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Bodashtart inscriptions
The Bodashtart inscriptions, also known as the Bod'astart inscriptions, are about thirty Phoenician royal texts of King Bodashtart of Sidon, recording temple building and hydraulic works around 525–500 BC.
Bodes
Bodes, also known as Boodes, was a Carthaginian senator who in 260 BC trapped the Roman consul Scipio at Lipara and took his surrender with seventeen ships.
Boğazköy archive
The Boğazköy archive, also called the Hattusa archive, is the corpus of some 25,000 to 35,000 cuneiform tablets from Ḫattuša, capital of the Hittite kingdom, about 1650–1180 BC.
Bomilcar (admiral)
Bomilcar was a Carthaginian general appointed against Agathocles of Syracuse in 310 BC who later attempted to make himself tyrant of Carthage and was crucified around 308 BC.
Bomilcar (Numidian)
Bomilcar was a Numidian nobleman in the confidence of King Jugurtha during the Jugurthine War, serving him before conspiring against the king, who executed him.
Bomilcar (suffete)
Bomilcar was a Carthaginian suffete and naval commander of the late 3rd century BC, married to a daughter of Hamilcar Barca and father of Hanno.
Book of Caverns
The Book of Caverns is a New Kingdom funerary text of ancient Egypt describing the sun god Ra's nightly journey through six caverns of the netherworld, or Duat.
Book of Deggua
The Book of Deggua (Ge'ez ድጓ), also written Deggwa, is the antiphonal hymnbook of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, traditionally ascribed to Saint Yared of Aksum in the sixth century.
Book of Gates
The Book of Gates is a New Kingdom Egyptian royal funerary text describing the sun god's nightly journey through the netherworld, divided into twelve serpent-guarded gates.
Book of Nut
The Book of Nut, anciently the Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars, is an Egyptian astronomical text first attested at Abydos in the 13th century BCE.
Book of the Dead
Book of the Dead (Egyptian: Going Forth by Day, prt m hrw): corpus of about 200 ancient Egyptian funerary spells on papyri, shrouds, and coffins, New Kingdom to Ptolemaic; numbered 1–165 by Lepsius in 1842; includes Spell 125 judgment.
Book of the Dead of Qenna
The Book of the Dead of Qenna is a New Kingdom funerary papyrus of a Theban merchant named Qenna, the longest manuscript in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden.
Book of the Earth
The Book of the Earth is an ancient Egyptian royal funerary composition of Dynasties 19–20, decorating royal sarcophagus chambers with scenes of the sun god's voyage through the underworld.
Book of the Faiyum
The Book of the Faiyum is an ancient Egyptian text presenting the Faiyum oasis as a mythical center of prosperity, centered on the crocodile god Sobek.
Book of the Heavenly Cow
The Book of the Heavenly Cow is an ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom, first attested in Tutankhamun's tomb, recounting humanity's rebellion against the sun god.
Book of the Himyarites
The Book of the Himyarites is a fragmentary Syriac narrative about the persecution of the Christians of Najran around 523 CE and the Aksumite campaign that followed, published by Axel Moberg in 1924.
Books of Breathing
The Books of Breathing are Egyptian funerary texts of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, descended from the Book of the Dead and meant to reanimate the dead.
Border treaty of Kara-indaš and Aššur-bēl-nišešu
The border treaty of Kara-indaš and Aššur-bēl-nišešu, also called the Kara-indaš treaty, was a boundary agreement between Kassite Babylonia and Assyria concluded around 1407 BCE and confirmed by later kings.
Border war of Assur-resh-ishi I and Nebuchadnezzar I
The border war of Assur-resh-ishi I and Nebuchadnezzar I was a late 12th-century BC conflict on the Assyrian-Babylonian frontier, ending in Nebuchadnezzar's total defeat at Idi.
Bostar (at Saguntum)
Bostar was a Carthaginian general of the Second Punic War who guarded Spanish hostages at Saguntum, which the Iberian noble Abelux tricked him into surrendering in 217 BC.
Bostar (Carthaginian commander)
Bostar (Greek Βώστωρ) was a Carthaginian general of the First Punic War, elected in 256 or 255 BC to oppose the consul Regulus's invasion of Africa.
Bostar (Carthaginian envoy)
Bostar was a Carthaginian envoy sent by Hannibal to Philip V of Macedon in 215 BC to ratify their alliance against Rome; he was captured at sea by the Romans.
Boundary settlement of Adad-nirari I and Nazi-Maruttash
The boundary settlement of Adad-nirari I and Nazi-Maruttash was the peace and border agreement between Assyria and Kassite Babylonia after Adad-nirari I's victory, probably around 1280 BC.
Boundary Stelae of Akhetaten
The Boundary Stelae of Akhetaten, also called the Amarna boundary stelae, are sixteen rock-cut stelae around Amarna marking the limits of the capital Akhenaten founded.
Boybeypınarı inscription
The Boybeypınarı inscription is a set of four Hieroglyphic Luwian basalt blocks from Adıyaman Province, Turkey, dedicated to the goddess Kubaba by Panamuwati, wife of the Kummuh king Suppiluliuma.
Breaches of the Great Dam of Marib
The breaches of the Great Dam of Marib were the recorded failures of the ancient irrigation dam at Maʾrib in Yemen, with the final breach traditionally dated around AD 570.
Broken Obelisk
The Broken Obelisk, also known as the Obelisk of Ashur-bel-kala, is the upper part of a stone obelisk found at Nineveh in 1853 and now held in the British Museum.
Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III
The Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III is a small bronze statuette in the Louvre showing the Egyptian pharaoh as a reclining sphinx, dated by inscription to 1479–1425 BC.
Bronze Tablet
The Bronze Tablet is a Hittite bronze treaty tablet recording the treaty between King Tudhaliya IV and his cousin Kurunta of Tarhuntassa, found at Hattusa in 1986.
Brooklyn Medical Papyrus
The Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, also called the Snakebite Papyrus or Traité d'Ophiologie, is an Egyptian papyrus in the Brooklyn Museum describing 38 snakes and giving about 140 snakebite treatments.