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Assyrian conquest of Musri and the Kashiari mountains
The Assyrian conquest of Musri and the Kashiari mountains was a series of campaigns by King Adad-nirari II into Hanigalbat between 901 and 894 BC.
Assyrian deportation of Mitanni elites to Assur
Under Tukultī-Ninurta I (13th century BC), Assyria deported populations from Hanigalbat, the former Mitanni kingdom, to Assur, with inscriptions claiming 28,800 people, a disputed figure.
Assyrian dynasty of Babylon
The Assyrian dynasty of Babylon is the period when Assyrian kings and their appointees held the Babylonian throne, from Tiglath-pileser III in 729 BC until Nabopolassar's accession in 626 BC.
Assyrian eclipse of 763 BC
The Assyrian eclipse of 763 BC, also called the eclipse of Bur-Sagale, was a solar eclipse recorded in Assyria on 15 June 763 BC, in the reign of Ashur-dan III.
Assyrian King List
The Assyrian King List is a cuneiform text listing Assyria's rulers from legendary ancestors to Šalmaneser V, known as the backbone of Assyrian chronology and anchored by the 763 BC solar eclipse.
Assyrian lion weights
These official bronze lion weights, originating from Neo-Assyria's Kalhu (Nimrud), were used to define the heavy mina and are now housed in the British Museum.
Assyrian province of Hanigalbat
Hanigalbat was the Assyrian name for the former Mitanni heartland in Upper Mesopotamia, conquered in the 13th century BC and ruled by a grand vizier.
Assyrian provincial reform of Tiglath-Pileser III
The Assyrian provincial reform of Tiglath-Pileser III was the reorganization of the Neo-Assyrian Empire under King Tiglath-pileser III, who broke up large noble-held districts into smaller provinces governed by royal appointees.
Assyrian royal annals
Composed in Akkadian, the Assyrian royal annals are inscriptions from the 9th to 7th centuries BC. They document Neo-Assyrian kings' military campaigns and are key to regional chronology.
Assyrian sack of Washukanni
The Assyrian sack of Washukanni (Sack of Wassukanni) was the 13th-century BC Assyrian conquest of Washukanni, capital of Mitanni, ending the kingdom's independence under Shalmaneser I.
Assyrian Timber Transportation relief
The Assyrian Timber Transportation relief is a set of alabaster bas-reliefs carved for Sargon II's palace at Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad, Iraq) in the late 8th century BC, now in the Louvre.
Assyrian-Babylonian war of Adad-nirari I
The Assyrian-Babylonian war of Adad-nirari I was a 13th-century BC border war in which Adad-nirari I of Assyria totally defeated the Kassite king Nazi-Maruttaš of Babylonia.
Astronomical Diaries
The Astronomical Diaries, also known as the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries, are Akkadian cuneiform records kept at Babylon from 652 BCE, recording celestial phenomena, prices, and events.
Atab (king of Kish)
Atab is a legendary king of Kish in the First Dynasty of the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a 600-year reign between Zuqāqīp and his son Mašda.
Atalia (queen of Sargon II)
Atalia, also written Atalya or Atala, was a queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and wife of King Sargon II, known from inscribed grave goods found at Nimrud in northern Iraq.
Atamrum
Atamrum was an 18th-century BC king of Andarig in Upper Mesopotamia, who rose from deputy of Eshnunna and king of Allahad, and is known almost entirely from the royal correspondence of Mari.
Ayakalla
Ayakalla was governor of the Mesopotamian city of Umma under the Ur III dynasty, succeeding Ur-Lisi and serving from about 2040 to 2020 BC; he is known from administrative tablets.
Azarah
Azarah, also printed Azaraḫ, is the fifteenth of seventeen early Assyrian "kings who lived in tents" in the Assyrian King List; no inscription or excavation independently attests him.
Azekah inscription
The Azekah inscription is a fragmentary Akkadian cuneiform tablet from Nineveh, mostly attributed to Sennacherib's 701 BC campaign, describing the storming of the Judean fortress of Azekah and naming Hezekiah.
Baba-aha-iddina
Baba-aha-iddina (Bāb-aḫa-iddina) was a king of Babylon who reigned around 812 BC, succeeding Marduk-balassu-iqbi before being captured and deported to Assyria by Shamshi-Adad V; his reign probably lasted no more than one year.
Babati
Babati was a high official of the Ur III dynasty, brother of queen Abi-Simti and maternal uncle of king Šu-Suen, who served as governor of Awal and Maškan-šarrum around 2030 BC.
Bābu-aḫa-iddina
Bābu-aḫa-iddina, also written Babu-aha-iddina, was a high Middle Assyrian official at Aššur in the 14th and 13th centuries BC, an eponym under Adad-nīrārī I, known from an archive of over 100 texts and Assur Tomb 45.
Babum
Babum was a legendary early king of the First Dynasty of Kish, recorded only in the Sumerian King List with a 300-year reign between En-dara-ana and Pu'annum.
Babylonia
Babylonia: ancient south-Mesopotamian civilization named for Babylon, from early second millennium BCE to the Persian conquest of 539 BCE; Hammurabi's Code, cuneiform scholarship, Neo-Babylonian Empire, and the modern UNESCO site.
Babylonian Almanac
The Babylonian Almanac is a cuneiform hemerological text that classifies every day of an ideal 360-day year, the most fundamental text of Mesopotamian day-list hemerology.
Babylonian captivity
Babylonian captivity: the deportation of Judeans to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar II in 597 and 586 BCE and their exile until Cyrus's decree of 538 BCE; attested by the Weidner ration lists and Al-Yahudu tablets and formative for Jewish monotheism and scripture.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 16)
The Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 16), commonly called the Akitu Chronicle, is a Babylonian historiographical text recording the 652–648 BC war between Šamaš-šuma-ukin of Babylon and his brother Aššurbanipal of Assyria.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 3)
The Babylonian Chronicle, also known as the Fall of Nineveh Chronicle, is a Babylonian tablet recording Nabopolassar's campaigns of 616–609 BC, including the capture of Nineveh in 612 BC.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 4)
The Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 4), or Chronicle Concerning the Late Years of Nabopolassar, is a cuneiform tablet in the British Museum recording Nabopolassar's wars, 608-605 BC.
Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 8)
The Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 8), known as BCHP 1 or the Alexander Chronicle, is a fragmentary cuneiform tablet in the British Museum covering Darius III and Alexander the Great.