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Sack of Babylon by Shutruk-Nahhunte
The sack of Babylon by Shutruk-Nahhunte was the Elamite conquest of Kassite Babylonia around 1158–1155 BC, ending the Kassite dynasty and carrying spoils, including Hammurabi's law code, to Susa.
Sack of Babylon by the Hittites
The sack of Babylon by the Hittites, or Hittite raid on Babylon, was a raid by Hittite king Mursili I that captured Babylon in 1595 BC, ending Hammurabi's dynasty.
Sack of Mari by Hammurabi
The sack of Mari by Hammurabi, also called the destruction of Mari, was Babylon's capture of the Amorite city of Mari in 1761 BC and its demolition soon after.
Sack of Susa (647 BC)
The sack of Susa was the destruction of the Elamite capital Susa by Ashurbanipal's Assyrian army in the mid-640s BC, dated to 647 or 646 BC.
Sack of Ur (c. 2004 BC)
The sack of Ur, also called the Elamite raid on Ur, was the capture and destruction of Ur by Elamite forces around 2004 BC, ending the Ur III empire.
Sag-gig-ga-meš
Sag-gig-ga-meš, also written Sag-gig-ga-mes, is a first-millennium BCE Akkadian therapeutic prescription series, written under the logogram SA.GIG and known mostly from 7th-century BC manuscripts made for the royal library of Ashurbanipal.
Samani (Assyrian king)
Samani, printed Samanu, is an early Assyrian king known only from the Assyrian King List, which names him as the son of Hale and father of Hayani.
Samium
Samium (Sāmium) was the third ruler of the Amorite dynasty of Larsa in southern Mesopotamia, reigning 35 years, c. 1976–1942 BC, and father of Zabaia and Gungunum.
Sammetar
Sammētar was a high official and advisor of Zimri-Lim, king of Mari in the early 18th century BC, known from the Mari royal archives, where he governed Ashnakkum.
Samsu-Ditana
Samsu-Ditana, also written Samsuditana or Samsu-ditāna, was the eleventh and last king of Babylon's Amorite First Dynasty, son of Ammi-Saduqa, reigning about 1625 to 1595 BC.
Samsu-iluna
Samsu-iluna, son and successor of Hammurabi, was the seventh king of the First Dynasty of Babylon from 1749 to 1712 BC, during whose reign most of his father's empire was lost.
Samsu-iluna correspondence
The Samsu-iluna correspondence is the small corpus of royal letters sent directly by Samsu-iluna, king of Babylon (r. c. 1749–1712 BC), documenting revolts and administration.
Šandabakku
Šandabakku, also spelled Sandabakku, was the title of the chief governor of Nippur, Babylonia's religious center, and the highest official under the king in Kassite Babylonia.
Sargon I
Sargon I (Šarru-kīn I) was a king of Assyria, the 35th ruler in the Assyrian King List, son of Ikunum and father of Puzur-Aššur II, reigning about 1917–1878 BC.
Sargon II
Sargon II (Sharru-kin), Neo-Assyrian king 721–705 BC, took the throne by coup, fought Merodach-baladan II in Babylonia, built the capital Dur-Sharrukin at Khorsabad, and died in battle in 705 BC.
Sargon II's campaigns against Media
Sargon II's campaigns against Media were Assyrian military operations against the city-lords of western Iran, mainly between 716 and 713 BC, creating the provinces Kar-Šarrukin and Kar-Nergal.
Sargon of Akkad
Sargon of Akkad (Sharru-ken, 'the king is legitimate'), reigned 2334–2279 BCE, founded the Akkadian Empire, often called the first multinational empire, uniting the Sumerian city-states after defeating Lugalzagesi of Umma.
Sargon of Akkad's campaign against Elam
Sargon of Akkad's campaign against Elam was a military expedition of about 2300 BC in which Sargon claimed victory over Elam and Baraḫši and captured the Elamite king Luḫ-iššan.
Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Sumer
Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Sumer was a series of campaigns, c. 2334–2316 BC, by which Sargon defeated Lugalzagesi of Uruk and united Sumer under Akkadian rule.
Sargon's conquest of Uruk
Sargon's conquest of Uruk, also called the Fall of Uruk to Sargon, was the battle in which Sargon of Akkad defeated Lugalzagesi of Uruk around 2316 BC.
Sargonic royal inscriptions
Sargonic royal inscriptions, also called Old Akkadian royal inscriptions, are the inscriptions of the Akkadian dynasty from Sargon through Shu-turul, c. 2334–2154 BC, the first extensive use of Akkadian for royal display.
Sargonid dynasty
The Sargonid dynasty was the last ruling house of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, founded by Sargon II in 721 BC and ending with the fall of Nineveh in 612 BC.
Sasî movement
The Sasî movement was a conspiracy of Assyrian officials and soldiers who sought to depose King Esarhaddon and install the pretender Sasî, ending in mass executions in 670 BC.
Satuni
Satuni was a ruler of the Lullubi, warlike tribes of the Sherizor plain in the Zagros Mountains, defeated and apparently subjugated by Naram-Sin of Akkad around 2254–2218 BCE.
Scheil dynastic tablet
The Scheil dynastic tablet is an Old Babylonian manuscript of the Sumerian King List, published by Jean-Vincent Scheil in 1911 and held in the British Museum.
Sealand dynasty
The Sealand dynasty, or Dynasty of the Sealand, ruled southernmost Babylonia from about 1720 to 1475 BCE, between rebellions against Babylon's first dynasty and the region's unification by Kassite kings.
Sealand dynasty texts
The Sealand dynasty texts, also known as Sealand I tablets, are cuneiform records of a dynasty that ruled southern Babylonia from about 1720 to 1475 BCE.
Sealand Dynasty wars with Babylon
The Sealand Dynasty wars with Babylon were hostile relations between the Sealand dynasty of southernmost Mesopotamia and Babylon, running from the late 18th to the early 15th centuries BCE.
Second Dynasty of Isin
The Second Dynasty of Isin, also called the Isin II Dynasty or Fourth Dynasty of Babylon, was a native Babylonian dynasty ruling from Babylon between about 1157 and 1026 BC.
Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D)
Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D) is a Sumerian royal hymn in which Shulgi, second king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, praises himself as an ideal ruler.