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Plastered human skulls
Plastered human skulls are Neolithic Levant skulls, about 8000 to 6000 BC, whose faces were remodelled in plaster, often with shells in the eye sockets.
Rapanu archive
The Rapanu archive is the private library of tablets from the house of Rapanu, a diplomat at Ugarit on the Syrian coast, buried by the city's destruction around 1190–1185 BC.
Shasu
The Shasu were semi-nomadic pastoralists of the Sinai, Negev, and Transjordan whom Egyptian texts from Thutmosis III to Ramesses III record; some lists mention Yhw, linked to Yahweh.
Statue of Idrimi
The Statue of Idrimi is an inscribed magnesite statue of King Idrimi of Alalakh in southern Turkey, bearing a 104-line Akkadian autobiography and held in the British Museum.
Suteans
The Suteans (Akkadian Sutû) were Semitic nomadic tribes of the Syrian desert, first recorded near Mari as raiders and later serving as mercenaries across Mesopotamia.
Tupkish dynasty of Urkesh
The Tupkish dynasty was the Hurrian ruling house of the ancient city of Urkesh at Tell Mozan in northeastern Syria, founded by King Tupkish around 2250 BC.
Ugaritic alphabet
The Ugaritic alphabet, also called Ugaritic cuneiform, is a cuneiform abjad of 30 signs used at the Syrian city of Ugarit from the 14th century BC until about 1185 BC.
Ugaritic language
Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic language spoken at Ugarit on the north Syrian coast, written in an alphabetic cuneiform script of 30 signs, attested mainly in the 13th century BCE.
Ugaritic texts
The Ugaritic texts, also called the Ras Shamra tablets, are clay tablets excavated since 1929 at Ras Shamra, the site of ancient Ugarit on the north Syrian coast.
Urtenu archive
The Urtenu archive is a corpus of about 650 cuneiform tablets excavated since the 1980s at Ras Shamra, ancient Ugarit in Syria, dating to roughly 1225–1185 BC and including royal correspondence.
Yamhad
Yamhad, also written Yamkhad, was an Amorite kingdom of the Middle Bronze Age centered on Aleppo in northwestern Syria, a great power from around 1800 BC.
Yamhad dynasty
The Yamhad dynasty, also called the Yamhadite dynasty, was an Amorite royal dynasty that ruled Yamhad, centered on Halab (Aleppo), in the early second millennium BC.