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  • proper noun An Egyptian pharaoh of the fifth dynasty

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Examples

  • For example, two years ago Robert Smith, Roland Rowe and I were negotiating here in Toronto with Alan Lambert's representatives to acquire control of Unas from the Toronto-Dominion Bank.

    The Slater-Walker Formula 1973

  • The power of the king in heaven was almost as absolute as it was upon earth, and in a very remarkable passage in the text of Unas, which is repeated in the text of Teta, we have a graphic description of the king as a mighty hunter, who chases the gods and lassoes them, and then kills and eats them in order that he may absorb their strength and wisdom, and all their divine attributes, and their power of living eternally.

    The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians 1895

  • There have been parts – a supposed mummified foot at Djoser; fragments of a mummy in the pyramid of Unas and Pepi; an arm and shoulder at Teti and a skeleton of a young woman in the coffer of the pyramid of Menkaure.

    Name Stargate | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Teal'C and O'Neill get transported to the underground caves of the vicious creature Unas.

    Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Thor's Hammer' 2009

  • Interesting bit of trivia: James Earl Jones is the voice of Unas, the first one (the first Goa'uld host).

    Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Thor's Hammer' 2009

  • And while the pieces are there for a good episode (ancient symbiotes, the Unas) it just doesn't fit together very well.

    Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'The First Ones' (S04E07) 2009

  • Unas semanas después de la muerte de nuestro Alejandro Romualdo Valle, el duelo le toca ahora a Venezuela.

    Venezualan Bloggers Remember Eugenio Montejo 2008

  • The funeral hymn of Unas declared that he "had union with the goddess Mut, Unas hath drawn unto himself the flame of Isis, Unas hath united himself to the lotus."

    Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

  • In the past, excavations have focused on just one side of the two nearby pyramids — theStep Pyramidof King Djoserand that of Unas, the last king of the 5th Dynasty.

    4,300-year-old Pharaonic Tombs Unveiled Near Cairo 2008

  • Twelve years ago I'd gone inside the pyramid of Unas at Sakkara, home to the most ancient religious writings of any faith anywhere in the world, the so-called Pyramid Texts.

    I have entered the Red Pyramid 2005

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