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Ammistamru I
Ammistamru I, also known as Ammittamru I, was a Bronze Age king of Ugarit on the Syrian coast, subordinate to Egypt's Amenophis III and father of Niqmaddu II.
Ammistamru II
Ammistamru II, also written Ammittamru II, was king of Ugarit in western Syria in the mid-13th century BC, known for his divorce from the daughter of Benteshina of Amurru.
Ammitaqum
Ammitaqum, also written Ammitakum, was a king of Alalakh, modern Tell Atchana in Turkey, who ruled in the seventeenth century BC as the last attested king of the Level VII dynasty.
Ammonite inscriptions
Ammonite inscriptions are the written record of the Iron Age kingdom of Ammon in the Transjordan, mostly seals dating from the ninth to fifth centuries BC.
Ammonite language
Ammonite is the Canaanite language of the Iron Age kingdom of Ammon, centered on Rabbat 'Ammān (modern Amman, Jordan), attested from the 9th to the 5th centuries BCE.
Ammonite revolt against Babylon
The Ammonite revolt against Babylon was a 594/593 BC conspiracy in which an Ammonite king joined envoys of Edom, Moab, Tyre, and Sidon plotting against Nebuchadnezzar II.
Ammuladdin
Ammuladdin, also known as Ammuladi, was a king of the Qedarites, an Arab tribal polity, who joined raids on Assyria's western provinces around 652 BC and was repulsed by the Moabites.
Ammunira
Ammunira of Biruta was the ruler of Beirut, called Biruta in the letters, in the mid-14th century BCE, known only from letters he wrote to the pharaohs preserved in the Amarna archive.
Ammurapi
Ammurapi, also known as Amurapi, was the last king of Ugarit, reigning from 1215 BC until the kingdom fell around 1190–1185 BC during the Late Bronze Age collapse.
Amurru (kingdom)
Amurru, also known as the Kingdom of Amurru, was a Late Bronze Age kingdom in western Syria and northern Lebanon, at times a Hittite vassal.
Amurru defection to the Hittites
The Amurru defection to the Hittites was King Aziru's abandonment of Egyptian overlordship for a vassal treaty with Šuppiluliuma I of Hatti, costing Egypt its main foothold on the northern Levantine coast.
Amut-pi'el II
Amut-pi'el II, also known as Amut-Pi-El, was a king of Qatna, a Middle Bronze Age kingdom in western Syria at Tall Mišrife, who reigned around 1720–1700 BC.
Ananiah (son of Azariah)
Ananiah, son of Azariah, also rendered Anani, was a Jewish servitor of the temple of Yahu at Elephantine in Egypt, known from his family archive of Aramaic papyri.
Annexation of Carchemish
The annexation of Carchemish, also called the Assyrian conquest of Carchemish, was Sargon II's 717 BC conquest of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Carchemish on the Euphrates.
Annexation of Kummuh
The annexation of Kummuh was the absorption of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Kummuh, also known as Commagene, into the Assyrian empire by Sargon II in 708 BC.
Anthropoid ceramic coffins
Anthropoid ceramic coffins are clay burial coffins shaped as tubs with lids molded as a human face, used in the Levant mainly in the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.
Arad ostraca
The Arad ostraca, also known as the Arad letters, are Hebrew ink inscriptions on pottery from the Judahite fortress at Tel Arad, written around 600 BCE.
Aram Rehob
Aram Rehob, also called Beth-Rehob or Bit Rehob, was a small Aramean state of the 10th and 9th centuries BC near Dan, remembered as an ally of Aram-Zobah against David.
Aram-Damascus
Aram-Damascus, also known as the Aramean kingdom of Damascus, was an Aramean kingdom centered on Damascus, the principal Aramean state of the 9th and 8th centuries BC.
Arame (king of Arpad)
Arame, also known as Arame of Bit-Agusi, was the second king of Bit Agusi in northern Syria, who submitted to Assyria's Shalmaneser III in 858 BCE.
Aramean migrations
The Aramean migrations were the movements of Aramaic-speaking tribes across the Fertile Crescent in the late 2nd millennium BC, producing Aramaean states including Damascus, Hamath, and Bit-Adini.
Aramean siege of Samaria
The Aramean siege of Samaria was an attack on Israel's capital by Ben-Hadad of Damascus with 32 allied kings, narrated in 1 Kings 20 under Ahab.
Aramean states
The Aramean states, also called Aramaean states, were small Iron Age kingdoms of Syria and upper Mesopotamia ruled by Aramaic-speaking dynasts and absorbed into the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Aretas I (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas I, also known as Harithat, was the earliest known king of the Nabataeans, the Arab people whose capital was Petra, first named in the king list around 168 BC.
Aretas II (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas II (Nabataean ḥrtt, Arabic Ḥārthah) was king of the Nabataeans around 103–96 BC, known through Josephus and coins, and linked to the siege of Gaza.
Aretas III (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas III, also known as Aretas Philhellenos or Harithath III, was king of the Nabataeans from about 87 to 62 BC, ruling from Petra and taking Damascus.
Aretas IV (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas IV, also known as Harithath IV, was king of the Nabataeans from about 9 BC to AD 40, ruling from Petra at the kingdom's peak.
Aretas IV's seizure of Damascus
Aretas IV's seizure of Damascus was the transfer of the city to the Nabataean king Aretas IV around AD 37, known mainly from 2 Corinthians 11:32.
Arhalba
Arḫalba, also Arhalbu, was a king of Ugarit in Bronze Age Syria, deposed by the Hittite king Muršili II after a reign of about two years.
Aristobulus III
Aristobulus III, Hebrew name Jonathan, was the last Hasmonean high priest of Judea and brother of Herod the Great's wife Mariamne, appointed in 36 BCE and drowned at Jericho in 35 BCE.