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Tribute of Menahem
The Tribute of Menahem was the payment of 1,000 talents of silver by Menahem of Israel to the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III, generally dated to 738 BC.
Tudiya
Tudiya, also rendered Tudija, is the first of the seventeen early Assyrian kings the King List says "lived in tents", with no contemporary evidence for him.
Tukulti-Ninurta Epic
The Tukulti-Ninurta Epic is a Middle Assyrian Akkadian narrative poem from the late 13th century BC, giving a biased account of Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta I's victory over Babylonia.
Tukulti-Ninurta I
Tukultī-Ninurta I, son of Shalmaneser I, was king of Assyria c. 1233–1197 BC who captured Babylon, built a new capital at Kār-Tukultī-Ninurta, and was murdered by his son.
Tukulti-Ninurta II
Tukultī-Ninurta II was king of Assyria from 890 to 884 BC, the son of Adad-nērārī II and father of Aššurnaṣirpal II, who consolidated his father's reconquests.
Tummal Inscription
The Tummal Inscription, also called the Tummal Chronicle, is a short Sumerian literary text tracing the repeated collapse and restoration of the Tummal, a sanctuary of Ninlil at Nippur.
Tura-Dagan
Tura-Dagan (Tûr-Dagan) was a šakkanakku, or military governor, of Mari on the middle Euphrates in the late third millennium BC, known chiefly from a seal impression.
Turam-ili
Turam-ili was a merchant of the Ur III state in northern Babylonia who held the title "overseer of merchants" and is known from fifty-nine tablets now at Yale.
Turtanu
The turtanu (Akkadian tartānu), a Hurrian loanword meaning deputy, was the commander-in-chief of the Assyrian army; by the 7th century BC the office was split between left and right commands.
Turukkaeans
The Turukkaeans (Turukku, also spelled Turukkeans) were a Hurrian-speaking, clan-based nomadic people of the Zagros mountains, known chiefly from the Old Babylonian archives of Mari and Shemshara.
Uballissu-Marduk
Uballissu-Marduk was a Babylonian accountant and administrator who served the Kassite king Kurigalzu in the fourteenth century BC, known from seal inscriptions and later land grants.
Ubara-Tutu
Ubara-Tutu, also written Ubartutu, is the legendary last antediluvian king of Shuruppak in the Sumerian King List, said to have ruled 18,600 years and fathered the flood hero Ziusudra.
Ubartum
Ubartum was a female physician of the Ur III period in southern Mesopotamia, the best-known woman practicing medicine at the end of the third millennium BC.
Udul-kalama
Udul-kalama is a legendary ruler of Uruk known only from the Sumerian King List, which names him as Ur-Nungal's son and credits him with a 15-year reign.
Ugbaru
Ugbaru, also known as Gubaru, was governor of Gutium under Cyrus II who took Babylon without battle in 539 BC and governed it until his death.
Uhub
Uhub was an Early Dynastic ruler of the Mesopotamian city of Kish, known only from inscriptions, including a vase fragment in the British Museum; his title, king or governor, is unresolved.
Ukush
Ukush, read in the sources as U'u, was an ensi (ruler) of the Sumerian city-state of Umma during Early Dynastic IIIb, and the father of Lugalzagesi.
Ulam-Buriaš
Ulam-Buriaš, also written Ulamburiash, was a Kassite king of the Sealand, brother of Kaštiliašu III, who conquered the Sealand Dynasty in the mid-15th century BCE.
Umma archive
The Umma archive is a corpus of about 30,000 administrative cuneiform tablets from the Ur III province of Umma in southern Iraq, dating to 2112-2004 BC.
Umma–Lagash border dispute
The Umma–Lagash border dispute, also called the Gu-edina dispute, was a prolonged conflict between the Sumerian city-states of Umma and Lagash over the fertile Gu-edena border tract.
Undalulu
Undalulu of Akshak is a legendary early Sumerian king named in the Sumerian King List, second king of Akshak with a recorded reign of six years.
Underworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince
The Underworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince, also called the Vision of Kummâ, is a Neo-Assyrian text in which the prince Kummâ dreams of the Mesopotamian underworld.
Unzi of Akshak
Unzi of Akshak is the first king of Akshak in the Sumerian King List, credited with a 30-year reign and treated by scholars as a legendary figure.
Ur-Baba
Ur-Baba, also written Ur-Bau, was an ensi, or ruler-governor, of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash around 2164–2144 BC, best known as the father-in-law and predecessor of Gudea.
Ur-gar
Ur-gar, also known as Ur-gar of Lagash, was an ensi (governor) of Lagash in southern Mesopotamia during the Lagash II period, around 2200–2100 BC, after the Akkadian Empire's collapse.
Ur-gigir
Ur-gigir, also written Ur-gigira, was a king of Uruk in the late 23rd or early 22nd century BC, second king of the Fourth Dynasty of Uruk.
Ur-Lisi
Ur-Lisi (Ur-Liši) was governor (ensi) of the southern Mesopotamian province of Umma under the Ur III state, serving from Šulgi year 33 until his dismissal in Amar-Suen year 8.
Ur-Lumma
Ur-Lumma (also written Urlumma, Sumerian ur-lum-ma) was a king of the Sumerian city-state of Umma during the Early Dynastic IIIb period, son of King Enakalle.
Ur-Meme
Ur-Meme, also known as Ur-Meme of Nippur, is the 21st-century BC ancestor and name-giver of a Nippur family whose members governed the city in the Ur III period.
Ur-Nammu
Ur-Nammu (Ur-Namma), Sumerian king c. 2112-2094 BCE, founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the Ur III (Sumerian Renaissance) period; earliest extant law code and great builder at Ur, distinct from Shulgi and Hammurabi.