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Iphur-Kish
Iphur-Kish (Ipḫur-Kiš) was a leader of the Mesopotamian city of Kish whom its assembly raised to kingship during the Great Revolt against Naram-Sin of Akkad, circa 2254–2218 BCE.
Ipiq-Adad I
Ipiq-Adad I of Eshnunna was an early Old Babylonian ruler of the Mesopotamian city of Eshnunna, modern Tell Asmar, attested as governor (ensi) on a seal from about 2000–1900 BC.
Ipiq-Adad II
Ipiq-Adad II (Akkadian Ipîq-Adad) was a king of Eshnunna, a city-state in the Diyala region of Mesopotamia, whose 45-year reign brought great expansion, with campaigns reaching as far as Aleppo, and ended around 1811–1810 BC.
Iptar-Sin
Iptar-Sin was an early Assyrian king of the Adaside line, recorded as the fifty-first ruler in the Assyrian King List, with a reign of twelve years.
Iqqur Ipuš
Iqqur Ipuš (Iqqur Ipus) is an Akkadian divination series whose title means 'if he destroys, if he builds', classifying months and days as favorable or unfavorable for activities.
Ir-Nanna
Ir-Nanna was a high official of the Third Dynasty of Ur who served as grand vizier (sukkal-mah) and governor of Lagash in the late 21st century BC.
Iran Stele
The Iran Stele, or Iran Stela of Tiglath-pileser III, is a fragmentary Neo-Assyrian royal stele from western Iran, composed in 737 BC during the Median campaign.
Irarum
Irarum (Sumerian: i-ra-ru-um) is a Gutian king named in the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a two-year reign between La-erabum and Ibranum; no contemporary inscription mentions him.
Irdanene
Irdanene, also rendered Urdunene, was a king of Uruk in southern Mesopotamia during the early Old Babylonian period, around 1816–1810 BC, son and successor of An-am and known from his year names.
Ishbi-Erra
Ishbi-Erra (Išbi-Erra) was a king of Isin in southern Mesopotamia who founded the Dynasty of Isin as the Third Dynasty of Ur collapsed, reigning roughly 2017–1985 BC.
Ishbi-Erra's secession of Isin
Ishbi-Erra's secession of Isin was the breakaway around 2017 BC of Ishbi-Erra, a commandant of the last Ur III king Ibbi-Suen, who founded an independent dynasty at Isin.
Ishchali tablets
The Ishchali tablets are cuneiform administrative and legal records excavated at Tell Ishchali, ancient Nerebtum in the Diyala region, during the Oriental Institute's 1934–1936 dig.
Ishgum-Addu
Ishgum-Addu (Išgum-Addu) was the sixth shakkanakku, or military governor, of Mari on the middle Euphrates, ruling 8 years between his brother Ishtup-Ilum and Apil-kin; he is known almost entirely from the dynastic lists.
Ishma-Dagan
Ishma-Dagan (Išma-Dagan) was the third shakkanakku, or military governor, of Mari in northern Mesopotamia, ruling for 45 years, dated 2199–2154 BC; he was succeeded by his sons Nur-Mer and Ishtup-Ilum.
Ishme-Dagan (king of Isin)
Ishme-Dagan was the fourth king of the First Dynasty of Isin, who styled himself king of Sumer and Akkad, was worshipped as a god, and reigned about twenty years.
Ishme-Dagan I
Išme-Dagan I, elder son of Shamshi-Adad I, was king of Ekallatum and then Assyria from about 1775 BC, warring against Eshnunna, the Turukkeans, and Hammurabi of Babylon.
Ishme-Dagan II
Išme-Dagan II was a king of Assyria around 1600 BC, son of Šamši-Adad II, known only from the Assyrian King List, which records a reign of 16 years.
Ishqi-Mari
Ishqi-Mari (Išqi-Mari, formerly read Lamgi-Mari) was a king of Mari's second kingdom who reigned c. 2350–2330 BC and was the last king before the city's destruction, attributed to Sargon of Akkad.
Ishtar Gate
Ishtar Gate: main northern gate of Babylon, built of glazed brick by Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 BC), decorated with bulls, dragons, and lions; excavated 1899–1917 and reconstructed in Berlin's Pergamonmuseum in 1930.
Ishtar-shumu-eresh
Ishtar-shumu-eresh (Ištar-šumu-ēreš) was the chief scribe and highest royal scholar of Assyria, serving kings Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal in the 7th century BC; his tablets illuminate the library of Ashurbanipal.
Ishtup-Ilum
Ishtup-Ilum (Ištup-Ilum) was a shakkanakku, a military governor of Mari on the middle Euphrates, ruling c. 2147–2136 BCE; he is known from a diorite statue found at Mari in 1936.
Ishtup-Ishar
Ishtup-Ishar, also known as Ishtup-Shar, was a king of the second dynasty of Mari in Syria, attested only in the Ebla archives' Enna-Dagan Letter between Saumu and Iblul-Il.
Isi-Sumuabi
Isi-Sumuabi, also Iši-Sumu-abi, was an early king of the land of Ḫana on the Middle Euphrates, a contemporary of the Babylonian king Samsu-iluna in the 18th century BC.
Isin-Larsa period
The Isin-Larsa period is the era of southern Mesopotamian history, ca. 2004–1763 BC, when the rival dynasties of Isin and Larsa disputed control of Sumer until Hammurabi of Babylon captured Larsa.
Iškar Zaqīqu
Iškar Zaqīqu, also known as Iskar Zaqiqu, is an Akkadian compendium of dream interpretation assembled in the Neo-Assyrian period and preserved in King Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh.
Istanbul 2461
Istanbul 2461 is a small clay tablet from Nippur, Iraq, inscribed with a Sumerian love song to King Shu-Suen of Ur, often called the world's oldest known love poem.
Iter-pisha
Iter-piša, also written Iter-pisa, was a king of the First Dynasty of Isin in southern Mesopotamia, ruling about 1835–1832 BC as the dynasty's 12th ruler, between Zambiya and Urdukuga.
Itti-Marduk-balatu (king)
Itti-Marduk-balāṭu was the second king of the Second Dynasty of Isin, a line that ruled Babylon after the Kassite dynasty fell, reigning about 1139–1132 BC.
Itur-Asdu
Itûr-Asdû (Itûr-Ašdû) was a governor of Mari serving King Zimri-Lim in the first half of the 18th century BC, known from the Mari palace archives.
Jehoiachin Rations Tablets
Neo-Babylonian tablets from Babylon's South Palace recording monthly oil rations to the exiled Judean king Jehoiachin, his five sons, and other Judeans around 592 BC.