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Yuny (19th Dynasty official)
Yuny was a chief royal scribe of Egypt's 19th Dynasty under Seti I, known from limestone statues of him and his wife Renenutet in the Metropolitan Museum.
Yupa (Viceroy of Kush)
Yupa, also vocalized Iupa, was a scribe and superintendent at the court of Ramesses II, known from a black granite statue held by the Krannert Art Museum.
Yuti (sculptor)
Yuti was an ancient Egyptian chief sculptor of the Amarna period under Akhenaten, shown painting the statue of Princess Beketaten in the tomb of Huye at Tell el-Amarna.
Yuya
Yuya, also known as Iouiya or Yuaa, was an Egyptian courtier of the Eighteenth Dynasty who held the titles God's Father and Master of the Horse.
Za Haqala
Za Haqala, listed as Zahakale, is a king of Aksum in the Ethiopian regnal lists, proposed by Henry Salt as the Zoskales of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.
Za Zalis
Za Zalis, printed as Za Les in Henry Salt's 1814 edition, is an early 1st-century AD ruler of the Kingdom of Aksum known only from the Ethiopian king lists.
Zababa-shuma-iddina
Zababa-šuma-iddina was a king of Babylon, the penultimate ruler of the Kassite dynasty, reigning about one year in the mid-1150s BC before the dynasty fell.
Zabaia
Zabaia, also rendered Zabâia, was the fourth ruler of the Larsa dynasty in southern Mesopotamia, reigning nine years, c. 1941–1933 BC, and rebuilding the Ebabbar temple.
Zabibe (queen of Qedar)
Zabibe, also rendered Zabibê, was the first "Queen of the Arabs" in the Assyrian record, listed as paying tribute to Tiglath-Pileser III about 738 BC.
Zakarbaal (king of Byblos)
Zakarbaal, also written Zakar-Ba'al, was a king of the Phoenician city of Byblos in the 11th century BC, known from the Egyptian Tale of Wenamun.
Zakkur (king of Hamath)
Zakkur, also rendered Zakur, was an Aramean king of Hamath and Lu'ash in central Syria around 800 BCE, known from his basalt victory stele in the Louvre.
Zakkur Stele
The Zakkur Stele, also known as the Zakir Stele, is an Old Aramaic royal inscription of Zakkur, king of Hamath, found at Tell Afis, Syria, in 1903.
Zakutu Treaty
The Zakutu Treaty, or Treaty of Naqi'a, is a Neo-Assyrian loyalty oath by which dowager queen Zakutu secured the throne of Assyria for her grandson Ashurbanipal.
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.
Zamonth
Zamonth, also written Zamont and called Resseneb, was a vizier of ancient Egypt under king Amenemhat III at the end of the Twelfth Dynasty; his son Ankhu succeeded him as vizier.
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.
Zannanza
Zannanza, also known as Zidanza, was a Hittite prince, a son of King Šuppiluliuma I, who died around 1327 BC before a planned marriage to an Egyptian queen.
Zannanza affair
The Zannanza affair was a diplomatic episode around 1327 BC in which a widowed Egyptian queen asked the Hittite king for a son to marry; the prince died en route.
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.
Zarzas
Zarzas was a Libyan commander of rebel mercenaries against Carthage in the Mercenary War, trapped with a 50,000-strong army by Hamilcar Barca at the Saw in 238 BC.
Zatipy
Zatipy, meaning "daughter of Ipy", was an Egyptian woman of the early 12th Dynasty, attested in tomb 14 at Beni Hasan and dated to the reign of Amenemhat I.
Zechariah (king of Israel)
Zechariah, son of Jeroboam II, was the fourteenth king of Israel and last ruler of Jehu's dynasty, assassinated by Shallum after a six-month reign in 753 BC.
Zechariah (prophet)
Zechariah, son of Berechiah, was a Judean prophet active in Persian-period Yehud under Darius I, whose dated oracles of 520 to 518 BC pressed for rebuilding the Jerusalem Temple alongside the prophet Haggai.
Zedekiah's revolt against Babylon
Zedekiah's revolt against Babylon, also called the Revolt of Zedekiah against Babylon, was Judah's rebellion under King Zedekiah against Nebuchadnezzar II, ending with Jerusalem's destruction in 587 or 586 BC.
Zenon Archive
The Zenon Archive is the largest surviving papyrus archive from Ancient Egypt, the working papers of Zenon of Caunus, estate manager for the finance minister of Ptolemy II.
Ziba (biblical figure)
Ziba (Hebrew: צִיבָא) is a servant of the house of Saul in 2 Samuel, appointed by David to manage Saul's estate, which he later gained by accusing his master Mephibosheth of treason.
Zibiah
Zibiah (Hebrew צִבְיָה, probably "gazelle") was a 9th-century BC Judahite royal woman from Beersheba, known from the Hebrew Bible as the mother of King Joash of Judah.
Zidanta I
Zidanta I was a king of the Hittite Old Kingdom who took the throne at Hattusa by usurping his father-in-law Hantili I, reigning in the mid-16th century BC.