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Ten Year Annals of Mursili II
The Ten Year Annals are a Hittite text written in King Mursili II's voice recounting the campaigns of the first ten years of his reign.
Tepti-ahar
Tepti-ahar, also written Tepti-Ahar or Tepti Ahar, was a king of Elam of the Kidinuid dynasty around 1400 BC, known from excavations at Haft Tappeh, ancient Kabnak.
Testament of Hattusili I
The Testament of Hattusili I, also called the Political Testament of Hattusili I, is a bilingual Akkadian–Hittite proclamation in which the ailing king names his grandson Mursili I as successor.
Teumman
Te'umman was a Neo-Elamite king of the Hubanid dynasty who ruled Elam from 664 to 653 BC and died in battle against Ashurbanipal of Assyria.
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.
Topada inscription
The Topada inscription is a Hieroglyphic Luwian rock inscription near Ağıllı in Nevşehir Province, Turkey, commemorating Wasusarma, Great King of Tabal, and his multi-year war against the city of Parzuta.
Topzawa Stele
The Topzawa Stele is a Urartian-Assyrian bilingual stele of King Rusa I of Urartu, erected near Topzawa in Iraqi Kurdistan in the 8th century BC.
Treaty of Hattusili III and Benteshina of Amurru
The Treaty of Hattusili III and Benteshina of Amurru is a Hittite vassal treaty, classified as CTH 92, that restored Benteshina to the throne of Amurru.
Treaty of Kurustaša
The Treaty of Kurustaša, also called the Kuruštama Treaty, is a fragmentary Hittite state treaty naming Egypt, an early treaty of equality between Ḫatti and Egypt.
Treaty of Mursili II with Duppi-Teshub of Amurru
The Treaty of Mursili II with Duppi-Teshub of Amurru, also known as the Treaty with Duppi-Teshub, is a Hittite vassal treaty (CTH 62) confirming Duppi-Teshub as vassal ruler of Amurru around 1321–1295 BC.
Treaty of Shaushgamuwa
The Treaty of Shaushgamuwa (Šaušgamuwa treaty) is a Hittite vassal treaty by King Tudhaliya IV for Šaušgamuwa of Amurru, the last Hatti–Amurru treaty, famous for its erased reference to Aḫḫiyawa.
Treaty of the Halys
The Treaty of the Halys, or Median–Lydian peace treaty, ended the war between Cyaxares of Media and Alyattes of Lydia, interrupted by a solar eclipse in 585 BC.
Treaty of Tudhaliya IV with Ulmi-Teshub
The Treaty of Tudhaliya IV with Ulmi-Teshub, also called the Treaty with Ulmi-Teshub of Tarhuntassa, is a Hittite clay-tablet treaty with the king of Tarhuntassa, notable for its detailed boundary description and disputed attribution.
Treaty of Tudhaliya with Sunashshura
The Treaty of Tudhaliya with Sunashshura, also known as the Sunassura treaty, is a mid-15th-century BC agreement between the Hittite king Tudhaliya I and Sunashshura of Kizzuwatna.
Troy VI destruction
The Troy VI destruction ended the fortified Late Bronze Age city of Troy at Hisarlik around 1300 BC, attributed by most scholars to a violent earthquake.
Tudhaliya I/II
Tudhaliya I/II, also known as Tudhaliya II, was a Hittite great king who ruled in the mid-15th century BC, succeeding the assassinated Muwattalli I and opening renewed Hittite expansion.
Tudhaliya III
Tudhaliya III, also written Tudḫaliya III, was a Hittite king who reigned from about 1380 to 1355 BC, surviving attacks on several fronts and regaining lost territories.
Tudhaliya III's concentric invasions
Tudhaliya III's concentric invasions were simultaneous enemy attacks on the Hittite kingdom around 1400–1350 BC that burned the capital Hattusa before a counterattack restored Hittite power.
Tudhaliya IV
Tudhaliya IV, also known as Tudhaliyas IV, was a king of the Hittite empire who reigned c. 1237–1209 BC, fought Assyria near Nihriya, and enlarged Hattusa.
Tudhaliya IV's building programme at Hattusa
Tudhaliya IV's building program at Hattusa was the last major wave of royal construction at the Hittite capital under King Tudhaliya IV, c. 1237–1209 BC.
Tudhaliya IV's conquest of Cyprus
Tudhaliya IV's conquest of Cyprus was a Hittite military campaign against the island kingdom of Alashiya, generally identified with Cyprus, around 1220–1200 BC, the empire's only attested use of naval forces.
Tudhaliya of Carchemish
Tudhaliya of Carchemish was a king of Karkemish around the 10th century BC, placed after Suhi II in the city's monument list and known only from a stele fragment.
Tudhaliya the Younger
Tudhaliya the Younger was a Hittite prince, the designated heir to the throne, who died violently around the mid-14th century BC, clearing the way for Šuppiluliuma I.
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.
Tuwana
Tuwana, known in Assyrian records as Tuhana, was an Iron Age kingdom in southern Cappadocia, Anatolia, part of the region the Assyrians called Tabal, with its capital identified with Tyana at Kemerhisar.
Tuwati
Tuwati, also rendered Tuwatis or Tuatti, was a great king of Tabal in central Anatolia in the 8th century BC, known as the father of King Wasusarma.
Ualli
Ualli was a king of Mannea, a kingdom in the Zagros mountains of western Iran, who took the throne with Assyrian support after his father Ahsheri was assassinated.
Uhha-Ziti
Uhha-Ziti, also written Uḫḫa-ziti, was a king of Arzawa in western Anatolia in the 14th century BC, defeated and deposed by the Hittite king Mursili II around 1318 BC.
Uḫna
Uḫna (Uhna) was a king of Zalpuwa in north-central Anatolia who flourished in the 19th to 18th centuries BC and abducted the statue of the god Šiu-šummi from Neša.
Ukku-Tanhish
Ukku-Tanhish, also spelled Ukku-Takhesh, was an early king of Awan, the dynastic seat of Elamite rulers in southwestern Iran during the third millennium BC, known only from the reconstructed Awan king list.