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Jemdet Nasr period
The Jemdet Nasr period, also spelled Jamdat Nasr, is an archaeological period of southern Mesopotamia, c. 3100–2900 BC, named after its type site near Kish.
Jemdet Nasr tablets
The Jemdet Nasr tablets are proto-cuneiform administrative records, chiefly grain accounts, found at Jemdet Nasr in central Iraq and dating to the late fourth millennium BC.
Jerusalem Chronicle
The Jerusalem Chronicle is a Neo-Babylonian cuneiform tablet, BM 21946, recording year by year the campaigns of Nebuchadnezzar II, including the only cuneiform account of Jerusalem's capture in 597 BC.
Jerusalem Prism
The Jerusalem Prism is a hexagonal baked-clay prism in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, inscribed with the annals of the Assyrian king Sennacherib, dated to 691 BCE.
Jushur
Jushur, also written Ngushur, is the legendary first king of the First Dynasty of Kish in the Sumerian King List, said to reign 1,200 years immediately after the flood.
Kabti-ilani-Marduk
Kabti-ilāni-Marduk was a Babylonian poet and scribe of the Dabibi family, active around the eighth century BC, whom the Poem of Erra names as its composer.
Kadashman-Enlil I
Kadašman-Enlil I was a Kassite king of Babylon who reigned in the later fourteenth century BC and is known chiefly for his Amarna letters correspondence with pharaoh Amenhotep III.
Kadashman-Enlil II
Kadašman-Enlil II was a Kassite king of Babylon who reigned 1258–50 BC, succeeded Kadašman-Turgu, and received a letter from Ḫattušili III urging joint war against Egypt.
Kadashman-Harbe II
Kadašman-Ḫarbe II was a Kassite king of Babylon, the dynasty's 30th ruler, reigning about a year in the early 1220s BCE while Assyria's Tukulti-Ninurta I dominated Babylonia.
Kadashman-Turgu
Kadashman-Turgu, also known as Kadašman-Turgu, was the 24th king of the Kassite, or Third, Dynasty of Babylon, reigning from about 1281 to 1264 BC and corresponding with the Hittite king Hattusili III.
Kadašman-Harbe I
Kadašman-Harbe I, also known as Kadashman-Harbe I, was a Kassite king of Babylonia who ruled around 1400 BC, after Kara-indash and before his son Kurigalzu I.
Kalbum
Kalbum is a legendary king of Kish who appears in the Second Dynasty of the Sumerian King List as the son of Mamagal, credited with 195 or 132 years.
Kalibum
Kalibum is a legendary king of the First Dynasty of Kish, known only from the Sumerian King List, a later compilation that assigns him a symbolic 960-year reign.
Kalumum
Kalumum is a legendary king of Kish in the Sumerian King List, ninth ruler of its First Dynasty, with an attributed reign of 840 years.
Kandalanu
Kandalanu was king of Babylonia under Assyrian suzerainty from 647 to 627 BC, appointed by Ashurbanipal after Shamash-shum-ukin's death; his 21-year reign anchors Neo-Babylonian chronology.
Kara-hardash
Kara-hardash (Kara-ḫardaš) was a Kassite king of Babylon, son of Burnaburiaš II and an Assyrian princess, killed by rebel Kassite troops in the 14th century BC.
Karaindash
Karaindaš was a Kassite king of Babylon in the late fifteenth century BC, known for a boundary treaty with Assyria and for introducing the title king of Karduniash.
Karum
A kārum, originally meaning quay or harbor, was the merchant district and trading colony that Assyrian traders from Assur kept in Anatolian cities from about 2000 to 1750 BCE.
Kashshaya
Kashshaya, also spelled Kaššaya, was a princess of the Neo-Babylonian Empire and a daughter of King Nebuchadnezzar II, known only from cuneiform economic tablets, chiefly from Uruk, and proposed as the wife of Neriglissar.
Kashshu-nadin-ahhe
Kashshu-nadin-ahhe (Kaššu-nādin-aḫḫē) was a king of Babylon of the Second Sealand dynasty, the fifth dynasty in the Babylonian king lists, reigning briefly around 1006–1004 BC during a recorded famine.
Kashtiliash III
Kashtiliash III, also written Kaštiliašu III, was an early Kassite ruler of Babylonia of the 16th or 15th century BC, known from king lists and a canal inscription.
Kashtiliash IV
Kashtiliash IV, also known as Kaštiliašu IV, was a Kassite king of Babylon who reigned around 1232–1225 BCE and was defeated, captured, and deported to Assyria by Tukulti-Ninurta I.
Kassite dynasty
The Kassite dynasty, also known as the Babylonian Third Dynasty or Dynasty of Karduniaš, ruled Babylonia for over four centuries, from about 1595 to 1155 BC.
Kassite language
Kassite, also called Cassite or Cossaean, is the poorly attested language of the Kassites, who ruled Babylon from about 1595 to 1155 BCE; no connected text survives.
Kassite takeover of Babylonia
The Kassite takeover of Babylonia, or fall of the First Babylonian Dynasty, was the Kassite seizure of Babylon after the Hittite sack of about 1595 BC.
Kassites
Kassites (Akkadian Kaššû), a people probably from the Zagros Mountains who ruled Babylonia from the 16th to 12th centuries BCE, ruling 36 kings over 576 years before Elamite raids ended their dynasty in 1150 BCE.
Kesh Temple Hymn
The Kesh Temple Hymn, also called Liturgy to Nintud, is a Sumerian hymn praising the temple of Kesh, its hero Ašgi, and its lady Nintur, preserved from about 2600 BC.
Khorsabad Annals
The Khorsabad Annals, also called the Annals of Sargon II, are annalistic royal inscriptions engraved on wall slabs of Sargon II's palace at Dur-Sharrukin, modern Khorsabad in Iraq.
Kibri-Dagan
Kibri-Dagan (Kibrī-Dagan) was governor of Terqa on the Middle Euphrates under King Zimri-Lim of Mari in the 18th century BC, known almost entirely through his 139 letters in the Mari palace archives.
King of Battle
King of Battle (Akkadian šar tamḫāri) is an Akkadian epic about Sargon of Akkad's campaign against Purushanda in Anatolia, undertaken to rescue his oppressed merchants.