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'Ain Samiya goblet
The 'Ain Samiya goblet is a conical silver cup decorated with mythological scenes, found in 1970 in a Bronze Age tomb near 'Ain Samiya in the Judean Hills.
Amarna letters of Abdi-Heba
The Amarna letters of Abdi-Heba, also called the Jerusalem letters (EA 285–290), are cuneiform letters from Jerusalem's ruler Abdi-Heba to the Egyptian pharaoh, the earliest texts from Jerusalem.
Amarna letters, Byblos corpus
The Byblos corpus of the Amarna letters, the largest single-correspondent group in the archive, contains about 70 appeals sent by Rib-Hadda of Byblos to pharaohs Amenhotep III and Akhenaten in the mid-fourteenth century BC.
Amurru (kingdom)
Amurru, also known as the Kingdom of Amurru, was a Late Bronze Age kingdom in western Syria and northern Lebanon, at times a Hittite vassal.
Anthropoid ceramic coffins
Anthropoid ceramic coffins are clay burial coffins shaped as tubs with lids molded as a human face, used in the Levant mainly in the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.
Baal Cycle
The Baal Cycle, also called the Baal Epic, is a group of six Ugaritic mythological tablets from Ugarit telling of Baal's combats with Yamm and Mot.
Baal with Thunderbolt
The Baal with Thunderbolt (Baal au foudre) is a limestone stele from Ugarit, found in 1932, showing the storm god Baal with a mace and thunderbolt, now in the Louvre.
Barga
Barga was a land or polity of northern Syria in the 14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters and Hittite texts of Muršili II's reign.
Beth Shean stelae
The Beth Shean stelae are Egyptian victory stelae of Seti I and Ramesses II, set up at Beth Shean in the Jordan Valley in the early 13th century BCE.
Byblos syllabary
The Byblos syllabary, also called the Byblos script or pseudo-hieroglyphic script of Byblos, is an undeciphered writing system known only from Byblos in Lebanon, discovered in 1929 and probably mainly syllabic.
Canaanean blade
Canaanean blades, also called Canaanite blades, are large standardized flint blades made by pressure flaking, used mainly as sickle and threshing-sledge inserts across the Bronze Age Near East.
Canaanite and Aramaic seal inscriptions
Canaanite and Aramaic seal inscriptions are short legends carved on Iron Age Levant stamp seals, key evidence for personal names, society, and early alphabetic writing.
Canaanites
The Canaanites were the Northwest Semitic inhabitants of Canaan, in Palestine and western Syria, during the Bronze Age, organized in independent city-states under Egyptian rule before 1200 BC.
Ebla tablets
The Ebla tablets, also called the Ebla archives, are over 15,000 cuneiform tablets from Ebla, Syria, written in Eblaite in the twenty-fourth century BCE and excavated by an Italian expedition between 1974 and 1976.
Ebla–Abarsal treaty
The Ebla–Abarsal treaty, also known as the Treaty between Ebla and Abarsal, is a clay tablet from Ebla, Syria, recording the oldest known peace treaty between two states, around 2350 BC.
Eblaite language
Eblaite is an archaic East Semitic language of the third quarter of the 3rd millennium BC, recorded in over 15,000 cuneiform tablets from the archives of Ebla in Syria.
Egyptian governor residencies
Egyptian governor residencies, also called Egyptian residencies in Canaan, were administrative centers built by New Kingdom Egypt in Canaan during the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.
Emar tablets
The Emar tablets, also known as the Emar archive, are a Late Bronze Age cuneiform archive of about 1,100 texts from Emar on the Euphrates, Syria.
Habiru
The Habiru, also written Apiru or Hapiru, were a marginalized social group in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, Syria, Canaan, and Egypt, known from texts including the 14th-century BC Amarna letters.
Idanda archive
The Idanda archive, also spelled Idadda, is a small royal administrative archive of clay tablets from the palace of Qatna, Syria, discovered in 2002 and dated around 1340 BC.
Jebusites
The Jebusites were a Canaanite people dwelling in and around Jerusalem in the Bronze and early Iron Ages, whose city David reportedly captured around 1000 BC.
KTU 1.41
KTU 1.41, also cataloged as RS 1.003 and CTA 35, is a Ugaritic ritual tablet from Ugarit prescribing month-long Vintage sacrifices, excavated in 1929 by Claude Schaeffer.
Lachish comb inscription
The Lachish comb inscription is a Canaanite sentence of 17 letters on an elephant-ivory comb from Tel Lachish, Israel, dated to about 1700–1550 BCE and wishing the tusk would root out lice.
Last letters of Ugarit
The last letters of Ugarit are cuneiform tablet letters from the final years of the Late Bronze Age kingdom of Ugarit, found in its destruction level.
Legend of Keret
The Legend of Keret is a Ugaritic epic poem on three clay tablets from Ugarit, telling of King Kirta's loss of family and divine promise of offspring.
Megiddo ivories
The Megiddo ivories are a hoard of 382 carved Bronze Age ivory pieces, furniture decorations, cosmetics items, and game boards, found in 1937 at Megiddo, northern Israel.
Megiddo Treasure
The Megiddo Treasure is a jewelry hoard found at Tel Megiddo, Israel, in 2010, hidden in a ceramic jug and dated to around 1100 BC.
Mistress of the Animals (Minet el-Beida)
The Mistress of the Animals is a Late Bronze Age carved ivory pyxis lid from Tomb III at Minet el-Beida, Ugarit's harbor, showing a goddess nourishing wild goats.
Niya (kingdom)
Niya, also written Nii, was a Late Bronze Age kingdom in the middle Orontes valley of western Syria, known almost entirely from Hittite cuneiform texts.
Nuhašše
Nuhašše was a land, or group of lands, in northwestern Syria east of the Orontes between Aleppo and Hama, whose kings appear in the Amarna letters and Hittite treaties.