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Eheya
Eheya was a king of Kizzuwatna, a kingdom in south-eastern Anatolia roughly corresponding to Cilicia, who ruled in the 15th century BC and made an equal-terms treaty with the Hittite king Tahurwaili.
Elamite invasion of Babylonia under Humban-nikash
The Elamite invasion of Babylonia under Humban-nikaš was an Elamite intervention in 720 BC supporting Merodach-baladan against Assyria; Elamite forces pushed back Sargon II's army at Der, though Assyria held the city.
Elamite raid on Babylonia under Shutruk-Nahhunte II
The Elamite raid on Babylonia was a campaign of about 1158 BC in which Shutruk-Nahhunte I killed the Kassite king Zababa-shuma-iddina and carried monuments from Sippar and Babylon to Susa.
Ellipi
Ellipi was an independent kingdom in the central Zagros mountains of western Iran, attested in Neo-Assyrian records from 866 BC until its mid-7th-century BC annexation by the Medes.
Eluhut
Eluhut, also written Eluhat or Elahut, was a Hurrian land or small kingdom of the second millennium BC in the upper Tigris region of what is now south-eastern Turkey.
Epirmupi
Epirmupi (Epir-mupi) was a governor of Susa under the Akkadian empire in the late third millennium BC, known from seals bearing his titles found at Susa.
Erimena
Erimena was a royal of Urartu known as the father of King Rusa, and possibly a king himself in the late eighth or seventh century BC.
Etiuni
Etiuni, also written Etio or Etiuini, was a loose confederation of tribes in the Armenian highlands, known almost entirely from Urartian royal inscriptions of the 9th and 8th centuries BC.
Extensive Annals of Mursili II
The Extensive Annals of Mursili II are a Hittite text in which King Mursili II recounts his campaigns year by year across his reign, c. 1321–1295 BC.
Fall of Apasa
The Fall of Apasa was the capture of Apasa, capital of the Anatolian kingdom of Arzawa, by the Hittite king Mursili II around 1318 BC.
Fall of Assur
The Fall of Assur, or Sack of Assur, was the capture and sack of the Assyrian cult city of Assur by the Medes under Cyaxares in 614 BC, two years before Nineveh fell.
Fıraktın relief
The Fıraktın relief, also spelled Fraktin, is a Hittite rock relief near Kayseri, Turkey, showing King Ḫattušili III and Queen Puduḫepa libating to the Storm-god and Ḫepat.
Foundation of Erebuni
The foundation of Erebuni was the founding of a fortress city by Argishti I, king of Urartu, in 782 BC on the hill of Arin Berd, now in Yerevan, Armenia.
Foundation of the kingdom of Urartu
The foundation of the kingdom of Urartu was the mid-9th-century BC unification of tribes around Lake Van, first attested under King Arame and consolidated by Sarduri I at Tushpa.
GAL DUB.SAR
GAL DUB.SAR, also written GAL DUB.SAR.MEŠ, is the Sumerographic title of the chief scribe of the Hittite kingdom, attested at Ḫattuša in the 2nd millennium BC.
GAL GESTIN
GAL GEŠTIN ('Great of the Wine') was a top-level Hittite court title, equivalent to Akkadian rabi karānim, whose holders mainly commanded army units from the early 2nd millennium BC to the kingdom's end.
GAL MESEDI
GAL MEŠEDI is the title of the chief of the royal bodyguards in the Hittite kingdom of Anatolia, usually held by a brother of the king.
Gassulawiya
Gassulawiya was a wife of the Hittite king Mursili II in the late 14th century BC and mother of the later kings Muwatalli II and Hattusili III.
Gilukhipa
Gilukhipa, also known as Kilushepa, was a Mitannian princess, daughter of King Shuttarna II, sent to Egypt around 1382 BC as a bride for Pharaoh Amenhotep III.
Gökbez relief
The Gökbez relief is a Neo-Hittite rock relief of the storm god Tarhunzas at Gökbez village in Niğde Province, Turkey, dated to the 8th century BCE.
Golden bowl of Hasanlu
The Golden bowl of Hasanlu is a solid gold bowl with mythological relief scenes, found in 1958 at Hasanlu Tepe in northwestern Iran and held by the National Museum of Iran.
Gordias
Gordias, also spelled Gordios (Greek: Γόρδιος), is a legendary king of Phrygia, remembered as a peasant raised to kingship by an omen, as father of Midas, and as owner of the Gordian Knot.
Great King (Hittite title)
Great King, written LUGAL.GAL, was the title of Hittite kings ruling from Hattuša about 1650 to 1180 BC, equal in rank to Egypt and Assyria.
Great Kings of Hanigalbat
The Great Kings of Hanigalbat were Assyrian grand viziers of the 13th century BC who, bearing the title king of Hanigalbat, ruled the former Mitanni kingdom from Dur-Katlimmu.
Guennol Lioness
The Guennol Lioness is a small stone figure of a striding lioness from Elam, circa 3000–2800 BC, which sold at Sotheby's in 2007 for a record $57.2 million.
Gyges (king of Lydia)
Gyges, also known as Gyges of Lydia, was king of Lydia in western Anatolia during the 7th century BC, founder of the Mermnad dynasty, killed fighting the Cimmerians.
Gyges' embassy to Assurbanipal
Gyges' embassy to Assurbanipal was a diplomatic mission sent around 665 BC by Gyges, king of Lydia, to Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, after the god Ashur appeared to Gyges in a dream.
Haft Tappeh archive
The Haft Tappeh archive, also known as the Kabnak tablets, is a corpus of administrative cuneiform tablets from Kabnak, near Susa, Iran, from the late fifteenth and early fourteenth century BC.
Hallushu-Inshushinak
Hallushu-Inshushinak (Ḫallušu-Inšušinak), also known as Hallushu, was king of Elam from about 699 to 693 BC, succeeding his older brother Shutruk-Nahhunte II during the wars with Assyria.
Hallutash-Inshushinak
Hallutash-Inshushinak (Ḫallutuš-Inšušinak) was a king of Elam of the Middle Elamite period, ruling in the decades around 1200 BC and remembered as the father of Shutruk-Nahhunte I, founder of the Shutrukid dynasty.