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Semiramis
Semiramis, or Sammuramat, is a legendary queen of Assyria and builder of Babylon in Greek legend, loosely attached to the historical Assyrian queen Sammuramat of the 9th century BCE.
Sennacherib
Sennacherib (Sîn-aḫḫī-erība), Neo-Assyrian king 705–681 BCE, son of Sargon II. Rebuilt Nineveh as capital, campaigned against Judah and Hezekiah in 701 BCE, and razed Babylon in 689 BCE.
Sennacherib's campaign against Elam
Sennacherib's campaign against Elam was the Assyrian king Sennacherib's war of 691 BC against a coalition led by Elam under Humban-nimena, culminating in the battle of Halule on the Tigris.
Sennacherib's campaign against Elam (694 BC)
Sennacherib's campaign against Elam of 694 BC was a seaborne Assyrian attack on Elamite coastal towns that ended when Elam sacked Sippar and captured his son.
Sennacherib's campaign against the Arabs
Sennacherib's campaign against the Arabs was an Assyrian expedition of 691–689 BC against Queen Te'elkhunu and Khazāʾil, capturing Adummatu, modern Dūmat al-Jandal in Saudi Arabia.
Sennacherib's Median campaigns
Sennacherib's Median campaigns were the Zagros military activity of the Assyrian king Sennacherib (r. 705–681 BC), chiefly his 702 BC expedition against the kingdom of Ellipi.
Sha-Nabu-shu
Sha-Nabu-shu, also known as Ša-Nabû-šu, was a Neo-Assyrian chief eunuch who commanded troops for King Esarhaddon and is known from two oracle queries to the sun-god Šamaš.
Shaduppum tablets
The Shaduppum tablets, also called the Tell Harmal tablets, are an Old Babylonian archive of about 3,000 cuneiform tablets excavated at Tell Harmal, ancient Shaduppum, east of Baghdad.
Shagarakti-Shuriash
Shagarakti-Shuriash (Šagarakti-Šuriaš) was the twenty-seventh Kassite king of Babylon, reigning c. 1245–1233 BC on the middle chronology, a generation before the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I captured his successor, Kaštiliašu IV.
Shagshag
Shagshag, also known as Šagšag or Sasa, was the wife of Urukagina, last ruler of Lagash, who headed a household of about 1,000 people at Girsu.
Shakkanakku
Shakkanakku, also written shakkanaku, is an Akkadian title meaning military governor, borne from about 2300 BCE and held by the rulers of Mari for nearly three centuries.
Shalim-ahum
Shalim-ahum, also known as Šalim-aḫum, was an early ruler of the city-state of Assur around 2000 BC, known from a single stone-block inscription recording a temple he built for the god Assur.
Shalmaneser I
Shalmaneser I (Akkadian Šulmānu-ašarēd I) was king of Assyria in the Middle Assyrian period, reigning 30 years, 1263–1234 BC; his annals record the defeat of Šattuara of Hanigalbat and the burning of 180 cities.
Shalmaneser II
Shalmaneser II (Šulmānu-ašarēd II) was king of Assyria from 1030 to 1019 BC, a poorly documented Middle Assyrian ruler known almost entirely from the Assyrian King List.
Shalmaneser III
Shalmaneser III, also known as Šulmānu-ašarēdu III, was king of Assyria from 858 to 824 BC, whose Black Obelisk depicts the submission of Jehu, king of Israel.
Shalmaneser III's Babylonian campaign
Shalmaneser III's Babylonian campaign was an Assyrian intervention in 851 and 850 BC that aided King Marduk-zākir-šumi of Babylon against his rebellious brother Marduk-bēl-usāti, who was killed.
Shalmaneser III's campaign against Damascus
Shalmaneser III's campaign against Damascus was an Assyrian invasion of Aram-Damascus in 841 BC, in which Shalmaneser defeated Hazael but could not take the city.
Shalmaneser III's campaigns against Damascus
Shalmaneser III's campaigns against Damascus were Assyrian offensives fought between 853 and 838 BC, first against Hadadezer and then Hazael, ending with Damascus weakened but never conquered.
Shalmaneser III's campaigns against Que
Shalmaneser III's campaigns against Que, also known as his campaigns in Cilicia, were Assyrian military expeditions against Que, the Cilician plain around Adana, in 858 and 839-831 BC.
Shalmaneser IV
Shalmaneser IV (Šulmānu-ašarēdu IV) was king of Assyria from 783 to 773 BC, son of Adad-nirari III, whose power was checked by the commander-in-chief Shamshi-ilu.
Shalmaneser V
Shalmaneser V (Hebrew שַׁלְמַנְאֶ֫סֶר, Akkadian Šulmānu-ašarēdu) was king of Assyria and Babylon from 727 to 722 BC, the son of Tiglath-pileser III, remembered for the siege of Samaria.
Shamash-hazir
Shamash-hazir (Šamaš-ḫāzir), son of Kimannum, was the manager of Hammurabi's royal domain at Larsa in the 18th century BC, known from an archive of 313 tablets.
Shamash-ibni
Shamash-ibni (Šamaš-ibnī) was the Chaldean sheikh, or tribal leader, of Bit-Dakkuri in southern Babylonia, imprisoned and replaced by the Assyrians in 678 BC under Esarhaddon.
Shamash-mudammiq
Shamash-mudammiq, whose name means "Shamash shows favor," was the fourth Babylonian king of the Dynasty of E, overthrown by the Assyrian king Adad-nirari II around 900 BC.
Shamash-shum-ukin
Shamash-shum-ukin (Šamaš-šuma-ukīn) was king of Babylon from 667 or 668 to 648 BC, a son of Esarhaddon and probably the elder brother of Ashurbanipal, who rebelled against him and died when Babylon fell in 648.
Shamash-shum-ukin's revolt
Shamash-shum-ukin's revolt was a civil war from 652 to 648 BCE between Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, king of Babylonia, and his brother Assurbanipal of Assyria, ending with the fall of Babylon and the rebel king's death.
Shamshi-Adad II
Shamshi-Adad II (Šamši-Adad II) was a king of Assyria around 1600 BC, the 57th ruler in the Assyrian King List, with a reign of 6 years.
Shamshi-Adad III
Shamshi-Adad III (Šamši-Adad III) was a king of Assyria, entry 59 of the Assyrian King List, which credits him with a 16-year reign and a royal genealogy.
Shamshi-Adad IV
Shamshi-Adad IV (Šamši-Adad IV) was a king of Assyria who reigned from 1053 to 1050 BC, having seized the throne from his nephew Eriba-Adad II.
Shamshi-Adad V
Shamshi-Adad V (Šamši-Adad V) was king of Assyria from 823 to 811 BC, a son of Shalmaneser III who won a long civil war against his brother Ashur-danin-pal.