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Enūma Anu Enlil
Enūma Anu Enlil, also written Enuma Anu Ellil, is the canonical Babylonian omen series for celestial divination, compiled in its present form around 1000 BC.
Enūma Eliš
Enūma Eliš, also called Enuma Elish, is a Babylonian Akkadian creation poem on seven tablets, probably composed in the twelfth century BC, celebrating the god Marduk.
Eponym Chronicle
The Eponym Chronicle is an Assyrian text detailing annual limmu and events from 857 BC to 700 BC. It fixes regnal years for the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Eriba-Adad I
Eriba-Adad I (Erība-Adad) was king of Assyria from about 1380 to 1354 BC, recorded in the Assyrian King List and succeeded by his son Aššur-uballit I.
Eriba-Adad II
Eriba-Adad II was king of Assyria from about 1055 to 1054 BC, son of Aššur-bēl-kala, deposed after two years by his uncle Šamšī-Adad IV, who came up from Babylonia.
Eriba-Marduk
Eriba-Marduk (Erība-Marduk) was king of Babylon around 769–761 BC, the 13th ruler of Dynasty E, whom later chronicle tradition credited with restoring order in Babylonia before the reign of Nabonassar.
Eridu Genesis
The Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Flood Story, is an Old Babylonian Sumerian text recounting creation, the first five cities, and a flood survived by Ziusudra.
Erishti-Aya
Erishti-Aya, also known as Erišti-Aya, was an Old Babylonian naditu of the god Shamash at Sippar and a daughter of the king of Mari, known from eight emotive letters to her father.
Erishum I
Erishum I (Erišum I) was the 33rd king of Assyria, reigning around 1975–1935 BC, the earliest Assyrian king fixed by dated eponym lists, who greatly expanded trade colonies in Anatolia.
Erishum II
Erishum II, also known as Erišum II, was a king of Assyria in the early second millennium BCE, the last ruler of his dynasty before Šamši-Adad I took the throne.
Erra-imitti
Erra-imitti was a king of Isin in Mesopotamia, reigning c. 1868–1861 BC, best known for the story that a gardener replaced him on his throne.
Erridupizir
Erridupizir, also written Erridu-pizir, was a Gutian ruler after the Akkadian dynasty, known from statue inscriptions at Nippur recording his execution of the king of Madga and campaigns against the Lullubi.
Esarhaddon
Esarhaddon, also known as Aššur-aḫa-iddina, was king of Assyria from 681 to 669 BC, son of Sennacherib and father of Ashurbanipal, who rebuilt Babylon and conquered Egypt in 671 BC.
Esarhaddon's Arabian campaigns
Esarhaddon's Arabian campaigns were Assyrian military operations around 677-676 BC against the desert land of Bazu, whose eight rulers Esarhaddon defeated, and the Arabs under King Hazael.
Esarhaddon's campaign against Baal of Tyre
Esarhaddon's campaign against Baal of Tyre was the 671 BC blockade that starved the island city until King Baal submitted, paid tribute, and lost his mainland towns.
Esarhaddon's first Egyptian campaign
Esarhaddon's first Egyptian campaign was a failed Assyrian invasion of Egypt in 673 BC, defeated by the Kushite pharaoh Taharqo; Esarhaddon returned and captured Memphis in 671 BC.
Esarhaddon's treaty with Ba'al of Tyre
A treaty between Esarhaddon of Assyria and Ba'al of Tyre, granting Tyre trading ports in exchange for Assyrian oversight of its politics, dated around 677 BC.
Esharra-hammat
Ešarra-ḫammat was a queen of Assyria and wife of King Esarhaddon, who died in 672 BC; the king built her a mausoleum and never remarried.
Eshpum
Eshpum (Akkadian Ešpum) was an official of the Akkadian Empire, attested at Susa as ruler of Elam and servant of King Manishtushu in the later 23rd century BC.
Estate of Takil-ana-ilīšu kudurru
A Kassite Babylonian kudurru, or entitlement stone, engraved under King Meli-Šipak recording lawsuits that confirmed the estate Bīt-Takil-ana-ilīšu in Nippur to Ur-Bēlit-muballita(t)-mīti and his descendants.
Etana
Etana is a legendary shepherd-king of Kish named in the Sumerian King List, placed around 2800 BCE, and the hero of an Akkadian epic about riding an eagle.
Etemenanki
Etemenanki (E-temen-an-ki), the great seven-stage ziggurat of Babylon dedicated to Marduk, about 91 m square and tall, beside the Esagila; rebuilt by Nebuchadnezzar II, cleared by Alexander in 323 BCE, and the leading candidate for the Tower of Babel.
Eulmash-shakin-shumi
Eulmash-shakin-shumi (Eulmaš-šākin-šumi) was king of Babylon from 1004 to 988 BC and founder of the Bazi dynasty, the tenth dynasty in the Babylonian king lists.
Euphrates Handmade Syrian Horses and Riders
Euphrates Handmade Syrian Horses and Riders are handmade clay horse and rider figurines of the Iron Age Middle Euphrates valley, peaking in the seventh century BC.
Euphrates Syrian Pillar Figurines
Euphrates Syrian Pillar Figurines are handmade, pillar-shaped clay human figurines of the Middle Euphrates region, peaking in the 7th century BC, with Karkemish as their main production center.
Fall of Assyria
The Fall of Assyria, or Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire, was the war of 626–609 BC in which Babylon and the Medes destroyed the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Fall of Harran (610 BC)
The fall of Harran in 610 BC was the capture of Harran, the last capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, by Babylonian and Median forces under Nabopolassar.
Fall of Nineveh (612 BC)
The Fall of Nineveh in 612 BC was the capture and sack of the Neo-Assyrian capital by a Babylonian and Median coalition after a three-month siege, ending the empire.
Fall of Tarbisu
The Fall of Tarbisu was the capture in 614 BC of the Assyrian city of Tarbisu, near Nineveh, by the Medes under Cyaxares during the final war against Assyria.
First Babylonian dynasty
The First Babylonian dynasty, also called the Amorite dynasty, was a line of eleven Amorite-origin kings who ruled Babylon for about 300 years, from 1894 to 1595 BC.