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Hulli
Ḫulli was a king of Tabal in Iron Age Central Anatolia, installed by Tiglath-pileser III around 730 BC after Wasusarma failed to pay tribute; Assyrian records call him "the son of a nobody".
Humban-haltash I
Humban-haltash I (Assyrian Umman-haldashu) was king of Elam from 688 or 689 to 681 BC, founder of the second Neo-Elamite dynasty and a contemporary of Sennacherib of Assyria.
Humban-haltash II
Humban-haltash II (Ḫumban-ḫaltaš II) was king of Elam from about 681 to 675 BC, a reign known almost entirely from Babylonian and Assyrian sources rather than Elamite records.
Humban-haltash III
Humban-haltash III, also known as Ummanaldash III, was the last king of his Elamite dynasty, reigning in the 640s BC before being captured by Ashurbanipal of Assyria.
Humban-menanu
Humban-menanu, also called Umman-menanu, was king of Elam from about 692 to 689 BC, best known for leading the Elamite-Babylonian coalition at the Battle of Halule in 691 BC.
Humban-nikash I
Humban-nikash I, called Ummanigash in Assyrian sources, was king of Elam in southwestern Iran from 743 to 717 BC, defeating an Assyrian army at Der in 720 BC.
Humban-numena
Humban-numena, also rendered Humbannumena, was a king of Elam of the Igihalkid dynasty who ruled around 1350 BC, defeated Kidin-Hutran I, and fathered Untash-Napirisha.
Hurrian foundation pegs
Hurrian foundation pegs, also known as the foundation pegs of Urkesh, are copper-alloy lion figurines buried in temple foundations at Urkesh, Syria, bearing the oldest known Hurrian text.
Hurrian language
Hurrian is an extinct, non-Semitic and non-Indo-European language of the Hurrians, attested from the third millennium BC until the Late Bronze Age collapse around 1200 BC.
Hurrian migration into the Near East
The Hurrian migration into the Near East, or Hurrian expansion, spread Hurrian speakers from the northern highlands into Upper Mesopotamia and Syria, culminating in the Mittanni kingdom.
Hurrian personal names
Hurrian personal names are names of Hurrian origin on cuneiform tablets from the late third millennium BC onward, the principal evidence for Hurrian religion and society.
Hurrian songs
The Hurrian songs, also called Hurrian Hymns, are cuneiform tablets from Ugarit, Syria, bearing the oldest substantially preserved notated music, including a hymn to Nikkal.
Hüseyindede vases
The Hüseyindede vases are Early Hittite polychrome relief vessels found at Hüseyindede Tepe, about 45 km north-east of Boğazköy in Turkey, dated to the 16th century BCE.
Hutelutush-Inshushinak
Hutelutush-Inshushinak, also known as Ḫutelutuš-Inšušinak, was the last king of Elam's Shutrukid dynasty and of the Middle Elamite period, reigning about 1120–1100 BCE and defeated by Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon.
Hutelutush-Inshushinak's flight to Anshan
Hutelutush-Inshushinak's flight to Anshan was the withdrawal of Elam's last Shutrukid king from Susa after an attack by Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon, ending the dynasty.
Huzziya (Zalpuwa)
Ḫuzziya of Zalpuwa was a king of the Anatolian city-state of Zalpuwa, probably in the 18th century BC, known only from the Anitta text, which says Anitta took him captive to Nesa.
Huzziya I
Ḫuzziya I (Huzziyas I) was a Hittite Old Kingdom king who reigned briefly around 1530 BC, between Ammuna and Telipinu, who dethroned and exiled him.
Huzziya II
Huzziya II (Ḫuzziya II) was a Hittite Middle Kingdom king of the mid-15th century BC, reigning between Zidanta II and Muwattalli I and traditionally murdered by Muwattalli, his bodyguard chief, who seized the throne.
Hyssaldomus
Hyssaldomos, also spelled Hyssaldomus, was a Carian dynast of Mylasa in the early 4th century BC, father of Hecatomnus and grandfather of Mausolus, known from inscriptions and small silver coins.
Idaddu (king of Shimashki)
Idaddu, also Idattu or Indattu, is the name of several related rulers of the Shimashki dynasty of Elam, who reigned at Susa in the late 21st and 20th centuries BC.
Igi-halki
Igi-halki, also written Igihalki or Igehalki, was a king of Elam around 1400 BCE who founded the Igihalkid dynasty and restored the temple of the goddess Manzat.
Igihalkid dynasty
The Igihalkid dynasty, also spelled Igehalkid, was a Middle Elamite royal line named for its ancestor Igi-halki that ruled Elam from about 1400 to 1210 BC.
Ili-ishmani
Ili-ishmani, also Ilishmani, was a governor of Susa in Elam during the late Akkadian period, known only from an inscription on a bronze axe found at Susa.
Indabibi
Indabibi, also rendered Indabigaš, was a king of Elam in southwestern Iran who ruled briefly from 649 to 648 BC, between Tammaritu II and Humban-haltaš III.
Indattu-Inshushinak II
Indattu-Inshushinak II, also printed Idattu-Inshushinnak II, was a king of Elam of the Shimashki dynasty, son of Tan-Rukhurater, known chiefly from the Susa King List and later inscriptions.
Indictment of Madduwatta
The Indictment of Madduwatta is a draft letter of accusation by the Hittite king Arnuwanda I, written in the early fourteenth century BC to his former vassal Madduwatta.
Indo-Iranian migrations into the Iranian plateau
The Indo-Iranian migrations into the Iranian plateau brought Iranian-speaking peoples from Central Asia in the late 2nd millennium BC, later underlying the Median and Persian empires.
Ini-Teshub
Ini-Teššub was a king of Carchemish in the 13th century BC, ruling as viceroy in Syria for the Hittite Great Kings and attested by a treaty with Ugarit.
Inscriptions of Hanni
The Inscriptions of Hanni, also printed Hanne, are Neo-Elamite rock texts carved for Hanni son of Tahhi, local ruler of Ayapir in the Izeh valley, Khuzestan, Iran.
Inscriptions of Puzur-Insusinak
The Inscriptions of Puzur-Insusinak (Puzur-Šušinak inscriptions) are Akkadian and Linear Elamite texts of the last king of Awan, found at Susa and largely held in the Louvre.