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Piha-walwi
Piha-walwi was a Hittite scribe on wood of the 13th century BC, attested at the capital Hattuša and known for seals combining the title SCRIBA with number signs.
Pihhuniya
Pihhuniya (Piḫḫuniya) was a Kaska chieftain of Tipiya in northern Anatolia who attacked the Hittite Upper Land and was captured by Mursili II, who said he ruled "in the manner of a king".
Pilliya
Pilliya was a king of Kizzuwatna in south-eastern Anatolia in the mid-15th century BC, known from treaties with Idrimi of Alalakh and the Hittite Zidanza.
Pisidians
The Pisidians were the divided mountain communities of Pisidia, a highland region of southern Anatolia, known in classical sources for their fierce resistance to conquerors.
Pisindelis
Pisindelis was a dynast of Halicarnassus in Caria, the under-age son of Queen Artemisia I, who ruled as his regent under Persian suzerainty in the fifth century BC.
Pithana
Pithana, also written Pitḫana, was an early 18th-century BC king of the Anatolian city of Kuššara who captured Kaneš and was the father of Anitta.
Piyama-Kurunta
Piyama-Kurunta of Arzawa was an Arzawan prince, son of King Uhha-Ziti, defeated by the Hittite king Mursili II at Walma on the river Astarpa during the campaigns of Mursili's third and fourth regnal years.
Piyamaradu
Piyamaradu, also written Piyama-Radu, was a warlord of obscure origin who raided the Hittite Empire's western lands for roughly 40 years in the 13th century BC.
Piyassili
Piyassili, also known as Šarri-Kušuḫ, was a Hittite prince, a middle son of King Suppiluliuma I, made king of Carchemish after his father's Syrian conquests.
Piyusti
Piyusti, also printed Wiušti, was the pre-Hittite king of Hattusa whom Anitta, king of Kussara, defeated and whose city he destroyed in the second half of the 18th century BC.
Plague of Suppiluliuma I
The Plague of Suppiluliuma I, or Hittite plague, was a twenty-year epidemic in Hatti from about 1330 BCE that killed Suppiluliuma I and his son Arnuwanda II.
Plague Prayers of Mursili II
The Plague Prayers of Mursili II are Hittite cuneiform prayers in which King Mursili II asks the gods to end a plague that killed his subjects for twenty years.
Porsuk inscription
The Porsuk inscription is a single-line Hieroglyphic Luwian text on a limestone block from Zeyve Höyük, southern Cappadocia, dated to the 8th or early 7th century BC.
Proto-Elamite period
The Proto-Elamite period is the earliest phase of writing on the Iranian plateau, centered on Susa and Anshan, with about 1,700 undeciphered administrative clay tablets from around 3050 to 2900 BC.
Proto-Elamite script
Proto-Elamite is one of the world's earliest writing systems, used in Iran around 3100–2900 BC. Its roughly 1,600 clay tablets are administrative records, and the script remains only partly deciphered.
Proto-Elamite tablets (Tepe Yahya)
The Proto-Elamite tablets of Tepe Yahya are a small archive of 26 administrative clay tablets, written in the undeciphered Proto-Elamite script and excavated at Tepe Yahya in Kerman province, southeastern Iran.
PU-Sarruma
PU-Sarruma, also read Pu-sharruma, is a conjectured ruler placed at the head of the dynasty preceding the Hittite Old Kingdom in the 17th century BC.
Puduhepa
Puduhepa (Puduḫepa), also Puduheba, was a Hurrian-born Hittite queen, wife of Hattusili III, who led peace negotiations with Ramesses II and served as great queen from 1267 BC.
Puduhepa letters
The Puduhepa letters are the royal correspondence sent in the name of Puduḫepa, great queen of the Hittites, chiefly with Ramesses II of Egypt after their 1259 BC peace treaty.
Puzur-Inshushinak
Puzur-Inshushinak, also known as Kutik-Inshushinak, was the twelfth and last king of Awan, who ruled from Susa in southwestern Iran in the late 22nd century BC.
Ramataia
Ramataia (Ramataya) was a Median city lord of Urakazabanu who in 672 BC swore a loyalty treaty to Esarhaddon of Assyria, known from tablets found at Nimrud in 1955.
Removal of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin to Susa
The removal of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin to Susa was the transfer of the stele from Sippar to Susa as Elamite war booty in the 12th century BC.
Revolt of Hanigalbat against Assyria
The revolt of Hanigalbat, also called the Hanigalbat revolt, was an uprising in the former Mitanni heartland against Assyrian rule under Tukulti-Ninurta I, reportedly backed by Hittites and Ahlamu.
Revolt of Kashtaritu
The Revolt of Kashtaritu, or Kashtariti revolt, was an anti-Assyrian rising around 675 BCE led by Kaštaritu, a city lord of Karkaššî in the Zagros, against Esarhaddon of Assyria.
Revolt of Tabal against Assyria
The revolt of Tabal against Assyria was the 713 BC rebellion of King Ambaris of Tabal against Sargon II of Assyria, ending in his capture and Tabal's annexation as a province.
Revolts against Mursili II
The revolts against Mursili II were uprisings by vassals of the Hittite Empire, chiefly the kingdom of Arzawa, which Mursili crushed in campaigns in his third and fourth regnal years.
Rimush's campaign against Elam and Warahshe
Rimush's campaign against Elam and Warahshe was a military expedition of Rimush, second king of the Akkadian dynasty and son of Sargon, against Elam and Parahshum around 2278–2270 BC, known from his own inscriptions.
Rise of Mitanni
The rise of Mitanni, also called the formation of the Mitanni kingdom, made a Hurrian kingdom on the upper Khabur River a great Near Eastern power.
Rusa I
Rusa I (Rusas I), son of Sarduri II, was king of Urartu around 735–713 BC, rebuilding the kingdom before defeat by Sargon II of Assyria in 714 BC.
Rusa II
Rusa II, also written Rusas II, was king of Urartu from about 685 to 645 BC and its last great king, who built fortified cities against Cimmerian and Scythian raiders.