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Sultanhani inscription
The Sultanhani inscription is a Hieroglyphic Luwian text on a stone base and stele found near Sultanhanı in Kayseri province, Turkey, dedicated to the god Tarhunza by Sarwatiwara, a vassal of King Wasusarma of Tabal.
Sunashshura
Sunashshura, also written Sunassura, was king of Kizzuwatna, a kingdom in south-eastern Anatolia, in the 15th century BC, known from a treaty with a Hittite king of the Tudhaliya line.
Suppiluliuma I
Suppiluliuma I, also written Shuppiluliuma or Suppiluliumas, was king of the Hittite Empire around 1350 to 1322 BCE; he surpassed Mitanni and Egypt, conquered Syria, and died of plague in 1322 BCE.
Suppiluliuma II
Suppiluliuma II (Šuppuliuma II) was the final attested king of the Hittite Empire, succeeding Arnuwanda III as the late Bronze Age state faced collapse around 1180 BC.
Syrian campaigns of Hattusili I
The Syrian campaigns of Hattusili I were Hittite military expeditions into northern Syria around 1650–1620 BC, against Alalakh, Urshu, and cities of Yamhad, ending without the conquest of Aleppo.
Syrian campaigns of Suppiluliuma I
The Syrian campaigns of Suppiluliuma I were two Hittite wars against Mitanni in the mid-14th century BC that ended Mitanni's hegemony over Syria and brought Carchemish and Aleppo under Hittite viceroys.
Tabal (state)
Tabal (biblical Tubal) was a Luwian-speaking Neo-Hittite kingdom or group of kingdoms in south-central Anatolia (Cappadocia, Kayseri region) after the Hittite collapse, fragmented into many principalities, tributary to Assyria, annexed 713 BC, lost 711 BC, where Sargon II died in 705 BC.
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.
Tahurwaili
Tahurwaili (Taḫurwaili) was a poorly attested Hittite king of the mid-second millennium BC, known from a treaty with Eḫeya of Kizzuwatna and a letter by Telipinu; his place in the royal succession is disputed.
Takhmaspada
Takhmaspada (Old Persian Taxmaspāda) was a Mede who served Darius I as a general, defeating the rebel Tritantaechmes in 521 BC and appearing in the Behistun inscription.
Talmi-Sharruma
Talmi-Sharruma (Talmi-Šarrumma) was a member of the Hittite royal family who ruled Aleppo under Hittite overlordship, appointed king by Mursili II and known from the Aleppo Treaty.
Talmi-Teshub
Talmi-Teššub, also spelled Talmi-Teshub, was a king of Carchemish on the Euphrates, the last known viceroy installed by the Hittite empire, active in the late 13th century BC.
Talta
Talta (Tālta) was a king of Ellipi, a kingdom in present-day Luristan in western Iran, who paid tribute to Assyria's Tiglath-pileser III in 737 BC and Sargon II in 716 and 714 BC.
Tammaritu (son of Teumman)
Tammaritu was an Elamite prince of the mid-7th century BC, a son of King Teumman who died with his father at the Battle of Ulai in 653 BC.
Tammaritu I
Tammaritu I was an Elamite prince, son of King Urtak, whom Assurbanipal installed as client king in Hidalu after defeating Te'umman at Til-Tuba in 653 BC.
Tammaritu II
Tammaritu II was a king of Elam from about 652 to 649 BC, installed by Ashurbanipal of Assyria, deposed by his own servant Indabibi, and briefly restored in 647 BC.
Tan-Ruhurater
Tan-Ruhurater (Tan-Ruhuratir) was a ruler of the Shimashki dynasty of Elam, known from the Susa King List as the son of Idadu and father of Kindattu, who conquered Ur.
Tapah Gutwand
Tapah Gutwand (Gutwand/Gūtwand) is a Pleiades gazetteer record for the findspot of an ancient brick with an Elamite inscription, at Gotvand, Khuzestan, Iran; the four-line cuneiform text is attributed to Untash-Gal and dedicated to the temple of Chogha.
Tarhuntaradu
Tarhuntaradu, also written Tarhundaradu or Tarkhundaradu, was a king of Arzawa in western Anatolia, known from two Amarna letters exchanged with pharaoh Amenhotep III in the 14th century BC.
Tarkasnawa
Tarkasnawa was a king of Mira in western Anatolia in the late 13th century BC, a Hittite vassal known from the Karabel rock relief near Izmir and a bilingual silver seal.
Tawagalawa letter
The Tawagalawa letter (CTH 181) is a mid-13th-century BC Hittite diplomatic letter, probably from Hattusili III to the king of Ahhiyawa, seeking action against the renegade Piyamaradu.
Tawananna (Babahi)
Tawananna was a Babylonian princess, daughter of Kassite ruler Burna-Buriaš II, who married the Hittite king Suppiluliuma I and was later banished by her stepson Mursili II.
Tawananna (Hittite office)
The Tawananna, also written Tawannanna, was the title of the Hittite chief priestess, held by the queen alongside the king from about the 17th century BC.
Te'uspa
Te'uspa, also written Teušpa or Teushpa, was a king of the Cimmerians, defeated with his entire army by the Assyrian king Esarhaddon near Ḫubušnu in 679 BC.
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.
Teishebaini archive
The Teishebaini archive, also called the Karmir Blur archive, is a set of Urartian cuneiform clay tablets found at a 7th-century BC fortress in Yerevan, Armenia.
Teispes
Teispes (Old Persian Čišpiš) was an early king of Anshan in southwestern Iran, about 675-640 BC, and the common ancestor of the Achaemenid dynasty's two lines.
Telipinu
Telipinu, also spelled Telepinu, was the last king of the Hittite Old Kingdom, reigning c. 1525-1500 BC, known chiefly for his succession edict and the first Hittite treaty with Kizzuwatna.
Telipinu (priest)
Telipinu was a Hittite prince of the mid-14th century BC, second son of King Suppiluliuma I, appointed high-ranking priest in Kizzuwatna and later priest-king at Aleppo in northern Syria.
Temti-agun
Temti-Agun, rendered Zemt-Akone in Linear Elamite, was a ruler of Elam around 2000 BC, attested on silver gunagi vessels and cuneiform texts; scholars debate whether the name covers one ruler or two.