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Adon (king of Ekron)
Adon was a Levantine king of the late 7th century BC, conventionally identified as king of Ekron, known only from an Aramaic letter appealing to Pharaoh for help.
Adon Papyrus
The Adon Papyrus is a nine-line Aramaic letter from about 600 BC, found at Saqqara in 1942, in which King Adon begs the pharaoh for help against Babylonian armies.
Adoption of Judaism by Himyar
The adoption of Judaism by Himyar, or Himyarite conversion to Judaism, made the Himyarite kingdom of ancient South Arabia Jewish between 380 and 384 CE.
Adoption Stela of Amenirdis I
The Adoption Stela of Amenirdis I is an Egyptian inscription recording Amenirdis I, daughter of Kashta, as successor to the God's Wife of Amun at Thebes.
Adoption Stela of Aspelta
The Adoption Stela of Aspelta is a hieroglyphic stela from year 3 of Kushite king Aspelta, recording the transfer of Madiqen's temple allowance to Henuttakhebit at Sanam.
Adoption Stela of Nitocris
The Adoption Stela of Nitocris, also known as the Stela of the Adoption of Nitocris, is a granite stela from Karnak recording Princess Nitocris's adoption as future God's Wife of Amun in 656 BC.
Adoption stelae of the God's Wives of Amun
The adoption stelae of the God's Wives of Amun are Theban inscriptions of the 7th and 6th centuries BC recording successors to Egypt's highest female priestly office.
Advice to a Prince
Advice to a Prince is a first-millennium BCE Akkadian admonitory text warning a king that neglecting justice and the privileges of Sippar, Nippur, and Babylon brings ruin.
Aedesius
Aedesius, also known as Edesius, was a fourth-century Tyrian who, with Frumentius, was carried to the Aksumite court, served as cup-bearer, and later returned to Tyre as a priest.
Aelius Gallus expedition
The Aelius Gallus expedition was a failed Roman invasion of Arabia Felix in 25–24 BC, led by Aelius Gallus, prefect of Egypt, on Augustus's orders; disease and treachery doomed it.
Agathoclea
Agathoclea, also transliterated Agathokleia, was a mistress of King Ptolemy IV Philopator who with her brother Agathocles dominated the Alexandrian court until a mob killed the family in 203 BC.
Agathocles (minister of Ptolemy IV)
Agathocles was a Ptolemaic courtier who served as chief minister under Ptolemy IV and then regent for the child Ptolemy V, until an Alexandrian mob killed him in 203 BC.
Agathocles's invasion of Africa
Agathocles's invasion of Africa, also called Agathocles's African campaign, was the crossing of a Syracusan army under Agathocles to North Africa in 310 BC to fight Carthage there until the peace of 306 BC.
Aglais (musician)
Aglais (Ancient Greek Ἀγλαΐς), daughter of Megakles, was a Hellenistic trumpet player who performed at the first great procession at Alexandria and was remembered for her gluttony.
Agrigentum inscription
The Agrigentum inscription is a Punic dedication on stone found in the tophet of Salammbô at Carthage, commemorating the Carthaginian capture of the Sicilian Greek city of Akragas (Agrigentum) in 406 BC.
Agron of Lydia
Agron of Lydia is the legendary founder of the Heraclid dynasty, named by Herodotus as the first of the Heracleidai to become king of Sardis.
Agum II
Agum II, also called Agum-kakrime, was an early Kassite ruler of Babylon in the sixteenth century BCE, known from one inscription claiming he returned Marduk's statue to Babylon.
Agum III
Agum III was a Kassite king of Babylon who flourished in the 15th century BC, a grandson of Burnaburiaš I who suppressed a Sealand revolt and captured Dur-Enlil.
Aha's campaign against Nubia
Aha's campaign against Nubia was a military action by Hor-Aha, an early First Dynasty king of Egypt, recorded on a year label from his tomb at Abydos.
Ahaha
Ahaha was an Old Assyrian businesswoman of the nineteenth century BC, daughter of the merchant Pūšu-kēn, known from 47 cuneiform texts at Kanesh in Anatolia.
Ahanakht I
Ahanakht I, also written Ahanekht, was an ancient Egyptian nomarch and Great Chief of the Hare Nome, buried at Deir el-Bersha in Middle Egypt in the late Eleventh Dynasty.
Ahar-Banas culture
The Ahar-Banas culture, also called the Ahar culture, was a Chalcolithic culture of Mewar in Rajasthan, India, known for copper metallurgy and dated about 3700 to 1800 BCE.
Ahatmilku
Ahatmilku, also written Ahat-milki, was a 13th-century BC queen of Ugarit, wife of King Niqmepa and mother of King Ammiṯtamru II, known from tablets excavated at Ras Shamra.
Ahaz
Ahaz, also known as Jehoahaz II, was king of Judah in the 8th century BC, son of Jotham and father of Hezekiah, who made Judah an Assyrian vassal.
Ahaziah of Israel
Ahaziah of Israel (Hebrew אֲחַזְיָה), son of Ahab and Jezebel, was king of Israel for about two years in the mid-9th century BC, dying after a fall in Samaria.
Ahaziah of Judah
Ahaziah of Judah, also called Jehoahaz, was a king of Judah who reigned less than a year and was killed in Jehu's coup in 841 BC.
Ahhiyawa
Ahhiyawa (earlier Ahhiya) is a Late Bronze Age land known only from Hittite cuneiform texts, most often identified with the Mycenaean palatial states of Greece.
Ahhiyawa texts
The Ahhiyawa texts are about twenty-six Hittite tablets, written between the fifteenth and thirteenth centuries BC, that mention a land most scholars identify with the Mycenaean Greek world.
Ahhotep I
Ahhotep I, also known as Ahhotpe, was an Egyptian queen of Thebes, wife of Seqenenre Tao and mother of Ahmose I, active around 1560-1530 BC.
Ahhotep II
Ahhotep II is the conventional name for a queen of Egypt's Seventeenth Dynasty, hypothetically a wife of King Kamose, whose gilded coffin was found at Thebes in 1859.