Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (49 page)

Hades (Greek god of the underworld)
89

Hadrian, Emperor
90

Hamer, Mary
215

harem wives
26

Harpocrates
89
,
118

Harpre-pekhrat (Horus the Sun, the Child)
118
,
119
,
121

Harpsenesis
248
n
18

Harris Stela
141

Harsiesis
121

Harwennefer, Theban counter-pharaoh (206–200)
227

Hathor (mother goddess)
67
,
68
,
111
,
113
,
114
,
118
,
121–4
,
128
,
129
,
134
,
222

cult of
113

Hatshepsut (queen regent, 1473–1458)
45
,
92
,
121
,
241
n
2

Heliogabalus
197

Heliopolis
113
,
132

cult centre of Re
43
,
67
,
91
,
92

Helios (Greek sun god)
89
,
163

Hellenes
30

Hellenistic Age (336–30)
30

Heptastadion, Alexandria
81
,
212

Hera
25
,
114
,
133
,
195

Heracleopolis
37
,
164

Heracles
12
,
31
,
133
,
146
,
195

Hermitage, St Petersburg
66

Hermonthis
42
,
43

Hermopolis Magna
221

temple of Thoth
129

Herod of Judaea
158
,
162
,
166–7
,
170
,
177

Herodotus of Halicarnassus
2
,
16–18
,
114

Herophilus
82

Hesiod
131

Hiera Nesos, Faiyum
47

Hierakonpolis
251
n
4

hieroglyphic script
20
,
64
,
126
,
228

Homer
2
,
72
,
131
,
226

The Iliad
206

Odyssey
72
,
206

homosexuality
56

Hor of Sebennytos
136

Horace
153
,
197–8
,
208
,
214
,
217

Horus
5
,
43
,
67
,
115
,
117
,
118
,
121
,
122
,
132
,
241–2
n
4

I

Ibn Battuta
81

Ibn-al-As, Amr
211

Ihy/Harsomtus
121
,
122

illegitimacy
27–8

Imhotep
142

incest
24–6
,
39

India
181
,
198
,
221

inflation
38
,
40
,
46
,
140

‘Inimitable Livers, The’ (drinking society)
155
,
182

Iol (modern Cherchell)
200

Iotape
199

Iphigenia
189

Iran
143

see also
Persia

Iraq
143

Iris
25

irrigation
15

Isis Medica
115

Isis (mother goddess)
5
,
24
,
43
,
44
,
58
,
61
,
67
,
68
,
88–91
,
113–18
,
121
,
123
,
124
,
130
,
133
,
134
,
172
,
174
,
183
,
248
n
18
,
251
n
6

cult of
103
,
110
,
114–15

Hor of Sebennytos’s dream
136–7

Cleopatra III becomes her living embodiment
138

as Queen of Heaven
163

Isis Pelagia (Isis of the Sea)
115

Isis Thermoutharion
194

Israel
222

Issus, battle of (333)
221

Itj-Tawi
71

J

James, Sid
258
n
15

Jerusalem
77
,
166

Jewish uprising (AD
116
)
90

Jewish-Roman war (AD
66–73
)
211

Jews
14
,
76–7
,
88
,
97
,
141
,
162
,
176
,
232
,
233

John of Nikiou, Coptic Bishop
212–13

Jordan
222

Josephus
77
,
79
,
110
,
141
,
166–7
,
211

Against Apion
211

Juba I of Numidia
200

Juba II
35
,
104
,
199–202
,
238

Judaea
162

Julia (Caesar’s daughter; wife of Pompey)
47
,
56
,
103

Julia (Octavian’s daughter)
161
,
199

Julian calendar
xiv

Julius Antonius
148
,
199

Julius Caesar
see
Caesar

Jupiter
186

Jupiter Optimus Maximus, temple of, Rome
104

K

ka
(spirit)
122

Karnak temple complex
129
,
134
,
141
,
198
,
259
n
16

Red Chapel
45
,
92

improvements
221
,
223–4

temple of the goddess Mut
223

Opet temple
223–4

gateway to the Ptah temple
244
n
21

Kelly, R.T.:
Egypt
70

Kerkeosiris
248
n
18

Khaemwaset
129

Khentkawes (queen consort)
241
n
2

Khnum, Elephantine temple of
221

Khnum (ram-headed creator god)
76