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Arrukum
Arrukum was a great vizier of the Syrian city-state of Ebla, head of its administration under king Irkab-damu in the second quarter of the 24th century BC.
Arslan Tash amulets
The Arslan Tash amulets are two limestone plaques bought at Arslan Tash in northern Syria in 1933, carrying Phoenician protective incantations in Aramaic script, dated to the 7th century BCE and long disputed as possible forgeries.
Arslan Tash ivory inscription
The Arslan Tash ivory inscription is a short Aramaic text on an ivory furniture veneer naming Hazael, king of Damascus, found at Arslan Tash, Syria, in 1928.
Arsuz stelae
The Arsuz stelae are two near-identical basalt stelae of the later tenth century BC, found in 2007 at Uluçınar in Hatay, Turkey, bearing Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions of King Suppiluliuma of Walastin.
Ashdoda
The Ashdoda is an Iron Age clay figurine from Ashdod depicting a seated goddess whose body merges into her chair, a hallmark of early Philistine religion.
Assassination of Gedaliah
The assassination of Gedaliah, also called the murder of Gedaliah, was the killing of Gedaliah, Judah's Babylonian-appointed governor, by Ishmael son of Nethaniah at Mizpah after 586 BC.
Assurbanipal's campaign against Yauta' of Qedar
Assurbanipal's campaign against Yauta' (Uate') of Qedar was a series of Assyrian military operations in North Arabia, begun around 652 BC when Yauta' joined a Babylonian revolt.
Assyrian conquest of Galilee
The Assyrian conquest of Galilee, also called the Tiglath-Pileser III campaign against Israel, annexed Galilee and Gilead in 734-732 BC, leaving Israel a vassal under Hoshea.
Astiru
Astiru, also read Astiruwa or Asti-Ruwas, was an early Iron Age king of Carchemish, a Neo-Hittite city-state on the Euphrates, known only from Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions and dated to about 810 BC.
Astiru II
Astiru II was a Neo-Hittite king of Carchemish who ruled around 755 BC, the penultimate king of the House of Sastura before Pisiri, and is known from the only monumental cuneiform inscription of a Neo-Hittite ruler.
Astiruwa
Astiruwa, also known as Astiru or Asti-Ruwas, was a ruler of the Syro-Hittite kingdom of Carchemish around 810 BC, founder of the dynasty called the House of Astiruwa.
Astuwatamanzas
Astuwatamanzas, also read Astuwalamanza, was an early Iron Age ruler of Carchemish on the Euphrates in northern Syria, of the house of Suhi, dated to about the 10th century BC.
Atarshumki I
Atarshumki I, also written Attar-šumki or Attarsumki, was a king of the Aramean kingdom of Bit Agusi in northern Syria, defeated by the Assyrian king Adad-nirari III.
Athaliah (עֲתַלְיָה)
Athaliah was a queen of Judah who reigned from 841 to 835 BC, the only ruling queen in the biblical record, before being deposed by the priest Jehoiada.
Attenu
Attenu, also known as Attanu, was a Hurrian diviner and chief priest in the Late Bronze Age kingdom of Ugarit, known as the teacher of the scribe Ilimilku.
Awarikus
Awarikus, also written Awariku or Warika and probably the Urikki of Assyrian records, was an 8th-century BC king of Ḫiyawa, the Iron Age kingdom in the Cilician plain that Assyrian sources call Que.
Aya-rammu
Aya-rammu, also rendered Aya-ramu or 'Ilāya-rām, was king of Edom around 701 BC, listed in Sennacherib's annals among the Levantine rulers who submitted to Assyria.
Ayyab
Ayyab, also spelled Ayab, was a Levantine vassal ruler of the mid-fourteenth century BC, known from the Amarna letters as the writer of letter EA 364 to the Egyptian king.
Azi (scribe)
Azi was a scribe of Ebla, a 24th-century BC city-state in western Syria, known from signed and colophoned lexical tablets of the Royal Palace G archive.
Aziru
Aziru, also known as Azira, was ruler of Amurru, a kingdom in coastal Syria and part of Lebanon, succeeding his father Abdi-Aŝirta around 1345 BCE.
Azuri
Azuri was a king of Ashdod, a Philistine city and Assyrian vassal, whom Sargon II deposed in the 710s BC for withholding tribute and plotting against Assyria.
Baal Cycle
The Baal Cycle, also called the Baal Epic, is a group of six Ugaritic mythological tablets from Ugarit telling of Baal's combats with Yamm and Mot.
Baal with Thunderbolt
The Baal with Thunderbolt (Baal au foudre) is a limestone stele from Ugarit, found in 1932, showing the storm god Baal with a mace and thunderbolt, now in the Louvre.
Baal-hanan
Baal-hanan (בַּעַל חָנָן) is an Edomite king in the Hebrew Bible's Genesis 36 list, the seventh of eight rulers who reigned before Israel had kings; he was the son of Achbor.
Baalis
Ba'alis was an early 6th-century BC king of the Ammonites, known from Jeremiah 40:14 and two seals, who sent the assassin that killed Gedaliah, Babylon's governor of Judah, after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC.
Baasha (king of Ammon)
Baasha, son of Ruhubi, was king of Ammon, a small kingdom in Transjordan, who led troops against Shalmaneser III of Assyria at Qarqar in 853 BC.
Baasha (king of Israel)
Baasha, son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar, was king of the northern kingdom of Israel, reigning about 24 years after assassinating King Nadab at Gibbethon.
Bagohi
Bagohi (also Bagavahya, or Bagoas) was the Persian governor of Yehud under Darius II, known from the Elephantine papyri, active around 410 to 407 BCE.
Balu'a Stele
The Balu'a Stele, also called the Al-Balu'a Stele, is a basalt relief monument found in 1930 at Khirbet al-Balu'a in Jordan, bearing an undeciphered hieroglyphic-style inscription.
Bar-Rakib
Bar-Rakib, also Bar-Rekub, was king of Samʾal, an Aramean kingdom in the northern Levant, from about 733 to 713 BC, the last king known from inscriptions at Zincirli.