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Yarlaganda
Yarlaganda, also Jarlaganda, was a Gutian ruler named in the Sumerian King List, which credits him with a 7-year reign in the late 3rd millennium BC.
Yarlangab
Yarlangab, read Yarla in the main tradition, was a Gutian ruler of Mesopotamia known only from the Sumerian King List, with a reign of 3 years.
Yasim-El
Yasim-El, also written Yaṣim-El or Yašim-El, was an official serving Zimri-Lim, king of Mari, known from a letter reporting events at Andarig and Ṣidqum around 1763 BC.
Yasir Yuhan'im
Yasir Yuhan'im (Yasirum Yuhanim) was a king of Himyar in ancient South Arabia who reigned at the end of the third and beginning of the fourth century AD.
Yasmah-Adad
Yasmah-Adad (Yasmaḫ-Addu) was a king of Mari on the middle Euphrates in the early second millennium BC, installed by his father Shamshi-Adad I and driven out by Zimri-Lim.
Yatha'amar Watar
Yatha'amar Watar, also known as Itamru, was a mukarrib of the early Sabaean kingdom in Yemen, probably the Ita'amra who brought gifts to Sargon II of Assyria around 715 BC.
Yatonmilk (Phoenician prince)
Yatonmilk, also written Yatanmilk, was a Phoenician prince of Sidon, son and crown prince of King Bodashtart, known only from his father's inscriptions at the Eshmun sanctuary.
Yaush
Yaush (Ya'ush) was a Judahite army commander stationed at Lachish in the late 7th century BCE, known only as the addressee of the Lachish letters.
Yauta (son of Hazael)
Yauta, also known as Iauta or Uaite', was a king of the Qedarites, an Arab tribal confederation, and son of Hazael, who rebelled against Assyria around 652 BC.
Yazkur-el
Yazkur-el is an early Assyrian ruler known only from the Assyrian King List, where he appears as the twenty-fourth entry, son of Yakmeni and father of Ila-kabkabi.
YBC 7289
YBC 7289 is a round Old Babylonian clay tablet in the Yale Babylonian Collection, written around 1800-1600 BC, giving the square root of 2 to six decimal places.
Year 400 Stela
The Year 400 Stela is a granite stela erected under Ramesses II commemorating the 400th anniversary of an era of the god Seth, now in Cairo.
Yedaniah
Yedaniah, also spelled Jedaniah or Yedanyah, son of Gemariah, led the Judean garrison at Elephantine, Egypt, petitioning in 407 BC to rebuild its destroyed temple of YHW.
Yeharbaal (king of Byblos)
Yeharbaal, sometimes read Yehadbaal, was a fifth-century BC member of Byblos's royal family, son of King Urimilk II and father of King Yehawmilk, known only from the Yehawmilk stele.
Yehawmilk (king of Byblos)
Yehawmilk, also written Yehawmilik, was king of the Phoenician city of Byblos under Persian rule, remembered for a limestone stele dated to about 450 BC.
Yehawmilk inscription
The Yehawmilk inscription is a Phoenician royal stele of King Yehawmilk of Byblos, dedicated to the goddess Baalat Gubal around 450 BC and held in the Louvre.
Yehimilk (king of Byblos)
Yehimilk was a king of Byblos, a Phoenician city in present-day Lebanon, in the 10th century BC, known only from his own inscription recording his rebuilding of the city's temples.
Yehimilk inscription
The Yehimilk inscription is a seven-line Phoenician royal building inscription of Yehimilk, king of Byblos, recording his rebuilding of temples, dated to about 950–920 BC.
Yeho'ezer ben Hosh'ayahu seal
The Yeho'ezer ben Hosh'ayahu seal is a black stone stamp seal from Jerusalem's late First Temple period, bearing a paleo-Hebrew inscription and a winged genie.
Yehud coinage
Yehud coinage (Yehud coins) is the small silver coinage of the Persian province of Judah, struck from the mid-fourth century BCE, mostly bearing the Paleo-Hebrew legend YHD.
Yehud stamp impressions
Yehud stamp impressions, also called Yehud seals, are inscribed stamps on storage jars from the Persian province of Judah, used mainly to mark government wine and oil.
Yesbokheamani
Yesbokheamani (Yesebokheamani) was a king of Kush who reigned about AD 283–300, near the kingdom's end; his inscriptions span Lower Nubia to Meroë, though his tomb is unknown.
Yeturow
Yeturow was a royal wife of the Napatan king Atlanersa, buried in tomb Nu 53 at Nuri, Sudan, with one of the few surviving painted Kushite burial chambers.
Yidya
Yidya was the Canaanite ruler of Ashkelon in the 14th century BC, known from his cuneiform letters to the Egyptian pharaoh in the Amarna archive.
Yitha'amar Bayyin
Yitha'amar Bayyin, son of Sumuhu'ali Yanuf, was a mukarrib of Saba in ancient South Arabia, known from two inscriptions at Ma'rib recording dam work and a ritual hunt.
YM 1200
YM 1200 is a fragmentary Late Sabaic royal inscription from the Ḥimyarite kingdom in Yemen, commemorating a place of worship under King Maʿdīkarib Yu'nim, circa 480–485 CE.
Yoel
Yoel, also spelled Joel or Ioel, was a king of Aksum who ruled in the late 6th and early 7th centuries and is known almost entirely from his coins.
Yuf
Yuf was a priest and official of early 18th Dynasty Egypt, serving Queens Ahhotep and Ahmose under Ahmose I; his career is recorded on stela CG 34009 from Edfu.
Yuhaqim Yurzih
Yuhaqim Yurzih (Sabaic: Yhqm Yrzḥ), son of Dhamārʿalī Dhariḥ, was a king of Saba around the end of the first century AD, known only from Sabaean inscriptions.
Yuni (viceroy of Kush)
Yuni was a viceroy of Kush, the Egyptian official heading the administration of Nubia, early in the reign of Ramesses II; his successor Heqanakht took office by year 3.