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Shuwardata
Šuwardata, also Suwardata, was a Canaanite ruler of the mid-14th century BC, probably master of Gath and nearby Keilah, known from four Amarna letters to the Egyptian king.
Sidqa (king of Ashkelon)
Sidqa, also written Ṣidqia or Sidqia, was a Philistine king of Ashkelon who joined the anti-Assyrian coalition of 701 BC and was deported to Assyria by Sennacherib.
Siege of Arpad (743–740 BC)
The Siege of Arpad (743–740 BC) was the campaign by which Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III conquered Arpad, capital of the Aramean kingdom Bît-Aguši in northern Syria, after a battle with Urartu in 743 BC.
Siege of Damascus (841 BC)
The siege of Damascus in 841 BC was Shalmaneser III of Assyria's campaign against Hazael of Aram-Damascus, who was defeated in battle but not deposed.
Siege of Ekron
The siege of Ekron in 701 BC was Sennacherib of Assyria's suppression of a revolt in the Philistine city of Ekron, whose people had deposed King Padi.
Siege of Gath by Hazael
Hazael's capture of Gath was the siege and capture of the Philistine city of Gath by Hazael, king of Aram-Damascus, around 830 BCE, recorded in 2 Kings 12:17-19.
Siege of Hadrach
The Siege of Hadrach is the conventional name for the Assyrian campaigns of Adad-nirari III against Hadrach, or Hatarikka, in northern Syria in the early eighth century BC.
Siege of Hazrak
The Siege of Hazrak was the blockade of Hazrak, likely Tell Afis near Aleppo, by a coalition under Bar-Hadad of Aram against Zakkur of Hamath around 790-780 BCE.
Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC)
The siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC was Nebuchadnezzar II's capture of the city of Judah, ending with King Jehoiachin's deportation to Babylon and Zedekiah installed as vassal.
Siege of Lachish
The siege of Lachish was an Assyrian assault in 701 BC by King Sennacherib on Lachish, Judah's second most important city, which fell while Jerusalem survived.
Sil-Bel
Sil-Bel, also known as Silibel or Sillibel, was a king of Gaza who stayed loyal to Assyria from Sennacherib's 701 BC campaign into Ashurbanipal's reign.
Siloam Inscription
The Siloam Inscription, also called the Siloam tunnel inscription or Shiloah Inscription, is a six-line Hebrew inscription in Hezekiah's Tunnel, Jerusalem, commemorating the tunnel's completion around 700 BC and now held in Istanbul.
Sinaranu
Sinaranu (Akkadian Ṣinaruna) was a private merchant of Bronze Age Ugarit whose ship and cargo of grain, beer, and olive oil were exempted from palace dues on arrival from Crete.
Šinuḫtu
Šinuḫtu (also written Shinuhtu) was a small Neo-Hittite kingdom in the Tabal region of southern Anatolia, whose king Kiyakiya was exiled by Sargon II around 718 BC.
Šipti-Ba'lu
Šipti-Ba'lu, also Shipti-Ba'al, was a Canaanite city-state ruler of the mid-14th century BC in the Shephelah, known from the Amarna letters, which accuse him of conspiring against Egypt.
Sipti-Baal
Sipti-Baal, also rendered Shipṭi-Baʿlu, was a Canaanite ruler of the mid-14th century BC known from the Amarna letters, where he denied conspiring against the pharaoh.
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.
Stele of Ördek-Burnu
The Stele of Ördek-Burnu is a basalt mortuary stele of the Iron Age kingdom of Sam'al, found in 1888 near Zincirli in southern Turkey and now held in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums.
Suhi II
Suhi II was a ruler of the Iron Age city of Karkemish on the Euphrates around 950 BC, best known as the builder of the Long Wall of Sculpture.
Suhis I
Suhis I, also known as Suhi I, was an early 10th-century BC ruler of Carchemish, in north Syria, who served Great King Ura-Tarhunza as his kinsman.
Suhis inscription
The Suhis inscription is a Hieroglyphic Luwian royal building text carved on the Long Wall of Sculpture at Carchemish by Suhi II, who ruled the city around 950 BC.
Sulumal
Sulumal was king of Melid, a Neo-Hittite kingdom on the Malatya Plain in eastern Anatolia, known from the tribute lists of Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria in the mid-eighth century BC.
Sumu-Epuh
Sumu-Epuh, also written Sumu-epeh, was the founding king of the Hambe dynasty of Yamhad, the Amorite kingdom centered on Aleppo, reigning from about 1810 to 1780 BC and succeeded by his son Yarim-Lim I.
Suppiluliuma (Patina)
Suppiluliuma of Patina, also known as Suppiluliuma of Unqi, was a Syro-Hittite king in the Amuq valley of north Syria, flourishing in the 9th century BC.
Suppiluliuma's Syrian campaigns
Suppiluliuma's Syrian campaigns were the mid-14th-century BC wars by which Hittite king Suppiluliuma I broke Mitanni's power, defeated Tusratta, and extended Hittite rule over most of northern Syria.
Surata (ruler of Acco)
Surata, also transliterated Šurata, was ruler of the Canaanite city of Acco in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, known from the Amarna letters as a loyal Egyptian vassal.
Surri
Surri was a usurper who seized the throne of the Syro-Hittite kingdom of Patina around 831 BC and was strangled to death by Assyrian forces.
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.
Syro-Ephraimite War
The Syro-Ephraimite War, also called the Syro-Ephraimitic War, was a conflict of c. 734–732 BC in which Damascus under Rezin and Israel under Pekah attacked Judah and besieged Jerusalem.
Syro-Hittite states
The Syro-Hittite states, also called Neo-Hittite kingdoms, were Iron Age kingdoms of northern Syria and southeast Anatolia that emerged after the Hittite empire collapsed around 1200 BC.