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Ahuni (king of Bit-Adini)
Ahuni, also written Aḫuni, was the last king of Bit-Adini, an Aramaean kingdom on the middle Euphrates south of Carchemish, defeated and captured by the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III around 855 BC.
Akizzi
Akizzi was a king of Qatna, at Tell Mishrifeh in Syria, who flourished in the mid-14th century BC and is known chiefly as a correspondent of Pharaoh Akhenaten in the Amarna letters.
Al-Walid ibn Mus'ab
Al-Walid ibn Mus'ab (الوليد بن مصعب) is a legendary Amalekite king of Egypt in medieval Arabic chronicles, identified by many Muslim traditionists as the Pharaoh of Moses.
Aleppo temple of the Storm God inscriptions
The Aleppo temple of the Storm God inscriptions are Hieroglyphic Luwian royal inscriptions of King Taita of Palistin, carved on the Aleppo citadel in the 11th century BC.
Alexander Jannaeus's conquest of Gaza
Alexander Jannaeus's conquest of Gaza was the Hasmonean king's year-long siege and capture of the wealthy Arabian-trade port of Gaza around 96 BC, ending the city's independence.
Amarna letter EA 100
Amarna letter EA 100 is a 14th-century BC clay tablet in which the city of Irqata and its elders pledge loyalty to the king of Egypt.
Amarna letter EA 144
Amarna letter EA 144 is a mid-14th-century BC cuneiform tablet sent by the ruler of Sidon to the Egyptian court, part of the Amarna correspondence found at Tell el-Amarna.
Amarna letter EA 149
Amarna letter EA 149 is a clay tablet letter from Abimilku of Tyre to the Egyptian pharaoh, found at el-Amarna and kept in the British Museum.
Amarna letter EA 158
Amarna letter EA 158 is a clay tablet letter from Aziru, ruler of Amurru, to the Egyptian official Tutu, written in Akkadian cuneiform in the mid-14th century BC.
Amarna letter EA 205
Amarna letter EA 205 is a mid-14th-century BC clay tablet in the Amarna correspondence, sent by the ruler of Tuba to the king of Egypt.
Amarna letter EA 252
Amarna letter EA 252 is a clay tablet letter from Lab'ayu, ruler of Shechem, defending himself against rebellion accusations before the Egyptian pharaoh in the mid-14th century BC.
Amarna letter EA 254
Amarna letter EA 254 is a mid-14th-century BCE clay tablet letter from Lab'ayu, ruler of Shechem, defending himself to the Egyptian king against accusations of disloyalty.
Amarna letter EA 270
Amarna letter EA 270 is a cuneiform tablet from Milkilu, ruler of Gezer, to the Egyptian king, begging relief from Yanhamu's demand of 2,000 shekels of silver.
Amarna letter EA 271
Amarna letter EA 271 is a fourteenth-century BC clay tablet letter sent by Milkilu, ruler of Canaanite Gezer, to the Egyptian king, now kept in Berlin.
Amarna letter EA 287
Amarna letter EA 287 is a cuneiform clay letter from Abdi-Heba, ruler of Urusalim (Jerusalem), to the king of Egypt in the mid-14th century BC.
Amarna letter EA 288
Amarna letter EA 288 is a cuneiform clay letter from Abdi-Heba, ruler of Urusalim (Jerusalem), to the king of Egypt, found in the archive at Tell el-Amarna in 1887.
Amarna letter EA 299
Amarna letter EA 299 is a cuneiform tablet from the 14th century BCE in which Yapahu, ruler of Gezer, begs the Egyptian pharaoh for help against the ʿApiru.
Amarna letter EA 323
Amarna letter EA 323 is a small clay tablet from the Amarna archive in Egypt, written in cuneiform Akkadian by Yidya, ruler of Ashkelon, to the Egyptian king in the mid-14th century BC.
Amarna letter EA 325
Amarna letter EA 325 is a clay tablet letter from Yidya, ruler of Ashkelon, to the Egyptian king, written in Akkadian cuneiform in the mid-fourteenth century BCE.
Amarna letter EA 330
Amarna letter EA 330 is a clay tablet in Akkadian cuneiform, written by Šipṭi-Ba'la, ruler of Lachish, to the Egyptian king in the fourteenth century BC.
Amarna letter EA 362
Amarna letter EA 362 is a clay tablet sent from Rib-Haddi of Byblos to the Egyptian pharaoh in the mid-14th century BC, now in the Louvre.
Amarna letter EA 365
Amarna letter EA 365 is a 31-line Akkadian cuneiform tablet written by Biridiya, mayor of Megiddo, to the pharaoh, now held in the Louvre Museum.
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.
Amaziah of Judah
Amaziah of Judah was a king of Judah, son of Joash, who defeated the Edomites, lost a war against Israel, and was assassinated at Lachish.
Amenhotep II's Syrian campaign
Amenhotep II's Syrian campaign of Year 9 was the last recorded military expedition of the 18th-Dynasty pharaoh, a punitive advance confined to Palestine as far as the Sea of Galilee.
Amman Citadel inscription
The Amman Citadel inscription is an Ammonite building inscription of eight lines found in 1961 on the Citadel Hill of Amman, Jordan, among the earliest known texts in the Ammonite language.
Ammi-ba'al
Ammi-ba'al, also rendered Ammi-ba'lī, was an Aramaean king of Bīt-Zamāni in the Upper Tigris valley, reduced to vassalage by Assyria and assassinated by his own nobles in 879 BC.
Amminadab I of Ammon
Amminadab I was a king of Ammon in the mid-seventh century BC, attested in Assyrian records as a tribute-paying vassal, ruling from Rabbat-Ammon, modern Amman, Jordan.
Amminadab II of Ammon
Amminadab II was a king of Ammon in the later seventh century BCE, known only from the Tall Siran bronze bottle, which names him as son of King Hissal'el.