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Sumerian King List
The Sumerian King List is an ancient Mesopotamian text recording, in succession, the cities and rulers that held kingship over southern Mesopotamia from primeval times to the Dynasty of Isin.
Sumerian religion
Sumerian religion, also known as Sumerian mythology, is the polytheistic belief system of the ancient Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia, in present-day southern Iraq, attested from the late fourth millennium BCE.
Sumerian temple economy
The Sumerian temple economy was the Early Dynastic system in which Sumerian temples administered land, livestock, workshops, and dependent workforces, with the city's deity as nominal owner.
Sumerian Temple Hymns
The Sumerian Temple Hymns are a collection of 42 hymns praising the temples of major deities in 36 cities of ancient Mesopotamia, attributed to Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon of Akkade.
Šumma ālu
Šumma ālu (Summa alu), short for ālu ina mēlê šakin, is a Mesopotamian text series of 120 tablets with over ten thousand omens observed within a city.
Šumma izbu
Šumma izbu (Summa izbu) is the Mesopotamian omen series on monstrous and malformed births, with 24 tablets of over 2,000 omens, best attested in Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh.
Šumma sinništu qaqqada rabât
Šumma sinništu qaqqada rabât ("If a woman has a big head") is a Mesopotamian physiognomic omen series, the fourth sub-series of the corpus Alamdimmû, reading a woman's body head to foot.
Sumu-abum
Sumu-abum (Sûmû-abum) was an Amorite tribal and military leader who conquered northern Babylonia and the Lower Diyala region around 1890–1860 BCE, later counted as the first king of Babylon's First Dynasty.
Sumu-Epuh
Sumu-Epuh, also written Sumu-epeh, was the founding king of the Hambe dynasty of Yamhad, the Amorite kingdom centered on Aleppo, reigning from about 1810 to 1780 BC and succeeded by his son Yarim-Lim I.
Sumu-la-El
Sumu-la-El, also written Sumu-la-ilu, was a king of Babylon who reigned about 1880 to 1845 BCE and is considered the founder of the First Dynasty of Babylon.
Sumu-Yaman
Sumu-Yaman, also written Sumu-Yamam, was an early-eighteenth-century-BC ruler of Mari, attested by two year formulas and an inscription calling him Yahdun-Lim's parricide son, killed by his own servants.
Sumuel
Sumuel, also written Sumu-El, was the seventh king of Larsa in southern Mesopotamia, reigning 29 years from 1894 to 1866 BC; his year names record campaigns against Uruk, Kish, and Kazallu.
Sumuhu'ali Yanuf III
Sumuhu'ali Yanuf III was a mukarrib of Saba in ancient South Arabia, son and co-regent of the mukarrib Karib'il Watar, ruling in the 7th century BC.
Sumyafa Ashwa
Sumyafa Ashwa (Greek Esimiphaios) was a Christian Himyarite client king installed on the throne of Himyar by Kaleb of Aksum around 525, later deposed by his commander Abraha.
Sun God Tablet
The Sun God Tablet, also called the Tablet of Shamash, is a limestone tablet from Sippar, dated about 860-850 BC, recording King Nabu-apla-iddina's re-endowment of Shamash's cult.
Sun temple (Egyptian)
Dedicated to the sun god Ra, the Egyptian sun temple was a Fifth Dynasty royal sanctuary. Six were known from sources, but only two have been excavated.
Sunashshura
Sunashshura, also written Sunassura, was king of Kizzuwatna, a kingdom in south-eastern Anatolia, in the 15th century BC, known from a treaty with a Hittite king of the Tudhaliya line.
Suppiluliuma (Patina)
Suppiluliuma of Patina, also known as Suppiluliuma of Unqi, was a Syro-Hittite king in the Amuq valley of north Syria, flourishing in the 9th century BC.
Suppiluliuma I
Suppiluliuma I, also written Shuppiluliuma or Suppiluliumas, was king of the Hittite Empire around 1350 to 1322 BCE; he surpassed Mitanni and Egypt, conquered Syria, and died of plague in 1322 BCE.
Suppiluliuma II
Suppiluliuma II (Šuppuliuma II) was the final attested king of the Hittite Empire, succeeding Arnuwanda III as the late Bronze Age state faced collapse around 1180 BC.
Suppiluliuma's Syrian campaigns
Suppiluliuma's Syrian campaigns were the mid-14th-century BC wars by which Hittite king Suppiluliuma I broke Mitanni's power, defeated Tusratta, and extended Hittite rule over most of northern Syria.
Suppression of Amenhotep
The suppression of Amenhotep, also called the War of the High Priest, was the removal of the High Priest of Amun from office at Thebes for about eight months, around 1089–1088 BC.
Surata (ruler of Acco)
Surata, also transliterated Šurata, was ruler of the Canaanite city of Acco in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, known from the Amarna letters as a loyal Egyptian vassal.
Šurpu
Šurpu, also known as Shurpu, is a first-millennium BC Babylonian and Assyrian ritual series, over a thousand lines long, for removing curses caused by transgression.
Surri
Surri was a usurper who seized the throne of the Syro-Hittite kingdom of Patina around 831 BC and was strangled to death by Assyrian forces.
Surus
Surus, also given as Syrus, was a Carthaginian war elephant, the only one of Hannibal's elephants named in ancient sources, notable for one broken tusk.
Suspension of the Akitu festival
The suspension of the Akitu festival was the failure of Babylonian king Nabonidus to celebrate the New Year festival of Marduk while residing at Tayma in Arabia.
Susuda
Susuda, called "the fuller", was a legendary king of Kish, heading the second dynasty in the Sumerian King List with a reign of 201 + X years.
Sutean and Aramean incursions under Adad-apla-iddina
The Sutean and Aramean incursions under Adad-apla-iddina were raids and rebellion that devastated Babylonia during his reign (1068–1047 BC), demolishing cities including Nippur and Sippar.
Suteans
The Suteans (Akkadian Sutû) were Semitic nomadic tribes of the Syrian desert, first recorded near Mari as raiders and later serving as mercenaries across Mesopotamia.