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Campaigns of Tiglath-pileser III against Urartu
The campaigns of Tiglath-pileser III against Urartu were Assyrian offensives of the 740s and 730s BC in which Tiglath-pileser III defeated Sarduri II and broke Urartu's power in Syria.
Campaigns of Tiglath-pileser III to Syria and Palestine
The campaigns of Tiglath-pileser III to Syria and Palestine (734–732 BC) were three Assyrian expeditions that ended with Damascus annexed and Israel reduced under King Hoshea.
Capture of Babylon (710 BC)
The capture of Babylon in 710 BC was Sargon II of Assyria's removal of Marduk-apla-iddina II, the Chaldaean chief known as Merodach-Baladan, from the Babylonian throne, followed by Sargon's enthronement.
Capture of Babylon by Tiglath-Pileser I
The capture of Babylon by Tiglath-Pileser I was an Assyrian attack on Babylonia in the early 11th century BC, in which Tiglath-Pileser I twice invaded and reached Babylon.
Capture of Babylon by Tiglath-Pileser III
The capture of Babylon by Tiglath-Pileser III in 729 BC saw the Assyrian king defeat Nabu-mukin-zeri, take the hands of Bel, and reign as Pulu.
Capture of Carchemish
The Capture of Carchemish was the conquest in 717 BC of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Carchemish by the Assyrian king Sargon II, who deported its last king, Pisiri.
Capture of Dur-Yakin
The capture of Dur-Yakin, or Fall of Dûr-Yakîn, was Sargon II's siege and destruction of the Chaldean prince Marduk-apla-iddina II's stronghold in southern Babylonia, 709–707 BC.
Capture of Larsa by Hammurabi
The capture of Larsa, also called the fall of Larsa, was Hammurabi of Babylon's 1763 BC defeat of King Rim-Sin I, after which he annexed the Larsa kingdom and united southern Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule.
Capture of Lugalzagesi by Sargon
The capture of Lugalzagesi by Sargon, dated c. 2334 BC, was Sargon of Akkad's defeat of the king of Uruk, whom he paraded in a neck stock to the gate of Enlil.
Catalogue of Texts and Authors
The Catalogue of Texts and Authors is a Mesopotamian scholarly catalog that links Akkadian literary works to named authors with the phrase "from the mouth of" (ša pî).
Chagar Bazar tablets
The Chagar Bazar tablets, also known as the Ashnakkum tablets, are an Old Babylonian archive of cuneiform records from Ašnakkum in the Habur triangle, Syria, found by Max Mallowan in 1935.
Chaldean dynasty
The Chaldean dynasty, also called the Neo-Babylonian dynasty, was the last dynasty of independent Babylonia, founded by Nabopolassar in 626 BC and ended by Cyrus the Great in 539 BC.
Chronicle of Early Kings
The Chronicle of Early Kings is a Babylonian chronicle, known from two British Museum tablets, narrating kings from Sargon of Akkad to Agum III around 1500 BC.
Chronicle P
Chronicle P, also known as ABC 22 or the Chronicle of the Kassite Kings, is a Babylonian chronicle narrating Assyrian, Babylonian, and Elamite conflicts of the 14th to 12th centuries BCE.
Code of Lipit-Ishtar
The Code of Lipit-Ishtar, also called the Laws of Lipit-Ishtar, is a Sumerian-language legal collection attributed to Lipit-Ishtar, fifth king of the First Dynasty of Isin.
Cones of Enmetena
The Cones of Enmetena are Sumerian clay cone inscriptions of Enmetena, ruler of Lagash, recording the Lagash-Umma border settlement and the building of Inanna's Emush temple.
Conquest of Eshnunna by Hammurabi
The conquest of Eshnunna by Hammurabi was the defeat of the Diyala-region kingdom by Babylon's Hammurabi in about 1762 BC, ending with the city destroyed by a flood.
Conquest of Mari by Shamshi-Adad I
Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria conquered the Amorite kingdom of Mari on the middle Euphrates around 1794 BC, after its Lim dynasty collapsed, and installed his son Yasmah-Adad as a dependent ruler.
Conquests of Ipiq-Adad II
The conquests of Ipiq-Adad II were the campaigns by which Eshnunna expanded into a major power of the land of Akkad in the early Old Babylonian period.
Copper Bull
The Copper Bull is a life-sized standing bull of hammered copper over a wooden core from the Early Dynastic temple of Ninhursag at Tell al-'Ubaid, southern Iraq.
Correspondence of the Kings of Ur
The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur is a collection of literary letters between the Ur III kings and their officials, the largest surviving corpus of Sumerian prose.
Counsels of Wisdom
The Counsels of Wisdom (Akkadian Ummānu māršu imallik) is a Babylonian wisdom composition of about 150 verses, probably composed around 1200–1100 BCE and popular as a school text.
Crimes and Sacrileges of Nabu-šuma-iškun
The Crimes and Sacrileges of Nabu-šuma-iškun is a Babylonian polemical text, preserved on a damaged tablet from Uruk, denouncing the Chaldean king Nabu-šuma-iškun, who died in 748 BC.
Curse of Agade
The Curse of Agade, also called The Cursing of Agade, is a Sumerian poem about King Naram-Suen of Akkad and the gods' destruction of his capital, Agade.
Cuthean Legend of Naram-Sin
The Cuthean Legend of Naram-Sin is an Akkadian literary text presenting itself as a stele by Naram-Sin of Akkad, describing his war against the Umma-mānda hordes.
Cyrus's entry into Babylon
Cyrus's entry into Babylon was the entry of the Persian king Cyrus II into Babylon on 29 October 539 BC, after his troops took the city without battle.
Dadasig
Dadasig is a legendary king of Kish, second ruler of the second Kish dynasty in the Sumerian King List, credited with a symbolic 81-year reign.
Dadusha
Dadusha (Dāduša) was a king of Eshnunna in the early Old Babylonian period, son of Ipiq-Adad, known for his victory stele and the Laws of Eshnunna.
Damiq-ilishu
Damiq-ilishu, also written Damiq-ilišu, was the last king of the First Dynasty of Isin, a Mesopotamian city-state, reigning about 1814–1792 BC until Rim-Sin of Larsa conquered Isin and ended the dynasty.
Damming of the Tigris by Abi-eshuh
The damming of the Tigris by Abi-ešuh was a hydraulic military operation in which the Babylonian king tried to defeat Ilī-ma-ilu of the Sealand by drying up the southern marshes.