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Hammurabi
Hammurabi (Hammurapi), sixth king of the Amorite First Dynasty of Babylon, reigned 1792–1750 BCE (Middle Chronology) and is known for the 282-law stele in the Louvre, found at Susa in 1901–02 and long debated as a law code versus royal monument.
Hammurabi's defeat of Elam
Hammurabi's defeat of Elam was a war fought around 1764 BC in which Babylon, allied with Mari and other states, ended Elamite suzerainty over Mesopotamia, marking the first step in Hammurabi's rise to dominance.
Hammurapih of Hana
Hammurapih of Hana, also known as Hammurapi of Hana, was a king of the land of Hana on the middle Euphrates in the sixteenth century BC.
Hana texts
The Hana texts are the cuneiform tablets of the kingdom of Hana (Khana), a Syrian kingdom on the middle Euphrates, dating from about 1750 BC into the 16th century BC.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, fabled terraced garden and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, traditionally attributed to Nebuchadnezzar II; unattested at Babylon, possibly actually Sennacherib's garden at Nineveh per Stephanie Dalley.
Hanu (Assyrian king)
Hanu (Ḫa-nu) is the tenth of seventeen early "kings who lived in tents" on the Assyrian King List, between Didanu and Zuabu, conventionally dated to the 23rd century BC.
Hanun-Dagan
Hanun-Dagan was a shakkanakku, or military governor, of Mari on the middle Euphrates, a member of the shakkanakku dynasty that ruled the city in its own right.
Harharu
Harharu is an early ruler of Assur known only from the Assyrian King List, where he is the fifth of seventeen "kings who lived in tents".
Harran Stelae of Nabonidus
The Harran Stelae of Nabonidus, also called the Harran Inscriptions of Nabonidus, are three stelae bearing Akkadian royal inscriptions of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon (r. 556–539 BC).
Harsu
Harsu is the eighth of the seventeen early "kings who lived in tents" on the Assyrian King List, between Imsu and Didanu, known only from later copies.
History of Mesopotamia (Μεσοποταμία)
History of Mesopotamia (Μεσοποταμία), the Tigris-Euphrates land of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria: first cities at Uruk, first cuneiform writing, Sargon's first empire, ending with Cyrus's 539 BC capture of Babylon.
Hitlal-Erra
Hitlal-Erra was a shakkanakku, a governor-ruler of the city of Mari on the middle Euphrates, in office in the late 21st or early 20th century BC.
House of Succession
The House of Succession (Akkadian bīt redûti) was the residence and establishment of the Neo-Assyrian crown prince, flourishing under Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Ashurbanipal between 721 and 627 BC.
Ḫulbazizi
Ḫulbazizi (Hulbazizi) is a Sumerian and Akkadian exorcistic incantation series from ancient Mesopotamia, recited by healers against demons and ghosts believed to cause disease, and worn as inscribed amulets.
Hymn to Enlil
The Hymn to Enlil, also known as Enlil A or Hymn to the E-kur, is a Sumerian hymn praising the god Enlil and his temple, the E-kur at Nippur in Iraq.
Hymn to Gula (Bullussa-rabi)
Bullussa-rabi's Hymn to Gula is a 200-verse Akkadian hymn praising the healing goddess Gula, attributed to the Babylonian exorcist Bullussa-rabi and probably composed in the Middle Babylonian period.
Iarlagan
Iarlagan, also rendered Yarlagan, was a Gutian king of the late 3rd millennium BC, named king of Gutium in a contemporary inscription by Nammahni, governor of Umma.
Ibal-pi-El I
Ibal-pi-El I (Ibāl-pī-El I) was a ruler of the Mesopotamian city-state of Eshnunna, modern Tell Asmar, in the first half of the 19th century BC.
Ibal-pi-El II
Ibal-pi-El II, also written Ibalpiel II, was king of Eshnunna in the Diyala region around 1784 to 1770 BC, a contemporary of Hammurabi known from year-name tablets.
Ibate
Ibate of Gutium is a Gutian king known only from the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a three-year reign between Yarlagab and Yarla; no contemporary inscription names him.
Ibbi-Sin
Ibbi-Sin, also known as Ibbi-Suen, was the fifth and last king of the Third Dynasty of Ur in Mesopotamia, reigning 24 years before Elamite forces captured him and took him to Elam.
Ibbi-Sin's campaigns against the Amorites
Ibbi-Sin's campaigns against the Amorites were military expeditions of the last king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, attested in his second regnal year by a ration tablet.
Iblul-Il
Iblul-Il, also Iblul-El, was a king of Mari in the mid-third millennium BC who exacted tribute from Ebla and devastated its towns, recorded in the Ebla tablets.
Ibranum
Ibranum was a Gutian ruler of Babylonia known only from the Sumerian King List, which credits him with a one-year reign between Irarum and Ḫablum.
Iddi-ilum
Iddi-ilum, also written Iddin-El, was a shakkanakku, or governor, of Mari on the Euphrates around 2090 BC, known almost entirely from a votive statue now in the Louvre.
Iddin-Dagan
Iddin-Dagan (Iddin-Dagān) was the third king of the First Dynasty of Isin, a Mesopotamian kingdom, who reigned for 21 years from 1976 to 1956 BC and was succeeded by his son Ishme-Dagan.
Iddin-Ilum
Iddin-Ilum, also rendered Iddi-ilum, was a shakkanakku (governor) of Mari, in present-day Syria, around 2090 BC, known chiefly from a headless votive statue in the Louvre.
Iddin-Marduk
Iddin-Marduk, also known as Idin-Marduk, was a Babylonian merchant of the Nūr-Sîn family who directed his family firm for about 60 years, from 577 to about 517 BC.
Igeshaush
Igeshaush, also spelled Igešauš, was a Gutian king named in the Gutian section of the Sumerian King List, an early second millennium record of Babylonia's rulers.
Igigi (king of Akkad)
Igigi, written Irgigi in the principal Sumerian King List edition, was one of four rival claimants to the kingship of Akkad who ruled collectively for 3 years, about 2192–2190 BC.