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Sanballat II
Sanballat II was a governor of Samaria in the early-to-mid fourth century BCE, a member of the Sanballatid line known from the Wadi Daliyeh papyri.
Sangara of Carchemish
Sangara of Carchemish, also rendered Sangar, was king of Carchemish on the Euphrates in the mid-ninth century BC, known from the annals of Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III as a tributary, adversary, and subject.
Sapalulme
Sapalulme (Akkadian Šapalulme) was a king of Pattin, a Neo-Hittite kingdom in the Plain of Antioch, who resisted the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III in the campaigns of 858–857 BC.
Sargon II's campaign against Ashdod
Sargon II's campaign against Ashdod, also known as the Capture of Ashdod (712 BC), was the Assyrian suppression of a revolt in Ashdod in 711 BC.
Sastura
Sastura was the vizier, styled "first servant", of King Kamani of Karkemish, a Neo-Hittite kingdom on the Euphrates, in the early 8th century BC, known from hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions at the site.
Satatna
Satatna, also printed Shutatna, was a Canaanite ruler of Akka (modern Acre) in the mid-14th century BC, known from a single mention in the Amarna letters.
Šatiya
Šatiya, also known as Shatiya, was the mayor of Enišasi in the Levant who wrote Amarna letter EA 187 to the Egyptian king in the mid-14th century BC.
Seal of Gemariah son of Shaphan
The Seal of Gemariah son of Shaphan is a clay bulla excavated in Jerusalem in 1982, inscribed for a royal official named in Jeremiah 36.
Seal of Shema
The Seal of Shema, servant of Jeroboam, is a jasper seal with a roaring lion, found at Megiddo in 1904 and lost in Topkapi Palace, Istanbul.
Sefire Steles
The Sefire Steles are three basalt stelae from Sefire near Aleppo, Syria, inscribed in Old Aramaic with a mid-8th-century BC vassal treaty between Bar-ga'yah of KTK and Mati'el of Arpad.
Sela inscription
The Sela inscription, also written Sela' or as-Sila', is a Neo-Babylonian cuneiform rock inscription and relief of Nabonidus, last king of Babylon, carved on a cliff in southern Jordan.
Sennacherib's campaign against Hazael of Qedar
Sennacherib's campaign against Hazael of Qedar was an Assyrian military expedition against the Arab tribes of North Arabia between 691 and 689 BCE, capturing the desert fortress of Adummatu.
Sennacherib's campaign against Judah
Sennacherib's campaign against Judah, also called Sennacherib's campaign to Philistia and Judah, was a 701 BC Assyrian invasion in which Sennacherib took 46 Judahite cities and blockaded Hezekiah in Jerusalem.
Shallum (king of Israel)
Shallum, son of Jabesh, was king of the northern kingdom of Israel for one month around 752 BC, having murdered King Zechariah before being killed by Menahem.
Shanipu
Shanipu, also rendered Sanipu, was king of Ammon, a kingdom on the Transjordanian plateau east of the Jordan River, who paid tribute to the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III in 734 BC.
Shaphan
Shaphan (Hebrew שפן) was the royal scribe of Judah under King Josiah in the late 7th century BC, who reported the law book found in the Temple.
Shapili
Shapili, also rendered Šapili, was a 13th-century BC king of Amurru, a Hittite vassal kingdom in western Syria, installed by Muwatalli II after Benteshina's rebellion and later removed when Benteshina was restored.
Shaqilath
Shaqilath, also spelled Shaqilat, was a queen of the Nabataeans who married King Aretas IV around 16/17 AD and co-issued coins with him at Petra.
Shaqilath II
Shaqilath II, also spelled Shuqilat, was a queen of the Nabataeans, wife of King Malichus II and regent for her infant son Rabbel II between AD 70/71 and 75/76.
Sharri-Kusuh
Sharri-Kusuh, also known as Piyaššili, was the first Hittite viceroy king of Carchemish in northern Syria, appointed by his father, the Hittite great king Šuppiluliuma I, in the 14th century BC.
Sharru-lu-dari
Sharru-lu-dari, also known as Šarru-lū-dāri, meaning "May the king be everlasting", was a king of Ashkelon, son of Rukibtu, installed by Sennacherib after the Assyrian campaign of 701 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.
Shaushgamuwa
Shaushgamuwa, also spelled Saušgamuwa, was king of Amurru, a Hittite vassal kingdom in Syria, in the late 13th century BC under the Hittite great king Tudhaliya IV.
Sheba son of Bichri
Sheba son of Bichri, also known as Sheba ben Bichri, is a Benjaminite in 2 Samuel 20 who led a revolt against King David after Absalom's rebellion.
Shebna
Shebna, also Shebnayahu, was the royal steward of Judah under King Hezekiah in the late eighth century BC, whom Isaiah condemned and foretold would be replaced by Eliakim.
Shema (servant of Jeroboam)
Shema was an official of the kingdom of Israel known only from his jasper seal, excavated at Megiddo in 1904 and inscribed "Belonging to Shema, servant of Jeroboam".
Sheshbazzar
Sheshbazzar was a Judean leader of the early Persian period, appointed governor by Cyrus, who led the first returnees from the Babylonian Exile around 538 BC.
Sheshonq I's campaign to Palestine
Sheshonq I's campaign to Palestine, also known as Shishak's campaign, was an Egyptian military expedition into Judah and Israel around 925 BCE, recorded at Karnak and in the Bible.
Shuta (Egyptian official)
Shuta (Akkadian Šuta) was an Egyptian commissioner of the late Eighteenth Dynasty, named in Amarna letter EA 234, where the ruler of Akko protests against him.
Shutatarra
Shutatarra, also written Šutatarra or Suttarna, was a king of Kadesh on the Orontes in western Syria, flourishing around 1350 BC during the Amarna period.