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Statue of Ashurnasirpal II
The Statue of Ashurnasirpal II is a rare freestanding magnesite statue of the Neo-Assyrian king (r. 883–859 BC), found at Nimrud and now in the British Museum.
Statue of Ebih-Il
The Statue of Ebih-Il is a seated votive gypsum figure of Ebih-Il, a superintendent of Mari, made around 2400 BC and now in the Louvre.
Stela of Ashurnasirpal II
The Stela of Ashurnasirpal II is a four-ton gypsum monument of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BC), erected outside the Temple of Ninurta at his capital Kalhu, modern Nimrud, Iraq.
Stela of Shamshi-Adad V
The Stela of Shamshi-Adad V is a limestone Neo-Assyrian royal stela of king Shamshi-Adad V, found at Nimrud, Iraq, and kept in the British Museum.
Stele of Meli-Šipak
The Stele of Meli-Šipak is a fragmentary stone kudurru of the Kassite king Meli-Šipak (1186–1172 BC), carried to Susa and re-inscribed by Šutruk-Naḫḫunte I; it is held in the Louvre.
Stele of Ushumgal
The Stele of Ushumgal is a small gypsum alabaster monument from Early Dynastic Sumer, carved on four sides with one of the earliest known Sumerian land records.
Striding Lion
Striding Lion is a molded glazed-brick relief of a striding lion that lined Babylon's Processional Way, made under Nebuchadnezzar II in the 6th century BC.
Substitute king ritual
The substitute king ritual, called šar pūḫi, was a Neo-Assyrian rite in which a proxy was enthroned and killed to take an omen-predicted death in the king's place.
Suhlamu
Suhlamu, also Sahlamu, is the fourth of seventeen early Assyrian kings named in the Assyrian King List, known only from that document, with no contemporary inscriptions recording him.
Sultantepe tablets
The Sultantepe tablets, also known as the Sultantepe archive, are about 400 Neo-Assyrian clay tablets found at Sultantepe between Urfa and Harran, excavated in 1951 and 1952.
Sumer
Sumer (Akkadian šumeru; native eme-gi7) was the earliest recognized civilization, in southern Mesopotamia (Biblical Shinar), home of cuneiform writing, Uruk, Ur, city-states, sexagesimal math, and irrigation-based urban life from c. 5500 BCE.
Sumer–Elam war
The Sumer–Elam war was an Early Dynastic raid by Enmebaragesi of Kish against Elam around 2700 BC, plundering Elam's weapons in the first war in recorded history.
Sumerian disputations
Sumerian disputations, also called Sumerian debates, are eight Sumerian poems in which non-human entities such as seasons, animals, and tools argue over which is superior.
Sumerian King List
The Sumerian King List is an ancient Mesopotamian text recording, in succession, the cities and rulers that held kingship over southern Mesopotamia from primeval times to the Dynasty of Isin.
Sumerian religion
Sumerian religion, also known as Sumerian mythology, is the polytheistic belief system of the ancient Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia, in present-day southern Iraq, attested from the late fourth millennium BCE.
Sumerian temple economy
The Sumerian temple economy was the Early Dynastic system in which Sumerian temples administered land, livestock, workshops, and dependent workforces, with the city's deity as nominal owner.
Sumerian Temple Hymns
The Sumerian Temple Hymns are a collection of 42 hymns praising the temples of major deities in 36 cities of ancient Mesopotamia, attributed to Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon of Akkade.
Šumma ālu
Šumma ālu (Summa alu), short for ālu ina mēlê šakin, is a Mesopotamian text series of 120 tablets with over ten thousand omens observed within a city.
Šumma izbu
Šumma izbu (Summa izbu) is the Mesopotamian omen series on monstrous and malformed births, with 24 tablets of over 2,000 omens, best attested in Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh.
Šumma sinništu qaqqada rabât
Šumma sinništu qaqqada rabât ("If a woman has a big head") is a Mesopotamian physiognomic omen series, the fourth sub-series of the corpus Alamdimmû, reading a woman's body head to foot.
Sumu-abum
Sumu-abum (Sûmû-abum) was an Amorite tribal and military leader who conquered northern Babylonia and the Lower Diyala region around 1890–1860 BCE, later counted as the first king of Babylon's First Dynasty.
Sumu-la-El
Sumu-la-El, also written Sumu-la-ilu, was a king of Babylon who reigned about 1880 to 1845 BCE and is considered the founder of the First Dynasty of Babylon.
Sumu-Yaman
Sumu-Yaman, also written Sumu-Yamam, was an early-eighteenth-century-BC ruler of Mari, attested by two year formulas and an inscription calling him Yahdun-Lim's parricide son, killed by his own servants.
Sumuel
Sumuel, also written Sumu-El, was the seventh king of Larsa in southern Mesopotamia, reigning 29 years from 1894 to 1866 BC; his year names record campaigns against Uruk, Kish, and Kazallu.
Sun God Tablet
The Sun God Tablet, also called the Tablet of Shamash, is a limestone tablet from Sippar, dated about 860-850 BC, recording King Nabu-apla-iddina's re-endowment of Shamash's cult.
Šurpu
Šurpu, also known as Shurpu, is a first-millennium BC Babylonian and Assyrian ritual series, over a thousand lines long, for removing curses caused by transgression.
Suspension of the Akitu festival
The suspension of the Akitu festival was the failure of Babylonian king Nabonidus to celebrate the New Year festival of Marduk while residing at Tayma in Arabia.
Susuda
Susuda, called "the fuller", was a legendary king of Kish, heading the second dynasty in the Sumerian King List with a reign of 201 + X years.
Sutean and Aramean incursions under Adad-apla-iddina
The Sutean and Aramean incursions under Adad-apla-iddina were raids and rebellion that devastated Babylonia during his reign (1068–1047 BC), demolishing cities including Nippur and Sippar.
Synchronistic History
The Synchronistic History, also called the Synchronistic Chronicle, is a Neo-Assyrian narrative of Assyrian–Babylonian relations from the 15th century to Adad-nērārī III, composed around 800 BC and valued for its royal synchronisms.