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Atamrum

Atamrum was an 18th-century BC king of Andarig in Upper Mesopotamia, who rose from deputy of Eshnunna and king of Allahad, and is known almost entirely from the royal correspondence of Mari.

Atarshumki I

Atarshumki I, also written Attar-šumki or Attarsumki, was a king of the Aramean kingdom of Bit Agusi in northern Syria, defeated by the Assyrian king Adad-nirari III.

Atasamale

Atasamale, also rendered Tshis-ma-nufe, Tesmalo, or Atasamalo, was a queen mother of the Napatan kingdom of Kush, known as the mother of King Harsiotef from his stela at Jebel Barkal, active around 400 BC.

Aten

Aten (Egyptian itn) is the ancient Egyptian sun-disk elevated by Akhenaten in the Amarna Period (c. 1350-1325 BC) to sole state god, worshipped in open-air temples at Akhetaten (Amarna) until Tutankhamun restored the traditional pantheon.

Atenism

Atenism, the Aten religion or Amarna religion, was the state cult Akhenaten established in Egypt c. 1353–1336 BCE, worshipping the sun disk alone, suppressing Amun, and collapsing after his death.

Athaliah (עֲתַלְיָה)

Athaliah was a queen of Judah who reigned from 841 to 835 BC, the only ruling queen in the biblical record, before being deposed by the priest Jehoiada.

Athlophoros of Berenice

The athlophoros of Berenice was an annual eponymous priestly office of the Ptolemaic dynastic cult at Alexandria, serving the deified Queen Berenice II from 211/210 BC.

Athribis Stela

The Athribis Stela is a royal Egyptian inscription from Athribis in the Nile Delta, recording the Libyan attack on Egypt in Merneptah's fifth regnal year.

Ati (queen of Punt)

Ati, also rendered Atiya or Aty, was the wife of Parehu, chief of the land of Punt, one of only two named Puntites, shown in Hatshepsut's reliefs at Deir el-Bahari.

Atlanersa

Atlanersa was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, reigning about 653 to 643 BC, after the end of the 25th Dynasty's rule in Egypt.

Atta-hamiti-Inshushinak

Atta-hamiti-Inshushinak (Atta-ḫamiti-Inšušinak) was a late Neo-Elamite king of Anzan and Susa, son of Hutran-tepti, attested by inscriptions and a stela from Susa now in the Louvre.

Attahushu

Attahushu, also written Atta-hušu, was an Elamite ruler of Susa during the Sukkalmah period who claimed Shilhaha as ancestor and built or restored temples including one to Nanna.

Attarissiya

Attarissiya, also written Attariššiya, was a leader called the "man of Ahhiyawa" in Hittite texts of the late 15th and early 14th century BC, known for attacking the Hittite vassal Madduwatta and raiding Cyprus.

Attenu

Attenu, also known as Attanu, was a Hurrian diviner and chief priest in the Late Bronze Age kingdom of Ugarit, known as the teacher of the scribe Ilimilku.

Atuna

Atuna was a small tributary kingdom of the Tabal region in Iron Age Anatolia, ruled by Askwisis and Kurti and listed by Tiglath-pileser III in the 8th century BC.

Aulic titulature

Aulic titulature is the system of court ranks and honorific titles that regulated protocol and precedence among officials and courtiers of Ptolemaic Egypt, with titles like philos and syngenes.

Autaritus

Autaritus, also known as Autaritos, was a Gallic mercenary commander in Carthaginian service who became one of three chief leaders of the Mercenary War against Carthage, 241–238 BC.

Autobiography of Khnumhotep I

The Autobiography of Khnumhotep I is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian tomb inscription in Tomb 14 at Beni Hassan recording the career of Khnumhotep I, first Twelfth Dynasty governor of the Oryx nome.

Autobiography of Tjetji

The Autobiography of Tjetji is a tomb stela, British Museum EA 614, inscribed for Tjetji, chief treasurer at the Theban court under Intef II and Intef III.

Autobiography of Weni

The Autobiography of Weni, also printed as Uni, is a Sixth Dynasty Egyptian inscription from Abydos recording the official Weni's promotions and five military campaigns.

Avignon Punic inscription

The Avignon Punic inscription is a Punic funerary stele found at Avignon, France, in 1897, commemorating a woman named Zaybeqat and cataloged as KAI 70.

Awan dynasty

The Awan dynasty, also known as the Dynasty of Awan, was a dynasty of Elam in southwestern Iran, known from the Sumerian King List and a king list from Susa.

Awarikus

Awarikus, also written Awariku or Warika and probably the Urikki of Assyrian records, was an 8th-century BC king of Ḫiyawa, the Iron Age kingdom in the Cilician plain that Assyrian sources call Que.

Awawa

Awawa (Egyptian AwAw) was a Kushite ruler known only from Middle Kingdom Egyptian execration texts, dated to about 1800–1700 BCE, son of KAny and brother of the Kushite ruler SriAhi.

Awsan

Awsan (Awsān) was an ancient South Arabian kingdom centered on the Wadi Markha in Yemen, flourishing in the 8th and 7th centuries BC and crushed by Saba's Karib'il Watar.

Ay (pharaoh)

Ay, also known as Itnetjer-ay and by the throne name Kheperkheperure, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty who ruled for about four years, ca. 1327–1323 BC, immediately after Tutankhamun.

Aya-rammu

Aya-rammu, also rendered Aya-ramu or 'Ilāya-rām, was king of Edom around 701 BC, listed in Sennacherib's annals among the Levantine rulers who submitted to Assyria.

Ayakalla

Ayakalla was governor of the Mesopotamian city of Umma under the Ur III dynasty, succeeding Ur-Lisi and serving from about 2040 to 2020 BC; he is known from administrative tablets.

Aylimas

Ailymas was a North African ruler called "king of the Libyans" by Diodorus Siculus, allied with Agathocles in 310 BC, when he was defeated and killed.

Ayyab

Ayyab, also spelled Ayab, was a Levantine vassal ruler of the mid-fourteenth century BC, known from the Amarna letters as the writer of letter EA 364 to the Egyptian king.