"Pharaoh of the Oppression." All Egyptologists are agreed that this was Ramses II. [37] [63]
"Pharaoh's Needle." The Arabic rendering for "obelisk". [79]
Philae. An island in the Nile near the Nubian boundary, belonging to the first nome of Upper Egypt. [4] [7] [9] [10] [22] [84] [86]
Philae Obelisk. A fragment of an obelisk which was erected, together with its companion, the Corfe Castle Obelisk (which see), in front of the temple of Isis by Ptolemy IX. Euergetes II. and his sister Cleopatra II. It has one column of hieroglyphs on each face, and is at Philæ. [9]
Piânkhî. An Ethiopian king, of the XXIVth dynasty, who conquered Egypt at the close of the XXIId dynasty, when it was divided into thirteen petty kingdoms. His name in Egyptian is [21]
| suten-kaut? | Men-kheper-Râ | sa Râ | P-ânkhî |
| The king of Upper and Lower Egypt, | "The stable and creative Sun", | the Sun's offspring, | "He who lives." |
| suten-kaut? | Men-kheper-Râ |
| The king of Upper and Lower Egypt, | "The stable and creative Sun", |
| sa Râ | P-ânkhî |
| the Sun's offspring, | "He who lives." |
Piazza della Minerva Obelisk. A small obelisk in Rome. It has only a single column of hieroglyphs on each face, and was probably erected by Psametik II. in Saïs. It was removed by the Romans and re-erected by Pope Alexander VII. in 1667, who had it placed on a marble elephant. [10]