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Alalakh tablets
The Alalakh tablets are two cuneiform archives excavated at Tell Atchana, ancient Alalakh, in Turkey, from the 18th or 17th and the 15th centuries BC, written chiefly in Akkadian.
Alshe
Alshe (Alše) was a Hurrian land on the Upper Tigris in the 2nd millennium BC, known from the mid-14th-century BC treaty in which Šuppiluliuma I conquered it and gave it to Antaratli.
Dynasty of Arrapha
The Dynasty of Arrapha ruled the Hurrian kingdom of Arrapha, a Mitanni vassal with its capital at modern Kirkuk, during the 15th and 14th centuries BC.
Eluhut
Eluhut, also written Eluhat or Elahut, was a Hurrian land or small kingdom of the second millennium BC in the upper Tigris region of what is now south-eastern Turkey.
Great Kings of Hanigalbat
The Great Kings of Hanigalbat were Assyrian grand viziers of the 13th century BC who, bearing the title king of Hanigalbat, ruled the former Mitanni kingdom from Dur-Katlimmu.
Hurrian foundation pegs
Hurrian foundation pegs, also known as the foundation pegs of Urkesh, are copper-alloy lion figurines buried in temple foundations at Urkesh, Syria, bearing the oldest known Hurrian text.
Hurrian language
Hurrian is an extinct, non-Semitic and non-Indo-European language of the Hurrians, attested from the third millennium BC until the Late Bronze Age collapse around 1200 BC.
Hurrian personal names
Hurrian personal names are names of Hurrian origin on cuneiform tablets from the late third millennium BC onward, the principal evidence for Hurrian religion and society.
Hurrian songs
The Hurrian songs, also called Hurrian Hymns, are cuneiform tablets from Ugarit, Syria, bearing the oldest substantially preserved notated music, including a hymn to Nikkal.
Ishuwa
Ishuwa, also written Isuwa, was a small kingdom on the Upper Euphrates around modern Elazığ, attested in Hittite texts from the late 15th to late 13th century BC.
Maryannu
The maryannu (mariannu) were the noble class of the Late Bronze Age Levant and upper Mesopotamia, whose privilege was fighting from horse-drawn chariots, especially in the Mitanni empire.
Mitanni dynasty
The Mitanni dynasty was the royal house of Mitanni, a Hurrian kingdom that ruled Upper Mesopotamia and parts of Syria from the 15th to the 14th century BC.
Nawar
Nawar was a Hurrian land or polity in Upper Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BC, best known from the royal title "king of Urkesh and Nawar".
Nuzi texts
The Nuzi texts are thousands of Akkadian cuneiform tablets excavated at Nuzi, near Kirkuk in northern Iraq, a primary source for Hurrian private law and family customs, ca. 1475-1350 BCE.
Nuzi ware
Nuzi ware, also called Nuzu or Mitanni ware, is a painted pottery of the Mitanni period in northern Mesopotamia, with light paint on a dark slip.
Seals of the Hurrian queens of Urkesh
The seals of the Hurrian queens of Urkesh are inscribed cylinder seals of Queen Uqnitum, found at Tell Mozan, Syria, dating to about 2250–2150 BC.
Shattiwaza treaty
The Shattiwaza treaty, or Treaty of Suppiluliuma I and Shattiwaza, is a pair of Hittite documents from Hattusa ratifying Mittani's subjugation in the 14th century BCE.
Song of Release
The Song of Release is a Hurrian narrative poem about the fall of Ebla, preserved in a Hurrian–Hittite bilingual edition from the Hittite capital Ḫattuša.