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Mitanni and the Hurrians

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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.

Shattuara I

Shattuara I (Šattuara) was a king of Hanigalbat, the Hurrian kingdom that succeeded Mitanni, reigning c. 1305–1285 BC. He rebelled against Assyria's Adad-nirari I, was captured, and was released to rule as a tribute-paying vassal.

Shattuara II

Shattuara II, also written Šattuara II, was the last known king of the Hurrian kingdom of Hanigalbat, or Mitanni, defeated by Assyria's Shalmaneser I in the mid-13th century BC.

Shaushtatar

Šauštatar, also written Sauštatar, was a king of Mitanni who flourished in the fifteenth century BC and is remembered for reducing Assyria and carrying the doors of Assur's temple to Waššukanni.

Shilwa-Teshub

Shilwa-Teshub, also known as Šilwa-Teššub, was a prince and large landowner at Nuzi, near Kirkuk, in the 14th century BC, known from an archive of over 700 cuneiform tablets.

Shuttarna I

Shuttarna I (Šuttarna I) was an early king of Mitanni, son of Kirta, known only from a cylinder seal and probably ruling in the late sixteenth century BCE.

Shuttarna II

Shuttarna II (Šuttarna II) was a king of Mitanni in the late 15th or early 14th century BC, when Mitanni ranked among the Great Powers alongside Egypt.

Shuttarna III

Shuttarna III (Šuttarna III) was a claimant to the throne of Mitanni, also called Hanigalbat, who ruled briefly around 1330 BC with Assyrian backing after King Tushratta was murdered.

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.

Tadukhipa

Tadukhipa (Tadu-Ḫepa, also Tadukhepa) was a Mitanni princess, daughter of King Tushratta, sent to Egypt in the mid-14th century BCE to marry Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

Tehip-Tilla

Tehip-Tilla (Teḫip-tila) was a landowner and official at Nuzi, a Hurrian town in the kingdom of Arrapḫa, whose family archive of over 1,000 cuneiform documents is among the largest private archives of the ancient Near East.

Tish-atal

Tish-atal, also written Tiš-atal, was a third-millennium BC king (endan) of the Hurrian city of Urkesh, known from foundation inscriptions recording his building of a temple.

Tushratta

Tushratta (Tušratta) was king of Mitanni from about 1360 to 1335 BCE, who corresponded with Amenhotep III and Akhenaten, resisted the Hittite king Suppiluliuma I, and died by assassination.

Wasashatta

Wasashatta (Wašašatta) was a king of Mitanni, son and successor of Shattuara I, who reigned around 1300–1280 BC; his revolt against Assyria ended in defeat and deportation.