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Ashur-resh-ishi II
Ashur-resh-ishi II, also known as Aššur-rēš-iši II, was king of Assyria from about 971 to 967 BC, son of Ashur-rabi II and father of Tiglath-pileser II.
Ashur-rim-nisheshu
Ashur-rim-nisheshu (Aššur-rēm-nīšēšu) was king of Assyria for eight years around 1408–1401 BC, the 70th ruler in the Assyrian King List, son of Aššur-bêl-nišešu and father of Aššur-nadin-ahhe II.
Ashur-shaduni
Ashur-shaduni, or Aššur-šadūni, was an Assyrian king in the mid-15th century BC, entry 64 of the Assyrian King List, whose one-month reign ended when Ashur-rabi I ousted him and seized the throne.
Ashur-uballit I
Ashur-uballit I (Aššur-uballiṭ I) was king of Assyria c. 1365–1330 BC, son and successor of Eriba-Adad I, credited with creating the first Assyrian empire and initiating the Middle Assyrian period.
Ashur-uballit II
Ashur-uballit II, also written Assur-uballit II, was the last ruler of Assyria, reigning from 612 to 609 BC until his defeat at Ḫarran ended the Assyrian monarchy.
Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal (Aššur-bāni-apal), last great king of Assyria (r. 669/668–c. 631/627 BC), ruled from Nineveh the largest empire of its day and built the famed library of over 20,000 cuneiform tablets.
Ashurbanipal's campaigns against Elam
Ashurbanipal's campaigns against Elam, also called the Elamite wars of Ashurbanipal, were the wars between the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Elam, ending with the sack of Susa.
Ashurbanipal's invasion of Egypt
Ashurbanipal's invasion of Egypt was an Assyrian campaign in 667 BC in which king Ashurbanipal defeated the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa near Memphis and retook the city.
Ashurnasirpal II
Ashurnasirpal II, also known as Aššur-nāṣir-apli II, was king of Assyria from 883 to 859 BC who rebuilt the empire's power and founded the new capital Kalhu, modern Nimrud.
Asiatic campaign of Pepi I
The Asiatic campaigns of Pepi I were Egyptian punitive expeditions against the Asiatic Sand-dwellers, commanded by the official Weni under Pepi I of the 6th Dynasty.
Asiatic campaigns of Thutmose III
The Asiatic campaigns of Thutmose III were at least seventeen Egyptian expeditions into Syria and Palestine over twenty years, beginning with the victory at Megiddo and reaching the Euphrates.
Asinum
Asinum was a king of Assyria in the early second millennium BC, and was named in Puzur-Sin's inscriptions as a royal claimant contesting the throne.
Ašipu
The ašipu, also spelled Ashipu or Asipu, was a learned exorcist-healer of ancient Mesopotamia, one of five scholarly professions serving temples and the royal court from the early second millennium BC.
Ašmu-nikal
Ašmu-nikal, also written Ašmunikkal, was a queen of the Hittite kingdom during the Middle Hittite period, the wife of King Arnuwanda I and daughter of Queen Nikalmati.
Aspar (Numidian)
Aspar was a Numidian envoy sent by King Jugurtha to Bocchus I of Mauretania, acting publicly as ambassador while secretly spying during the Jugurthine War.
Aspelta
Aspelta was a king of Kush around 593 BC who succeeded his brother Anlamani, recorded his divine election on the Election Stela, and was buried in a pyramid at Nuri.
Asqudum
Asqudum, also written Ašqudum, was a diviner at the court of Mari who served King Zimri-Lim in the eighteenth century BC, with diplomatic and commercial duties.
Assassination of Amenemhat I
The assassination of Amenemhat I was the murder of the founder of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty in a palace conspiracy by his own court and guard, in regnal year 30.
Assassination of Gedaliah
The assassination of Gedaliah, also called the murder of Gedaliah, was the killing of Gedaliah, Judah's Babylonian-appointed governor, by Ishmael son of Nethaniah at Mizpah after 586 BC.
Assassination of Sennacherib
The assassination of Sennacherib, also known as the murder of Sennacherib, was the stabbing of the Assyrian king by his sons, led by Urad-Mullissu, in Nineveh in 681 BC.
Assassination of Tukulti-Ninurta I
The assassination of Tukulti-Ninurta I was the killing of the Assyrian king and conqueror of Babylon by his son Ashur-nadin-apli and the Assyrian nobles, dated to about 1197–1208 BC.
Assur archive of Middle Assyrian texts
The Assur archive of Middle Assyrian texts is a body of cuneiform tablets from Assur, the Assyrian capital in Iraq, excavated chiefly by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft between 1903 and 1914.
Aššur-daʾʾinanni
Aššur-daʾʾinanni was a Neo-Assyrian eunuch official who served King Tiglath-pileser III as governor of Mazamua and gave his name to the year 733 BC, the year of the campaign against Damascus.
Aššur-etil-ilāni
Aššur-etil-ilāni (Aššur-etel-ilāni), son of Ashurbanipal, was a late Neo-Assyrian king (reign dated 630–627 or 631–627 BC), installed as a minor by the chief eunuch Sîn-šuma-līšir, who held real power; succeeded by his brother Sîn-šarra-iškun.
Assur-nada
Assur-nada (Aššur-nāda) was an Old Assyrian merchant of the 19th century BC, eldest son of Aššur-idī and chief agent of the family firm at Kanesh in Anatolia.
Assurbanipal's campaign against Yauta' of Qedar
Assurbanipal's campaign against Yauta' (Uate') of Qedar was a series of Assyrian military operations in North Arabia, begun around 652 BC when Yauta' joined a Babylonian revolt.
Assurbanipal's campaigns against Elam
Assurbanipal's campaigns against Elam were Assyrian wars fought between 664 and 646 BC against successive Elamite kings, ending with the sack of Susa and the destruction of Elam as a regional power.
Assuwa
Assuwa was a coalition of twenty-two states in northwestern Anatolia, defeated by the Hittite king Tudhaliya I/II around 1430 BC; its allies included Wilusiya and Taruisa, likely Troy.
Assyria
Assyria: ancient Mesopotamian kingdom centered on Ashur on the Tigris, known in Old, Middle, and Neo-Assyrian phases. It grew into the Near East's dominant empire (over one million square kilometers) before Babylonian-Mede forces destroyed Nineveh in 612 BCE; royal resistance ended in 609 BCE.
Assyrian captivity
Assyrian captivity: the deportation of Israelites after Samaria fell in 722 BCE to Shalmaneser V and Sargon II, who removed 27,280 people under Assyria's mass resettlement policy.