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...Lu
...Lu is the conventional label for the second of the three kings of Awan in the Sumerian King List, whose name is entirely broken in the manuscripts.
Açina
Açina, also known as Acina, was an Elamite rebel who declared himself king against Darius I in 522 BC and was handed over and killed.
Acropole texts
The Acropole texts are administrative and legal cuneiform tablets, mostly in Akkadian, excavated on the Susa acropolis in Iran from 1897 and dating chiefly to the Sukkalmah period.
Assyrian–Elamite wars
The Assyrian–Elamite wars were a series of Assyrian campaigns against Elam and Babylonian rebels between 721 and 646 BC, ending with Ashurbanipal's sack of Susa in 646 BC.
Atta-hamiti-Inshushinak
Atta-hamiti-Inshushinak (Atta-ḫamiti-Inšušinak) was a late Neo-Elamite king of Anzan and Susa, son of Hutran-tepti, attested by inscriptions and a stela from Susa now in the Louvre.
Attahushu
Attahushu, also written Atta-hušu, was an Elamite ruler of Susa during the Sukkalmah period who claimed Shilhaha as ancestor and built or restored temples including one to Nanna.
Awan dynasty
The Awan dynasty, also known as the Dynasty of Awan, was a dynasty of Elam in southwestern Iran, known from the Sumerian King List and a king list from Susa.
Battle of Ulai River
The Battle of Ulai River, also called the Battle of Til-Tuba, was fought in 653 BC, when Ashurbanipal of Assyria defeated and beheaded the Elamite king Teumman.
Bit-Iakin
Bit-Iakin, more commonly written Bit-Yakin, was a Chaldean tribal polity in the marshlands of southern Babylonia, an adversary of Assyria in the 8th century BC.
Elamite invasion of Babylonia under Humban-nikash
The Elamite invasion of Babylonia under Humban-nikaš was an Elamite intervention in 720 BC supporting Merodach-baladan against Assyria; Elamite forces pushed back Sargon II's army at Der, though Assyria held the city.
Elamite raid on Babylonia under Shutruk-Nahhunte II
The Elamite raid on Babylonia was a campaign of about 1158 BC in which Shutruk-Nahhunte I killed the Kassite king Zababa-shuma-iddina and carried monuments from Sippar and Babylon to Susa.
Epirmupi
Epirmupi (Epir-mupi) was a governor of Susa under the Akkadian empire in the late third millennium BC, known from seals bearing his titles found at Susa.
Guennol Lioness
The Guennol Lioness is a small stone figure of a striding lioness from Elam, circa 3000–2800 BC, which sold at Sotheby's in 2007 for a record $57.2 million.
Haft Tappeh archive
The Haft Tappeh archive, also known as the Kabnak tablets, is a corpus of administrative cuneiform tablets from Kabnak, near Susa, Iran, from the late fifteenth and early fourteenth century BC.
Hallushu-Inshushinak
Hallushu-Inshushinak (Ḫallušu-Inšušinak), also known as Hallushu, was king of Elam from about 699 to 693 BC, succeeding his older brother Shutruk-Nahhunte II during the wars with Assyria.
Hallutash-Inshushinak
Hallutash-Inshushinak (Ḫallutuš-Inšušinak) was a king of Elam of the Middle Elamite period, ruling in the decades around 1200 BC and remembered as the father of Shutruk-Nahhunte I, founder of the Shutrukid dynasty.
Hanni of Ayapir
Hanni of Ayapir, also written Hanne and Hanni son of Tahhi, was a local ruler of Ayapir in the Izeh/Malamir valley of southwest Iran during the Neo-Elamite period.
Hishep-ratep
Hishep-ratep, also rendered Ḫišepratep, was the ninth ruler of the Awan dynasty of Elam around 2350 BC, known only from a king list found at Susa.
Hishutash
Hishutash, rendered Hišur in the Susa king list, was the fourth of twelve early Elamite rulers called kings of Awan in the third millennium BC, known from no other source.
Humban-haltash I
Humban-haltash I (Assyrian Umman-haldashu) was king of Elam from 688 or 689 to 681 BC, founder of the second Neo-Elamite dynasty and a contemporary of Sennacherib of Assyria.
Humban-haltash II
Humban-haltash II (Ḫumban-ḫaltaš II) was king of Elam from about 681 to 675 BC, a reign known almost entirely from Babylonian and Assyrian sources rather than Elamite records.
Humban-haltash III
Humban-haltash III, also known as Ummanaldash III, was the last king of his Elamite dynasty, reigning in the 640s BC before being captured by Ashurbanipal of Assyria.
Humban-menanu
Humban-menanu, also called Umman-menanu, was king of Elam from about 692 to 689 BC, best known for leading the Elamite-Babylonian coalition at the Battle of Halule in 691 BC.
Humban-nikash I
Humban-nikash I, called Ummanigash in Assyrian sources, was king of Elam in southwestern Iran from 743 to 717 BC, defeating an Assyrian army at Der in 720 BC.
Humban-numena
Humban-numena, also rendered Humbannumena, was a king of Elam of the Igihalkid dynasty who ruled around 1350 BC, defeated Kidin-Hutran I, and fathered Untash-Napirisha.
Hutelutush-Inshushinak
Hutelutush-Inshushinak, also known as Ḫutelutuš-Inšušinak, was the last king of Elam's Shutrukid dynasty and of the Middle Elamite period, reigning about 1120–1100 BCE and defeated by Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon.
Hutelutush-Inshushinak's flight to Anshan
Hutelutush-Inshushinak's flight to Anshan was the withdrawal of Elam's last Shutrukid king from Susa after an attack by Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon, ending the dynasty.
Idaddu (king of Shimashki)
Idaddu, also Idattu or Indattu, is the name of several related rulers of the Shimashki dynasty of Elam, who reigned at Susa in the late 21st and 20th centuries BC.
Igi-halki
Igi-halki, also written Igihalki or Igehalki, was a king of Elam around 1400 BCE who founded the Igihalkid dynasty and restored the temple of the goddess Manzat.
Igihalkid dynasty
The Igihalkid dynasty, also spelled Igehalkid, was a Middle Elamite royal line named for its ancestor Igi-halki that ruled Elam from about 1400 to 1210 BC.