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Zambiya
Zambiya, also Zambija, was a king of the First Dynasty of Isin in southern Mesopotamia who reigned 1836–1834 BC, between Enlil-bani and Iter-pisha, and rebuilt Isin's great wall.
Zame Hymns
The Zame Hymns, also known as the Zami Hymns, are Early Dynastic Sumerian hymns from about 2600 BC, found at Tell Abū Ṣalābīḫ in southern Iraq.
Zamug
Zamug is a legendary king of the First Dynasty of Kish in Sumer, known only from the Sumerian King List and unattested by any contemporary inscriptions.
Zariqum
Zariqum, also written Zarriqum, was governor of Assur around 2045 BC under the Third Dynasty of Ur, known from a stone inscription dedicating a temple to Bēlat-ekallim.
Zarlagab
Zarlagab, also read Sarlagab or Šarlagab, is a Gutian king of ancient Mesopotamia, placed third in his dynasty on the Sumerian King List and credited with a six-year reign.
Ziggurat
Ziggurat (Akkadian ziqqurratu, temple-tower): solid stepped Mesopotamian temple tower of mud brick raising a shrine to the city god, built from the 3rd millennium until about 500 BCE; unlike Egyptian pyramids it was a temple, not a tomb.
Zimri-Addu
Zimri-Addu was an official of the kingdom of Mari, modern Tell Hariri, in the 18th century BC, known from a gift-disbursement list in the royal archives of King Zimri-Lim.
Zimri-Lim
Zimri-Lim was the last king of Mari, a major 18th-century BC center on the Euphrates, reigning about 1775 to 1761 BCE until Hammurabi of Babylon destroyed the city.
Zisurrû
Zisurrû (Sumerian ZÌ.SUR.RA) is an Akkadian term for a magic circle or line of flour drawn around a bed, house, or gate in exorcistic ritual.
Ziusudra
Ziusudra is the legendary last antediluvian king of Shuruppak in Sumerian tradition, the hero of the Sumerian flood story who preserved mankind and animals and was granted eternal life.
Zuabu
Zuabu is an early ruler of Assyria known only from the Assyrian King List, where he appears as the eleventh of seventeen tent-dwelling kings, between Hanu and Nuabu.
Zuqaqip
Zuqaqip, also rendered Zuqaqipu, is a legendary king of the First Dynasty of Kish named in the Sumerian King List, placed between Kalumum and Atab with a 900-year reign.