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Rusa III
Rusa III, also known as Rusa, son of Erimena, was a king of Urartu who ruled the kingdom of Van at or near its end, probably in the late 7th century BC.
Rusa IV
Rusa IV is, in the traditional Urartian king list, the last known king of Urartu, the Kingdom of Van, conventionally placed around 590-585 BC, though his reign rests on contested scholarly reconstruction.
Sack of Aleppo
The sack of Aleppo was the capture and destruction of Aleppo, capital of the kingdom of Yamhad, by the Hittite king Mursili I around 1595 BC.
Sack of Musasir (714 BC)
The sack of Musasir was the 714 BC plunder of the temple of Haldi at Musasir by Sargon II of Assyria, yielding over a tonne of gold.
Sack of Susa and removal of the Statue of Marduk
The sack of Susa and removal of the Statue of Marduk refers to Elamite kings' campaigns against Kassite Babylonia around 1158–1155 BC, ending the Kassite dynasty.
Sadyattes
Sadyattes (Σαδυάττης) was a king of Lydia in western Anatolia, the third ruler of the Mermnad dynasty founded by Gyges, remembered for the long Lydian war against Miletus.
Sahurunuwa
Šaḫurunuwa was a king of Carchemish in the mid-13th century BC, the second viceroy of the Hittite cadet dynasty, known from the archives of Ugarit and Emar.
Sandakshatru
Sandakshatru, also written Sandakšatru, was a king of the Cimmerians who succeeded his father Dugdammē around 640 BC and is known only from Neo-Assyrian records.
Sandasarme
Sandasarme, also Sandas-sarme, was a king of Ḫilakku, the mountainous western part of Cilicia, who appears in Neo-Assyrian records around 662 BC, when his kingdom placed itself under Assyrian protection against the Cimmerians.
Sanga
The sanga was a high-ranking priestly office of Hittite religion, with each sanga dedicated to one of 28 deities and ranked from high priest to lowest.
Sardis bilingual inscription
The Sardis bilingual inscription is a marble funerary stele from Sardis in Lydia bearing Lydian and Aramaic texts, found in 1912 and now in the İzmir Archaeology Museum.
Sarduri I
Sarduri I, also rendered Sarduris I, was a king of Urartu in the mid-9th century BC, son of Lutipri, who founded the dynasty ruling from Tushpa near Lake Van.
Sarduri II
Sarduri II (Sardur II, Sarduris II) was king of Urartu at the height of its power, until his defeat by Tiglath-pileser III in 743 BC.
Sarduri III
Sarduri III, also rendered Sardur III, was a king of Urartu in the third quarter of the 7th century BC, the last externally attested Urartian king.
Sarduri IV
Sarduri IV was a late king of Urartu, the iron-age Kingdom of Van, attested in Biainian royal inscriptions; his reign and chronology remain disputed by scholars.
Sargon II's campaign against Ellipi
Sargon II's campaign against Ellipi was an Assyrian military expedition of 713 BC into the central Zagros that suppressed revolts, made Karalla a province, and restored King Dalta.
Sargon II's campaigns against Mannea
Sargon II's campaigns against Mannea were Assyrian military interventions in the Iranian kingdom of Mannea between 719 and 715 BC, ending with Ullusunu restored as an Assyrian vassal.
Sargon II's eighth campaign
Sargon II's eighth campaign, also known as Sargon II's campaign against Urartu (714 BC), was his 714 BC expedition across the Zagros against Urartu, crushing Rusa I and sacking Musasir.
Saustatar's campaign against Assur
Sauštatar, king of Mitanni, attacked Assur in the fifteenth century BC, carrying off a door of silver and gold; the event is known only from a later Hittite treaty.
Scythian domination of Media
The Scythian domination of Media is the period of Scythian overlordship over the Medes reported by Herodotus, traditionally dated c. 653–625 BC and associated with the Scythian king Madyes.
Scythian incursion into the Near East
The Scythian incursion into the Near East was a series of raids by nomadic horsemen from the steppes into Urartu, Mannea, and Assyria during the 7th century BCE.
Sea battles of Suppiluliuma II
The sea battles of Suppiluliuma II were three naval victories of the last Hittite king over the ships of Alašiya (Cyprus), recorded on tablet KBo 12.38.
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.
Seha River Land
The Seha River Land was a Bronze Age kingdom in western Anatolia, part of Arzawa, attested in Hittite texts of the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries BC.
Shalmaneser I's reorganization of Hanigalbat
Shalmaneser I's reorganization of Hanigalbat was the defeat of the last independent Hurrian kingdom by the Assyrian king Shalmaneser I and its conversion into Assyrian provinces.
Shattiwaza
Šattiwaza, also written Mattiwaza or Kurtiwaza, was a king of Mitanni around 1330–1305 BC, installed by the Hittite king Šuppiluliuma I as vassal ruler of Hanigalbat.
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.