articles, Index of Egypt-related articles, Index of modern Egypt-related articles, Indo-Semitic languages, Iset Ta-Hemdjert, Izi language, James William Wild, Jean-François Champollion, , Johann Jakob Frey, Johannes Dümichen, Johannes Lepsius, Joseph Bonomi the Younger, Karabel relief, Karl Vollers, Karnak king list, Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, KV10, KV20, KV3, KV7, Languages of Africa, Layer Pyramid, Leavitt Hunt, Lepsius, Lepsius list of pyramids, Lepsius XXIV, List of creators of writing systems, List of Egyptologists, List of linguists, List of recipients of the Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts, Mastaba of Seshemnefer, Mastabat al-Fir’aun, Maya (treasurer), Meanings of minor planet names: 55001–56000, Medinet Habu king list, Meidum, Members of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Memphis, Egypt, Menes, Menkauhor Kaiu, Mentuhotep III, Meroë, Merytre-Hatshepsut, Metjen, Minor tombs in the Valley of the Kings, Musawwarat es-Sufra, Naqa, Nathaniel Schmidt, Naumburg, Nebankh, Neferhotep I, Neferneferuaten, Nerikare, Niger–Congo languages, Nikaure, Nilo-Saharan languages, Nobiin language, Nubian languages, Nyuserre Ini, Palm (unit), Paranilotic languages, Pehenuikai, Persenet, Polyglotta Africana, Ptahshepses, Pyramid of Ity, Pyramid of Khendjer, Pyramid of Merenre, Pyramid of Neferefre, Pyramid of Neferirkare, Pyramid of Nyuserre, Pyramid of Sahure, Pyramid of Senusret II, Pyramid of Unas, Pyramid of Userkaf, Qakare Ibi, QV80, Racism, Ramesses VII, Ramesses X, Ramesses XI, Ramesseum king list, Rashepses, Reinhold Lepsius, Royal Gold Medal, Shepseskaf, Sitre, Smenkhkare, Soleb, Standard Alphabet by Lepsius, Sun temple of Userkaf, Tanedjemet, Tanis, Thutmose I, Tomb A.6, TT223, TT390, TT391, TT57, TT71, TT8, TT93, Tyti, Unfinished Northern Pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan, Wad ban Naqa, Wadi Maghareh, Westcar Papyrus, Wilhelm Bleek, WVA, Zuma, Sudan, 1842 in archaeology, 1844 in archaeology, 1849 in archaeology, 1869 in architecture. Expand index (117 more) »

Abar (Queen)

Abar was a Nubian queen of the Kingdom of Kush dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.

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Abydos Dynasty

The Abydos Dynasty is hypothesized to have been a short-lived local dynasty ruling over parts of Middle and Upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period in Ancient Egypt.

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Afroasiatic languages

Afroasiatic (Afro-Asiatic), also known as Afrasian and traditionally as Hamito-Semitic (Chamito-Semitic) or Semito-Hamitic, is a large language family of about 300 languages and dialects.

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Akoris, Egypt

Akoris (Egyptian: Mer-nefer(et) (Old and Middle Kingdoms), Per-Imen-mat-khent(j) (New Kingdom), or Dehenet (since 26th dynasty) is the Greek name for the modern Egyptian village of (Arabic طهنا الجبل), located about 12 km north of Al Minya. The ancient site is situated in the southeast of the modern village.

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Aktisanes

Aktisanes is a Nubian king who is mentioned by the Greek historian Hecataeus of Abdera.

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Albanian alphabet

The Albanian alphabet (alfabeti shqip) is a variant of the Latin alphabet used to write the Albanian language.

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Amanitenmemide

Amanitenmemide was a Nubian king whose throne name was Nebmaatre.

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Amara, Nubia

Amara, usually distinguished as Amara East and Amara West, is the modern name of an ancient Egyptian city in Nubia, in what today is Sudan.

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Amarna

Amarna (al-ʿamārnah) is an extensive Egyptian archaeological site that represents the remains of the capital city newly established and built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty, and abandoned shortly after his death (1332 BC).

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Ancient Egyptian units of measurement

The ancient Egyptian units of measurement are those used by the dynasties of ancient Egypt prior to its incorporation in the Roman Empire and general adoption of Roman, Greek, and Byzantine units of measurement.

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August Wilmanns

August Wilmanns (25 March 1833, Vegesack – 27 October 1917, Berlin) was a German classical philologist and librarian.

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Auguste Mariette

François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (11 February 182118 January 1881) was a French scholar, archaeologist and Egyptologist, and founder of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities (later Supreme Council of Antiquities).

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Édouard Naville

Henri Édouard Naville (14 June 1844 – 17 October 1926) was a Swiss archaeologist, Egyptologist and Biblical scholar.

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Bakenrenef (vizier)

Bakenrenef or Bakenranef was an ancient Egyptian Vizier of the North (Lower Egypt) during the reign of Psamtik I (664 – 610 BC) of the 26th Dynasty.

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Berlin State Library

The Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; officially abbreviated as SBB, colloquially Stabi) is a universal library in Berlin, Germany and a property of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.

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Bernard Bruyère

Bernard Bruyère (born November 10, 1879 in Besancon, died December 4, 1971 in Chatou) was a French Egyptologist.

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Bernardino Drovetti

Bernardino Michele Maria Drovetti (January 7, 1776 – March 5, 1852) was an Italian antiquities collector, diplomat, and politician.

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Bernhard Klein

Bernhard Joseph Klein (6 March 1793 – 9 September 1832) was a German composer.

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Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text, used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE) to around 50 BCE.

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Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten

The Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten are a group of royal monuments in Upper Egypt.

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Charles Herbert Cottrell

Charles Herbert Cottrell (27 November 1806 – 9 November 1860) was an Englishman who travelled to Siberia in 1840-41, produced an account of the experience, and translated plays and non-fiction works from German to English.

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Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen

Christian Charles or Karl Josias von Bunsen (25 August 1791 – 28 November 1860), also known as, was a German diplomat and scholar.

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Click letter

Various letters have been used to write the click consonants of southern Africa.

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Coinage of the Social War (91–88 BC)

The family of Social War coinage include all the coins issued by the Italic allies of the Marsic confederation, Marsi, Peligni, Piceni, Vestini, Samnites, Frentani, Marrucini, and Lucani, during the Social War (91-88 BC) against Rome.

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Commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb

The commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb are a group of over 20 inscriptions and rock reliefs carved into the limestone rocks around the estuary of the Nahr al-Kalb (Dog River) in Lebanon, just north of Beirut.

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December 23

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Decree of Canopus

The Decree of Canopus is a trilingual inscription in three scripts, which dates from the Ptolemaic period of Ancient Egypt.

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Deir el-Shelwit

Deir el-Shelwit (Arabic: دير الشلويط – Dayr aš-Šalwīṭ, French: Deir ChelouitChristiane M. Zivie: Le temple du Deir Chelouit, Cairo, IFAO, 1992.) is an ancient Egyptian temple to Isis from the Greco-Roman period.

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Desiderius Lenz

Peter Lenz (1832–1928), afterwards Desiderius Lenz, was a German artist who became a Benedictine monk and together with Gabriel Wüger was a founder of the Beuron Art School.

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Dispute between a man and his Ba

The Dispute between a man and his Ba or The Debate Between a Man and his Soul is an ancient Egyptian text dating to the Middle Kingdom about a man deeply unhappy with his life.

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Double Pyramid

The Double Pyramid also known as Lepsius XXV designates a pair of adjacent monuments located on the south-eastern edge of the Abusir necropolis, south of the pyramid Lepsius XXIV and of the pyramid of Khentkaus II.

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Editio princeps

In classical scholarship, the editio princeps (plural: editiones principes) of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts, which could be circulated only after being copied by hand.

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Egyptian Museum

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum or Museum of Cairo, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities.

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Egyptian Museum of Berlin

The Egyptian Museum of Berlin (Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung) is home to one of the world's most important collections of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, including the iconic Nefertiti Bust.

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Egyptian pyramids

The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt.

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Egyptian Revival architecture in the British Isles

Egyptian Revival architecture in the British Isles is a survey of motifs derived from Ancient Egyptian sources occurring as an architectural style.

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Egyptology

Egyptology (from Egypt and Greek -λογία, -logia. علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD.

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Exploration of the Valley of the Kings

The area of the Valley of the Kings, in Luxor, Egypt, has been a major area of modern Egyptological exploration for the last two centuries.

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Gebel el-Silsila

Gebel el-Silsila or Gebel Silsileh (Arabic: جبل السلسلة - Jabal al-Silsila or Ǧabal as-Silsila - "Chain of Mountains" or "Series of Mountains"; Egyptian: ẖny, Khenyt,Kitchen (1983). Kheny or Khenu - "The Place of Rowing"; German: Dschabal as-Silsila - "Ruderort", or "Ort des Ruderns" - "Place of Rowing"; Italian: Gebel Silsila - "Monte della Catena" - "Upstream Mountain Chain") is 65 km north of Aswan in Upper Egypt, where the cliffs on both sides close to the narrowest point along the length of the entire Nile.

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Georg Ebers

Georg Moritz Ebers (Berlin, March 1, 1837 – Tutzing, Bavaria, August 7, 1898), German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca. 1550 BCE, named for him (see Ebers Papyrus) at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873–74.

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George Fisk Comfort

George Fisk Comfort (September 20, 1833 – May 5, 1910) was a 19th-century American scholar and art exponent, and founder of both the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, and Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY.

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Gisr el-Mudir

Gisr el-Mudir (Arabic:جسر المدير, "bridge of the chief") also known as the Great Enclosure, is the oldest known stone structure in Egypt, located at Saqqara only a few hundred metres west of the Step Pyramid and the Buried Pyramid.

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Giuseppe Ferlini

Giuseppe Ferlini (April 23, 1797 – December 30, 1870Inscription from his gravestone in the Certosa di Bologna (see picture).) was an Italian combat medic turned explorer and treasure hunter, well known for having raided and vandalized several pyramids of Meroë.

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Great Karnak Inscription

The Great Karnak Inscription is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic inscription belonging to the 19th dynasty Pharaoh Merneptah.

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Hamites

Hamites (from the biblical Ham) is a historical term in ethnology and linguistics for a division of the Caucasian race and the group of related languages these populations spoke.

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Hamlet's Mill

Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth (first published by Gambit, Boston, 1969) by Giorgio de Santillana (a professor of the history of science at MIT) and Hertha von Dechend (a scientist at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität) is a nonfiction work of history and comparative mythology, particularly the subfield of archaeoastronomy.

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Hawara

Hawara is an archaeological site of Ancient Egypt, south of the site of Crocodilopolis ('Arsinoe', also known as 'Medinet al-Faiyum') at the entrance to the depression of the Fayyum oasis.

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Headless Pyramid

The Headless Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian pyramid in Saqqara.

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Heinrich Abeken

Heinrich Abeken (August 19, 1809August 8, 1872) was a German theologian and Prussian Privy Legation Councillor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin.

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History of archaeology

Archaeology is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts (also known as eco-facts) and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record).

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Huni

Huni (original reading unknown) was an ancient Egyptian king and the last pharaoh of the 3rd dynasty during the Old Kingdom period.

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Igbo language

Igbo (Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh), is the principal native language of the Igbo people, an ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria.

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Index of ancient Egypt-related articles

Articles related to ancient Egypt include.

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Index of Egypt-related articles

Articles related to Egypt include.

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Index of modern Egypt-related articles

Articles related to Modern Egypt include.

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Indo-Semitic languages

The Indo-Semitic hypothesis maintains that a genetic relationship exists between Indo-European and Semitic and that the Indo-European and the Semitic language families descend from a prehistoric language ancestral to them both.

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Iset Ta-Hemdjert

Iset Ta-Hemdjert or Isis Ta-Hemdjert, simply called Isis in her tomb, was an Ancient Egyptian queen of the twentieth dynasty; the Great Royal Wife of Ramesses III and the Royal Mother of Ramesses VI.

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Izi language

Izi (Izii, Izzi) is an Igbo language spoken in Ebonyi state in Nigeria.

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James William Wild

James William Wild (9 March 1814 – 7 November 1892) was a British architect.

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Jean-François Champollion

Jean-François Champollion (Champollion le jeune; 23 December 17904 March 1832) was a French scholar, philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology.

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J̌ (minuscule: ǰ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from J with the addition of a háček.

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Johann Jakob Frey

Johann Jakob Frey (27 January 1813 - 30 September 1865), a Swiss landscape painter, a native of Basle, studied principally in Italy, and his views of that country are much valued.

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Johannes Dümichen

Johannes Dümichen (15 October 1833, Weißholz bei Großglogau7 February 1894, Strasbourg) was a German Egyptologist.

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Johannes Lepsius

Johannes Lepsius (15 December 1858, Potsdam, Germany – 3 February 1926, Meran, Italy) was a German Protestant missionary, Orientalist, and humanist with a special interest in trying to prevent the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

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Joseph Bonomi the Younger

Joseph Bonomi the Younger (9 October 1796 – 3 March 1878) was an English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator.

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Karabel relief

The Hittite / Luwian Karabel relief is a rock relief in the pass of the same name, between Torbalı und Kemalpaşa, about 20 km from Izmir in Turkey.

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Karl Vollers

Karl Vollers (March 19, 1857, Hooksiel (Oldenburg) – January 5, 1909) was a German orientalist.

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Karnak king list

Drawing of the list in 1843The Karnak king list, a list of early Egyptian kings engraved in stone, was located in the southwest corner of the Festival Hall of Thutmose III, in the middle of the Precinct of Amun-Re, in the Karnak Temple Complex, in modern Luxor, Egypt.

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Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie

Kenneth Robert Henderson Mackenzie (31 October 1833 – 3 July 1886) was an English linguist, orientalist and autodidact.

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KV10

Tomb KV10, located in the Valley of the Kings near the modern-day Egyptian city of Luxor, was cut and decorated for the burial of Pharaoh Amenmesse of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

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KV20

KV20 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings (Egypt).

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KV3

Tomb KV3, located in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, was intended for the burial of an unidentified son of Pharaoh Ramesses III during the early part of the Twentieth Dynasty.

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KV7

Tomb KV7 in the Valley of the Kings was the final resting place of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great") of the Nineteenth Dynasty.

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Languages of Africa

The languages of Africa are divided into six major language families.

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Layer Pyramid

The Layer Pyramid (known locally in Arabic as el haram el midawwar, الهرم المدور, meaning 'rubble-hill pyramid') is a ruined step pyramid dating to the 3rd Dynasty of Egypt (2686 BC to 2613 BC) and located in the necropolis of Zawyet El Aryan.

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Leavitt Hunt

Col. Leavitt Hunt (1831–February 16, 1907) was a Harvard-educated attorney and photography pioneer who was one of the first people to photograph the Middle East.

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Lepsius

Lepsius is a German surname, and may refer to.

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Lepsius list of pyramids

The Lepsius list of pyramids is a list of sixty-seven Ancient Egyptian pyramids established in 1842–1843 by Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884), an Egyptologist and leader of the "Prussian expedition to Egypt" from 1842 until 1846.

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Lepsius XXIV

The Lepsius XXIV Pyramid is an Egyptian pyramid, which was probably built for a wife of King Nyuserre Ini.

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List of creators of writing systems

This is an alphabetical list of any individuals, legendary or real, who are purported by traditions to have invented alphabets or other writing systems, whether this is proven or not.

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List of Egyptologists

This is a partial list of Egyptologists.

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List of linguists

A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics).

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List of recipients of the Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts

This is a list of recipients of the Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste), a German and formerly Prussian honor given since 1842 for achievement in the humanities, sciences, or arts.

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Mastaba of Seshemnefer

The Mastaba of Seshemnefer IV is a mastaba tomb in Cemetery GIS of the Giza Necropolis in Egypt.

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Mastabat al-Fir’aun

The Mastabat al-Fir’aun (d, also referred to in Egyptological literature as the Mastaba el-Faraun, Mastabat el-Faraun orMastabat Faraun, and meaning "Bench of the Pharaoh") is the grave monument of the ancient Egyptian king Shepseskaf, the last king of the Fourth Dynasty documented to date.

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Maya (treasurer)

Maya was an important figure during the reign of Pharaohs Tutankhamun, Ay and Horemheb of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 55001–56000

212 | 55212 Yukitoayatsuji || || Yukito Ayatsuji is the pen name of Naoyuki Uchida (born 1960), a Japanese writer of horror and mystery.

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Medinet Habu king list

The memorial temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu contains a minor list of pharaohs of the New Kingdom of Egypt.

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Meidum

Meidum, Maydum or Maidum (ميدوم) is an archaeological site in Lower Egypt.

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Members of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art

Members of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, awarded to acknowledge and reward excellent and outstanding achievements in the fields of science and art.

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Memphis, Egypt

Memphis (مَنْف; ⲙⲉⲙϥⲓ; Μέμφις) was the ancient capital of Aneb-Hetch, the first nome of Lower Egypt.

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Menes

Menes (mnj, probably pronounced *; Μήνης) was a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt and as the founder of the First Dynasty.

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Menkauhor Kaiu

Menkauhor Kaiu (also known as Ikauhor and in Greek as Mencherês, Μεγχερῆς) was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Old Kingdom period.

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Mentuhotep III

Sankhkare Mentuhotep III (also Montuhotep III) of the Eleventh dynasty was Pharaoh of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom.

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Meroë

Meroë (also spelled Meroe; Meroitic: Medewi or Bedewi; Arabic: مرواه and مروى Meruwi; Ancient Greek: Μερόη, Meróē) is an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum.

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Merytre-Hatshepsut

Queen Merytre-Hatshepsut (or sometimes Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra) was the principal wife of Pharaoh Thutmose III and the mother of Amenhotep II.

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Metjen

Metjen (also read as Methen) was an Ancient Egyptian high official at the transition time from 3rd dynasty to 4th dynasty.

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Minor tombs in the Valley of the Kings

The majority of the 65 numbered tombs in the Valley of the Kings can be considered as being minor tombs, either because at present they have yielded little information or because the results of their investigation was only poorly recorded by their explorers, while some have received very little attention or were only cursorily noted.

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Musawwarat es-Sufra

Musawwarat es-Sufra (Arabic:المصورات الصفراء, Meroitic: Aborepi, Old Egyptian: jbrp, jpbr-ˁnḫ), also known as Al-Musawarat Al-Sufra, is a large Meroitic temple complex in modern Sudan, dating back to the 3rd century BC.

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Naqa

Naqa or Naga'a (An-Naqʿah) is a ruined ancient city of the Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë in modern-day Sudan.

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Nathaniel Schmidt

Nathaniel Schmidt (May 22, 1862 – June 29, 1939) of Ithaca, New York, was a Swedish American Baptist minister, progressive Democrat, educator and orientalist.

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Naumburg

Naumburg is a town in (and the administrative capital of) the district Burgenlandkreis, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Nebankh

Nebankh was an ancient Egyptian official of the Thirteenth Dynasty.

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Neferhotep I

Khasekhemre Neferhotep I was an Egyptian pharaoh of the mid Thirteenth Dynasty ruling in the second half of the 18th century BCK.S.B. Ryholt: The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800–1550 BC, Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol.

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Neferneferuaten

Ankhkheperure-mery-Neferkheperure/ -mery-Waenre/ -mery-Aten Neferneferuaten was a name used to refer to either Meritaten or, more likely, Nefertiti.

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Nerikare

Nerikare was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 13th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period.

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Niger–Congo languages

The Niger–Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers and number of distinct languages.

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Nikaure

Nikaure was an ancient Egyptian prince and vizier during the 4th dynasty.

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Nilo-Saharan languages

The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet.

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Nobiin language

Nobiin, or Mahas, is a Northern Nubian language of the Nilo-Saharan phylum.

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Nubian languages

The Nubian languages (لغات نوبية) are a group of related languages spoken by the Nubians of Nubia, a region along the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan.

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Nyuserre Ini

Nyuserre Ini (also Niuserre Ini or Neuserre Ini; in Greek known as Rathurês, ´Ραθούρης) was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the sixth ruler of the Fifth Dynasty during the Old Kingdom period.

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Palm (unit)

The palm is an obsolete anthropic unit of length, originally based on the width of the human palm and then variously standardized.

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Paranilotic languages

Paranilotic is a group of languages proposed by Carl Meinhof.

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Pehenuikai

Pehenuikai was an Ancient Egyptian official of the Fifth Dynasty.

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Persenet

Persenet (Personet, Per-sent) was an ancient Egyptian queen consort of the 4th dynasty.

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Polyglotta Africana

Polyglotta Africana is an 1854 study by the German missionary Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle, in which the author compares 156 African languages (or about 120 according to today's classification; several varieties considered distinct by Koelle were later shown to belong to the same language).

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Ptahshepses

Ptahshepses (meaning "Ptah is foremost") was the vizier and son-in-law of the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Nyuserre Ini.

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Pyramid of Ity

The Pyramid of Ity was probably the tomb of Pharaoh who reigned during the 8th dynasty.

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Pyramid of Khendjer

The Pyramid of Khendjer was a pyramid built for the burial of the 13th dynasty pharaoh Khendjer, who ruled Egypt c. 1760 BC during the Second Intermediate Period.

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Pyramid of Merenre

The burial pyramid of Pharaoh Merenre was constructed during the Egyptian sixth dynasty at Saqqara to the south-west of the pyramid of Pepi I and a similar distance to the pyramid of Djedkare.

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Pyramid of Neferefre

The Pyramid of Neferefre, also known as the Pyramid of Raneferef, is an unfinished Egyptian pyramid from the Fifth Dynasty, located in the necropolis of Abusir, Egypt.

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Pyramid of Neferirkare

The Pyramid of Neferirkare (in ancient Egyptian the Ba of Neferirkare) was built for the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Neferirkare Kakai referred to as Neferirkare in the 25th century BC.

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Pyramid of Nyuserre

The Pyramid of Nyuserre, also spelled Pyramid of Niuserre, is the pyramid complex built for the pharaoh Nyuserre Ini of the Fifth Dynasty in the mid 25th century BC.

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Pyramid of Sahure

The Pyramid of Sahure was the first pyramid built in the necropolis of Abusir, Egypt.

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Pyramid of Senusret II

The Pyramid of Senusret II, also spelled Pyramid of Senwosret II, is the pyramid complex constructed for the pharaoh Senusret II in the Twelfth Dynasty.

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Pyramid of Unas

The Pyramid Complex of Unas is located in the pyramid field at Saqqara, near Cairo in Egypt.

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Pyramid of Userkaf

The pyramid complex of Userkaf was built c. 2490 BC for the pharaoh Userkaf (reign 2494–2487 BC), founder of the 5th dynasty of Egypt (c. 2494–2345 BC).

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Qakare Ibi

Qakare Ibi was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh during the early First Intermediate Period (2181–2055 BC) and the 14th ruler of the Eighth Dynasty.

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QV80

QV80 is the tomb of (Mut-)Tuya, the Great Royal Wife of Seti I, and the mother of Ramses II, in Egypt's Valley of the Queens.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Ramesses VII

Usermaatre Setepenre Meryamun Ramesses VII (also written Ramses and Rameses) was the sixth pharaoh of the 20th dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

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Ramesses X

Khepermaatre Ramesses X (also written Ramses and Rameses) (ruled c. 1111 BC – 1107 BC) was the ninth ruler of the 20th dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

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Ramesses XI

Menmaatre Ramesses XI (also written Ramses and Rameses) reigned from 1107 BC to 1078 BC or 1077 BC and was the tenth and final pharaoh of the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt.

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Ramesseum king list

The memorial temple of Ramesses II, also called simply Ramesseum contains a minor list of pharaohs of ancient Egypt.

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Rashepses

Rashepses was a vizier from the Fifth dynasty of Egypt.

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Reinhold Lepsius

Reinhold Lepsius (14 June 1857 – 16 March 1922) was a German painter, especially of portraits, and graphic artist.

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Royal Gold Medal

The Royal Gold Medal for architecture is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch, in recognition of an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture.

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Shepseskaf

Shepseskaf was the sixth and last pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom.

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Sitre

Sitre ("Daughter of Re") or Tia-Sitre, was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramesses I of Egypt and mother of Seti I.

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Smenkhkare

Ankhkheperure Smenkhkare Djeser Kheperu (sometimes spelled Smenkhare, Smenkare or Smenkhkara) was a short-lived pharaoh in the late 18th dynasty.

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Soleb

Soleb is an ancient town in Nubia, today's Sudan.

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Standard Alphabet by Lepsius

The Standard Alphabet is a Latin-script alphabet developed by Karl Richard Lepsius.

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Sun temple of Userkaf

The Sun temple of Userkaf was an Ancient Egyptian temple dedicated to the sun god Ra built by pharaoh Userkaf, the founder of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt, at the beginning of the 25th century BCE.

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Tanedjemet

Tanejemet of Tanedjemy is a King's daughter and King's Wife from the New Kingdom.

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Tanis

Tanis (ϫⲁⲛⲓ/ϫⲁⲁⲛⲉ; Τάνις; ḏˁn.t /ˈɟuʕnat/ or /ˈcʼuʕnat/; صان الحجر) is a city in the north-eastern Nile Delta of Egypt.

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Thutmose I

Thutmose I (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis I, Thothmes in older history works in Latinized Greek; Ancient Egyptian: /ḏḥwty.ms/ Djehutymes, meaning "Thoth is born") was the third pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt.

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Tomb A.6

Tomb A.6 is the modern number given to a now lost Theban tomb in Dra' Abu el-Naga'.

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TT223

Theban Tomb TT223 is located in South El-Assasif.

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TT390

The Theban Tomb TT390 is located in South El-Assasif, part of the Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite to Luxor.

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TT391

The Theban Tomb TT391 is located in South El-Assasif, part of the Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite to Luxor.

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TT57

The Theban Tomb TT57 is located in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna.

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TT71

Theban Tomb TT71 is located in the Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite to Luxor.

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TT8

TT8 or Theban Tomb 8 was the tomb of Kha, the overseer of works from Deir el-Medina in the mid-18th dynasty and his wife, Merit.

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TT93

The Theban Tomb TT93 is located in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, part of the Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite to Luxor.

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Tyti

Tyti was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 20th dynasty.

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Unfinished Northern Pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan

The Unfinished Northern Pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan, also known as Pyramid of Baka and Pyramid of Bikheris is the term Archaeologists and Egyptologists use to describe a large shaft part of an unfinished pyramid at Zawyet El Aryan in Egypt.

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Wad ban Naqa

Wad ben Naga (also Wad Ban Naqa or Wad Naga) is the name of an ancient town of the Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë in present-day Sudan.

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Wadi Maghareh

Wadi Maghareh (also spelled Maghara or Magharah, meaning "The Valley of Caves" in Egyptian Arabic), is an archaeological site located in the southwestern Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.

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Westcar Papyrus

The Westcar Papyrus (inventory-designation: P. Berlin 3033) is an ancient Egyptian text containing five stories about miracles performed by priests and magicians.

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Wilhelm Bleek

Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (8 March 1827 – 17 August 1875) was a German linguist.

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WVA

For the WVA number, see WVA number.

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Zuma, Sudan

Zuma is an archaeological site including a village and burial ground about downstream from Jebel Barkal in what is now Sudan.

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1842 in archaeology

1842 in archaeology.

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1844 in archaeology

1844 in archaeology.

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1849 in archaeology

1849 in archaeology.

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1869 in architecture

The year 1869 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

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References

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