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King of Kish
King of Kish (Sumerian lugal Kish) was the title of the rulers of Kish, a city-state in northern Babylonia, during the Early Dynastic period of Sumer.
King of Sumer and Akkad
King of Sumer and Akkad is a Mesopotamian royal title claiming lordship over Sumer and Akkad, first used regularly by the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur.
King of the Four Corners
King of the Four Corners, also known as King of the Four Quarters, is a Mesopotamian royal title introduced by Narām-Sîn of Akkad around 2254 BCE.
Kingdom of Ḫana
The Kingdom of Ḫana, also written Khana, was a Syrian kingdom of the second millennium BC centered on Terqa in the Middle Euphrates region, arising after the fall of Mari.
Kirum
Kirum, also spelled Kīrum, was a princess of Mari and daughter of its last king, Zimri-Lim, married to Haya-Sumu of Ilan-Sura and known from letters in the Mari archives.
Kish tablet
The Kish tablet is a small limestone tablet excavated at Kish in southern Iraq, inscribed with proto-cuneiform signs around 3200-3000 BC recording commodities and brewing.
Kition stele
The Kition stele is a basalt monument of the Assyrian king Sargon II, found at Kition near modern Larnaka, Cyprus, recording tribute from seven Cypriot kings around 709 BC.
Kubaba (queen of Kish)
Kubaba, also known as Kug-Bau, is the only woman named as a reigning ruler on the Sumerian King List, credited with a 100-year reign over Kish.
Kubatum
Kubatum, written ku-ba-tum (Kubātum), was a concubine of Shu-Sin, king of Ur around 2037–2028 BC, known from a Sumerian love song calling her "my queen Kubatum".
Kudur-Enlil
Kudur-Enlil, also written Kudur-Elil, was a Kassite king of Babylon, the dynasty's 26th ruler, reigning from 1252 to 1244 BC and building at the temple of Enlil in Nippur.
Kudur-Mabuk
Kudur-Mabuk, also written Kudur-mabug, was a 19th-century BCE ruler of the land of Emutbal in southern Mesopotamia and father of the Larsa kings Warad-Sin and Rim-Sin I, though never counted a king himself.
Kudurru (artefact)
A kudurru is an inscribed stone stela of Babylonia, produced mainly between the 14th and 7th centuries BC, that records and protects land grants, temple prebends, or tax exemptions.
Kudurru (governor of Uruk)
Kudurru was a southern Babylonian official who served as governor, or former governor, of Uruk under the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in the 7th century BC.
Kudurru of Kaštiliašu
The Kudurru of Kaštiliašu, also known as the Kudurru of Kashtiliashu, is a Babylonian stone entitlement monument named after a Kassite king of the late Kassite period.
Kudurru of Marduk-apla-iddina II
The Kudurru of Marduk-apla-iddina II is a Babylonian black-stone stele recording a royal land grant to Bel-ahhe-eriba in the king's seventh year, around 715 BC, held in Berlin.
Kudurru of Marduk-zakir-shumi I
The Kudurru of Marduk-zakir-shumi I is a limestone stele-shaped kudurru recording a donation by the Babylonian king to a scribe of Uruk, dated to about 849 BC.
Kudurru of Nazi-Maruttash
The Kudurru of Nazi-Maruttash is a black limestone stele in the Louvre recording a Kassite king's grant of over 4000 hectares of land to the god Marduk.
Kudurru of Nebuchadnezzar I
A kudurru of Nebuchadnezzar I is an inscribed stone monument recording grants of perpetual income by Nebuchadnezzar I, king of Babylon ca. 1125–1104 BC, after his defeat of Elam.
Kudurrus of Marduk-nadin-ahhe
The kudurrus of Marduk-nadin-ahhe are inscribed stone entitlement monuments issued during the reign of Marduk-nadin-ahhe, king of Babylon, 1099–1082 BC, including the Caillou Michaux in Paris.
Kullassina-bel
Kullassina-bel is the second named king of the First Dynasty of Kish in the Sumerian King List, a legendary ruler credited with a 960-year reign and unattested by any inscription.
Kunga
The kunga was a hybrid equid bred in third-millennium BC Mesopotamia from a female donkey and a male Syrian wild ass, the earliest known human-made animal hybrid.
Kurigalzu I
Kurigalzu I, called Kurigalzu the Elder, was a Kassite king of Babylon whose reign ended around 1375 BC. He rebuilt Babylonia extensively and founded Dur-Kurigalzu.
Kurigalzu II
Kurigalzu II, also known as Kurigalzu the Younger, was a Kassite king of Babylon in the 14th century BC, placed on the throne by the Assyrian king Aššur-uballiṭ I.
Kurkh Monolith
The Kurkh Monolith is a stone stele of Assyrian king Shalmaneser III found at Kurkh in Turkey, bearing the most detailed account of the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BCE.
Kurum
Kurum was a Gutian ruler of Sumer, known only from the Sumerian King List, which places him between Yarla and Apil-kin with a reign of one year.
Kushim (accountant)
Kushim is the name given to a Sumerian temple official of Uruk around 3100 BC, listed by Guinness as the earliest person whose name survives in writing.
La-ba'shum
La-ba'shum is an early ruler of Uruk identified in the Sumerian King List. He is placed after Gilgamesh and two other rulers in the early 3rd millennium BC.
La-erabum
La-erabum, earlier read Lasirab, was a Gutian ruler of the Sumerian King List, assigned a two-year reign between Apilkin and Irarum and known from an inscribed mace-head found at Sippar.
Labashi-Marduk
Labashi-Marduk (Labaši-Marduk) was king of Babylon in 556 BC, the young son and successor of Neriglissar who reigned only a few months before a coup made Nabonidus king.
Lamassi
Lamassi was a nadītum, a woman dedicated to the god Shamash, in Old Babylonian Sippar, attested in lease contracts and an illness-and-care tablet; two bearers of the name are recorded.