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Synchronistic King List
The Synchronistic King List, also called the Assyrio-Babylonian Synchronistic King List, is a Neo-Assyrian chronographic text from Aššur that sets Assyrian and Babylonian kings side by side as contemporaries, anchoring Mesopotamian chronology.
Tākultu
Tākultu, also known as Takultu, is a Mesopotamian ritual banquet performed for the well-being of Assur, Assyria, and the king, first attested in the 13th century BC.
Tapputi
Tapputi, full name Tappūtī-Bēlet-ekallim, was a female perfume-maker in Middle Assyria around 1230 BCE, often cited as the earliest named chemist or perfumer on record.
Taram-Uram
Taram-Uram was a royal woman of the Third Dynasty of Ur, a wife of King Shulgi and daughter of Apil-kin, king of Mari, known from a single inscription found at Nippur.
Tashmetu-sharrat
Tašmētu-šarrat, also written Tašmetum-šarrat, was an Assyrian queen, the wife of King Sennacherib (r. 704–681 BC), whose name means "Tašmetu is queen"; a unique palace inscription at Nineveh calls her his beloved wife.
Tata (king of Awan)
Tata was an early king of Awan in ancient western Iran, known only as the second of twelve kings named on a cuneiform king list found at Susa.
Taylor Prism
The Taylor Prism, also known as the Sennacherib Prism, is a hexagonal fired-clay prism in the British Museum inscribed with the annals of King Sennacherib, written in 691 BC.
Tell al-'Ubaid Copper Lintel
The Tell al-'Ubaid Copper Lintel is a hammered copper frieze of the eagle Imdugud grasping two stags, from a temple near Ur, held by the British Museum.
Tell al-Rimah archive
The Tell al-Rimah archive, also known as the Karana or Qattara archive, is an Old Babylonian tablet archive from the kingdom of Qattara in northern Iraq, found in the 1960s.
Tell al-Rimah stela
The Tell al-Rimah stela of Adad-nirari III is an Assyrian stone monument found in 1967 at Tell al-Rimah, Iraq, recording tribute from Jehoash the Samarian.
Tell Asmar Hoard
The Tell Asmar Hoard is a group of Early Dynastic votive statues of worshippers and gods, excavated at Tell Asmar, ancient Eshnunna in Iraq, in 1933–34.
Tell Brak Head
The Tell Brak Head is a 17 cm alabaster human head with a groove at the back, found at Tell Brak, Syria, by Max Mallowan in 1937–38.
Tell Leilan tablets
The Tell Leilan tablets, also called the Shubat-Enlil archive, are Old Babylonian cuneiform archives of over 600 tablets found since 1985 at Tell Leilan, Syria, ancient Šubat-Enlil, including royal letters, treaties, and a Sumerian King List.
Tell Muhammad archive
The Tell Muhammad archive, also known as the Tell Muhammad tablets, is a corpus of cuneiform tablets from Tell Muhammad near Baghdad, dating to the late Old Babylonian period.
Tell Tayinat succession treaty tablet
The Tell Tayinat succession treaty tablet, or Tayinat treaty, is a cuneiform tablet bearing Esarhaddon's 672 BC loyalty oath naming his son Aššurbanipal as crown prince, excavated at Tell Tayinat, Turkey, in 2009.
Third Dynasty of Ur
Third Dynasty of Ur (Ur III, Neo-Sumerian Empire), 2193–2004 BCE Mesopotamian state founded by Ur-Namma, first king to write laws; centralized bureaucracy under deified Shulgi; ended when Elamites sacked Ur and captured Ibbi-Sin.
Tiglath-Pileser I
Tiglath-Pileser I, also Tukulti-apil-Esharra I, was king of Assyria from 1114 to 1076 BC whose campaigns reached the Mediterranean and who composed the first known royal annals.
Tiglath-Pileser I's Aramaean campaigns
Tiglath-Pileser I's Aramaean campaigns were the military operations of the Middle Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I (r. 1114–1076 BC) against the Aḫlamû-Arameans of the Middle Euphrates.
Tiglath-pileser I's campaigns
Tiglath-pileser I's campaigns were the military expeditions of the Middle Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser I (r. 1114–1076 BC) against the Mushki, the Arameans, and Babylonia, reaching the Mediterranean.
Tiglath-Pileser II
Tiglath-Pileser II (Tukultī-apil-Ešarra II) was king of Assyria from 966 to 935 BC, the son of Ashur-resh-ishi II and father of Ashur-dan II, during Assyria's recovery from a century of collapse.
Tiglath-Pileser III
Tiglath-Pileser III, also known as Pul and Tukultī-apil-Ešarra III, was king of Assyria from 745 to 727 BC and briefly king of Babylon, annexing Aram-Damascus and most of Israel.
Tiglath-pileser III's Babylonian campaign
Tiglath-pileser III's Babylonian campaign was an Assyrian intervention in Babylonia from 731 to 729 BC that defeated Mukin-zeri and put Tiglath-pileser on the Babylonian throne.
Tiglath-pileser III's campaigns in Philistia
Tiglath-pileser III's campaigns in Philistia were the Assyrian king's operations of 734 to 732 BC against Gaza, Ashkelon, Arab tribes, and Transjordanian kingdoms, ending in Assyrian control.
Tiglath-pileser III's campaigns to Media
Tiglath-pileser III's campaigns to Media were Assyrian military operations against the Median chieftains of the Iranian plateau, beginning in 744 BC and reaching the Salt Desert in 737.
Tiglath-pileser III's Urartu campaign
Tiglath-pileser III's Urartu campaign was the Assyrian offensive of 743 BC, in which Tiglath-pileser III routed Sarduri II of Urartu and his Syrian allies in Kummuḫ (Commagene).
Tirigan
Tirigan was the last king of Gutium in the Sumerian King List, with a reign of 40 days before his defeat and capture by Utu-hengal of Uruk, which ended Gutian rule in Babylonia.
Tizqar
Tizqar, rendered Tizkar in some translations, is a legendary ruler of the First Dynasty of Kish, son of Samug and grandson of Barsal-nuna, known only from the Sumerian King List.
Treaty of Mesilim
The Treaty of Mesilim, also printed Mesalim, was a boundary settlement between the Sumerian city-states of Lagash and Umma, mediated around 2600 BC by Mesalim, king of Kish.
Treaty of Naram-Sin with Awan
The Treaty of Naram-Sin with Awan is a clay tablet from Susa recording an alliance between Naram-Sin of Akkad and a king of Awan, c. 2250 BC.
Tribute of Jehu
The Tribute of Jehu was the submission of King Jehu of Israel to Shalmaneser III of Assyria in 841 BC, depicted on the Black Obelisk.