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Of or pertaining to a pharaoh.
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Impressively large or luxurious.
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Tyrannical or brutally oppressive.
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Of or pertaining to infibulation as a means of female genital mutilation.
Examples of pharaonic in a Sentence
Memphis, the Pharaonic capital, was on the west bank of the Nile, some 14 m.
Passing by certain fragments of stone vessels, found at Cnossus, and coincident with forms characteristic of the IVth Pharaonic Dynasty, we reach another fairly certain date in the synchronism of remains belonging to the XIIth Dynasty (c. 2500 B.C. according to Petrie, but later according to the Berlin School) with products of Minoan Period II.
The museum is entirely devoted to antiquities of Pharaonic times, and, except in historical papyri, in which it is excelled by the British Museum, is the most valuable collection of such antiquities in existence.
At the various mines, and on the routes to them and to the Red Sea, are some small temples and stations, ranging from the Pharaonic to the Roman period.
It dates from Pharaonic times, having been begun by Sesostris, continued by Necho II.
The most notable Pharaonic queen in her own right was Hatshepsut in the XVIIIth Dynasty, but her reign was ignored by the later rulers even of her own family.
The GodsThe end of the pre-dynastic period, in which we dimly descry a number of independent tribes in constant warfare with one another, was marked by the rise of a united Egyptian state with a single Pharaonic ruler at its head.
In Pharaonic times it supported a large population, but the numerous ruins are mostly of later date.
During the Roman period, as it had also been in Pharaonic times, Kharga was used as a place of banishment, the most notable exile being Nestorius, sent thither after his condemnation by the council of Ephesus.
These are some of the only treasures from a Pharaonic tomb as all the others were taken by tomb robbers shortly after their completion.