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Ta'anakh cult stand
The Ta'anakh cult stand, also spelled Taanach cult stand, is an elaborately decorated clay cult stand excavated at Taanach, near Megiddo, in 1968 and dated to the 10th century BC.
Tabua (queen of Qedar)
Tabūʾa was a queen of the Qedarite Arabs around 681–676 BC, returned by Esarhaddon with the Arabs' gods to be "ruler over them", known only from Assyrian inscriptions.
Tabur-Damu
Tabur-Damu was a queen consort of Ebla, a city-state in north-west Syria, in the 24th century BC, wife of the last king Isar-damu and known from the Ebla tablets.
Tagi (ruler of Ginti)
Tagi was a Canaanite ruler of the city of Ginti, known from the Amarna letters of the mid-14th century BC and allied with Milkilu of Gezer.
Taita (Luwian king)
Taita (Luwian Taitas) was the earliest known king of Palistin, an early Iron Age kingdom of the 'Amuq plain and northern Syria, dated to the 11th or 10th century BC.
Takuhlinu
Takuhlinu was a governor of the Levantine kingdom of Ugarit in the 13th century BC, known from an Akkadian letter found at Tel Aphek in Israel.
Tarhulara
Tarḫulara of Gurgum was a Neo-Hittite king whose capital, Marqasi, stood at modern Kahramanmaraş in Turkey; he paid tribute to Assyria before being murdered by his son.
Tarhunazi
Tarhunazi, also rendered Tarhunazas, was the last independent king of Melid, a Syro-Hittite kingdom at Arslantepe near Malatya, installed by Sargon II and deposed in 712 BC.
Tattenai
Tattenai (Tatnai) was the Persian governor of Beyond the River under Darius I, who inquired into the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple around 520 BC.
Tayma inscriptions
The Tayma inscriptions, also called the Teima inscriptions, are a corpus of 131 texts carved at the oasis of Tayma in northwest Saudi Arabia, mostly in Aramaic.
Tayma Stele of Nabonidus
The Tayma Stele of Nabonidus is a fragmentary stone monument of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, discovered at the oasis of Tayma in Arabia in 2004 and inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform.
Te'elhunu
Te'elhunu, also written Te'el-hunu, was a queen of the Arabs who fought the Assyrian king Sennacherib around 690 BC and was captured and carried off to Assyria with the gods of the Arabs.
Tel Dan Stele
The Tel Dan Stele, also called the House of David inscription, is a 9th-century BC Aramaic victory stele found at Tel Dan in northern Israel in 1993–94.
Tel Qasile ostracon
The Tel Qasile ostraca are two pottery sherds written in early Hebrew, found at Tell Qasile on Israel's Yarkon River and dated to the eighth century BCE.
Tel Rehov apiary inscriptions
The Tel Rehov apiary inscriptions are eleven short inscriptions of the 10th–9th centuries BCE, found on storage jars at Tel Rehov, a major Iron Age city in northern Israel.
Tel Zayit abecedary
The Tel Zayit abecedary is a limestone boulder incised with the complete 22-letter Canaanite alphabet, found in Israel in 2005 and dated to the tenth century BC.
Tell Ahmar inscriptions
The Tell Ahmar inscriptions, also called the Til Barsip Luwian inscriptions, are Hieroglyphic Luwian stelae of the 10th and 9th centuries BC erected by the rulers of Masuwari, Assyria's Til-Barsip, on the Euphrates in Syria.
Tell es-Safi ostracon
The Tell es-Safi ostracon, also called the Tell es-Safi inscription, is a pottery sherd from Philistine Gath in Israel, incised with seven letters around 950 BCE and read as two names, one close to Goliath.
Tell Fekheriye bilingual
The Tell Fekheriye bilingual, or Fakhariyah inscription, is a 9th-century BC Akkadian–Aramaic inscription on a basalt statue of ruler Haddu-yith'i, found in northeastern Syria in 1979.
Tell Siran bottle
The Tell Siran bottle is a small bronze bottle found in 1972 at Tell Siran near Amman, bearing a complete 92-letter Ammonite inscription naming three generations of Ammonite kings.
Tell Tayinat inscriptions
The Tell Tayinat inscriptions, or Tayinat Luwian inscriptions, are Hieroglyphic Luwian royal inscriptions of the Iron Age kingdom Assyrians called Patina, whose capital Kunulua stood at Tell Tayinat.
Temple Warning inscription
The Temple Warning inscription is a Greek stone notice barring foreigners from the inner courts of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, on pain of death.
Tette
Tette, also rendered Titti, was a 14th-century BC king of Nuḫašše in inland Syria, installed as a Hittite vassal by Šuppiluliuma I and later deposed.
Three shekel ostracon
The Three shekel ostracon is an inscribed pottery sherd recording a donation of three shekels of silver to the Temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem, now widely regarded as a probable forgery.
Tibni
Tibni, son of Ginath, was a rival of Omri for the throne of the northern kingdom of Israel around 885 BC, mentioned only in 1 Kings 16.
Tiglath-Pileser III's campaign to Philistia and Transjordan
Tiglath-Pileser III's campaign to Philistia and Transjordan was a series of Assyrian campaigns in 734–732 BC that reduced the Philistine cities and Galilee to tribute and annexed Damascus.
Tiglath-Pileser III's Syro-Hittite campaigns
The Levantine campaigns of Tiglath-Pileser III (743–738 BC) were Assyrian operations that defeated Urartu, annexed Arpad after a three-year siege, and took Unqi and Hamat.
Tirshatha
Tirshatha (Hebrew תִּרְשָׁתָא) is a foreign-derived title, understood as Persian for "governor," applied in Ezra and Nehemiah to Zerubbabel and Nehemiah, governors of Persian-period Judah.
Tobiah (Ammonite official)
Tobiah, also known as Toviyyah, was an Ammonite magnate of the mid-5th century BC who, with Sanballat and Geshem, opposed Nehemiah's rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls in 445 BC.
Toi (king of Hamath)
Toi, also spelled Tou, was the king of Hamath in the Hebrew Bible who sent his son with gifts to David after David defeated Hadadezer of Zobah.