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Biographical inscription of Sabni
The biographical inscription of Sabni (Egyptian Sꜣbn(j)) is a hieroglyphic tomb-façade text at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan, recording the Dynasty 6 governor Sabni, son of Mekhu, under Pepi II.
Birhurtura
Birhurtura, also written Birhar-tura, is an officer of Uruk in the Sumerian poem Gilgamesh and Aga, which tells of Aga of Kish besieging Uruk under Gilgamesh.
Biridašwa
Biridašwa, also spelled Biridashwa or Biridaswa, was a ruler of a Canaanite city-state who appears in the Amarna letters, the diplomatic archive of Akhenaten's reign in the 14th century BC.
Biridiya
Biridiya, also Biridija, was the Canaanite mayor of Megiddo under Egyptian overlordship in the mid-14th century BCE, known for eight Amarna letters pleading for troops against the hostile ruler Labaya.
Birth Legend of Sargon of Akkad
The Birth Legend of Sargon of Akkad, also called the Legend of Sargon of Akkad, is an Akkadian pseudo-autobiography recounting Sargon's birth and rise to kingship.
Biryawaza
Biryawaza, also known as Birjawaza, was a dignitary of the mid-14th century BC Amarna age who served as an agent of Egyptian rule in Syria-Palestine and is linked with Damascus.
Bisi
Bisi, Ge'ez for 'man of...', is a royal epithet borne by Aksumite kings from Endubis to Wa'zeb, attested in inscriptions and coin legends over 250 years.
Bit Adini
Bit Adini (Bīt-Adini), known in the Hebrew Bible as Beth-Eden, was an Aramean kingdom on the middle Euphrates with its capital at Til Barsip, conquered by Assyria in 856 BC.
Bit Agusi
Bit Agusi, also written Bit Agushi, was an Aramean kingdom in northern Syria with its capital at Arpad (modern Tell Rifa'at), annexed by Assyria in 740 BCE.
Bit Bahiani
Bit Bahiani was an Aramean principality on the Habur river in northeastern Syria, centered on Guzana, modern Tell Halaf, attested from 894 BC and annexed by Assyria in the early eighth century BC.
Bīt mēseri
Bīt mēseri, meaning "house of enclosure", is a first-millennium BC Mesopotamian ritual series in which an exorcist expelled demons from a patient's house over four days.
Bīt rimki
Bīt rimki (Bit rimki), Akkadian for "house of washing," is an Assyrian royal purification ritual in which an exorcist purified the king with water and prayers to Šamaš.
Bit-Amukkani
Bit-Amukkani was a large Chaldean tribe of southern Babylonia between Nippur and Uruk, with its capital at Šapīya, where Mukin-zeri was besieged by Tiglath-pileser III in 731 BC.
Bit-Halupe
Bit-Halupe (بيت خلوبي), also written Bit-Ḫalupe and Bet-Halupe, was a small Aramean emirate on the middle Euphrates with its capital at Suru, annexed by Assyria under Tiglath-pileser III.
Bit-Hamban
Bit-Hamban, also Bīt Ḫamban or Bīt Habban, was a district and later Assyrian province in the central Zagros, attested from after 1157 BC to 612 BC.
Bit-Iakin
Bit-Iakin, more commonly written Bit-Yakin, was a Chaldean tribal polity in the marshlands of southern Babylonia, an adversary of Assyria in the 8th century BC.
Bit-Laqe
Bit-Laqe, also known as Laqe, was an Aramean tribal confederation on the Middle Euphrates in the early 1st millennium BC, inheriting the territory of the kingdom of Khana.
Bit-Zamani
Bit-Zamani, also written Bet-Zamani, was an Aramean kingdom of the upper Tigris valley centered on Amida, best known from Neo-Assyrian records and later absorbed into the Assyrian province of Amēdu.
Bithyas
Bithyas (Greek Βιθύας), also spelled Bithias, was a Numidian cavalry commander who deserted from Rome's ally Gulussa to Carthage in 148 BC during the Third Punic War.
Blacas ewer
The Blacas ewer is a brass ewer inlaid with silver and copper, made in Mosul in 1232 by Shuja' ibn Man'a al-Mausili and held by the British Museum since 1866.
Blacas papyri
The Blacas papyri are Imperial Aramaic papyri from Saqqara, Egypt, dating to the late 5th and 4th centuries BC, mostly fragments of the Story of Ahiqar.
Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is an inscribed Neo-Assyrian limestone monument erected in 825 BC at Kalhu, best known for a relief of the Israelite king Jehu paying tribute.
Black-topped pottery
Black-topped pottery is a Predynastic Egyptian ware with a burnished red body and black rim, typical of Naqada I and II, about 4000 to 3000 BC.
Blau Monuments
The Blau Monuments are two inscribed stone objects of the late fourth or early third millennium BC, among the earliest known Sumerian inscriptions, held in the British Museum.
Blemmyan language
Blemmyan is the language of the Blemmyes, known from about ninety personal names in late antique Greek and Coptic documents, and closely related to Beja.
Blemmyes
The Blemmyes (Blemmyae) were a nomadic pastoralist people of the Eastern Desert between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea, best known as raiders of Roman Egypt and rivals of Meroitic Kush.
Blemyomachia
The Blemyomachia (also spelled Blemmyomachia) is a fragmentary anonymous Greek epic poem on papyrus celebrating a Roman victory over the Blemmyes, doubtfully attributed to Olympiodorus of Thebes.
Bocchoris vase
The Bocchoris vase is an Egyptian faience situla bearing the cartouche of pharaoh Wahkare Bakenrenef (Bocchoris), found in 1895 in an Etruscan chamber tomb at Tarquinia, Italy.
Bocchus I
Bocchus I was king of Mauretania from about 110 BC, best known for seizing his ally Jugurtha and delivering him to Sulla in 105 BC, ending the Jugurthine War.
Bodashtart
Bodashtart (Bdʾštrt), also rendered Bod'aštart, was king of the Sidonians in the late 6th century BC, known from about thirty inscriptions recording his building works at Sidon.