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EA 17
EA 17 is a clay tablet letter from Tushratta, king of Mitanni, to Amenhotep III of Egypt, renewing their alliance in the mid-fourteenth century BCE.
EA 23
EA 23 is an Amarna letter from Tušratta of Mitanni to Amenhotep III of Egypt, announcing the journey of the statue of the goddess Šauška of Nineveh.
EA 26
EA 26 is an Akkadian cuneiform letter from Tushratta, king of Mitanni, to Queen Tiye in Akhenaten's reign, complaining that promised solid-gold statues never arrived.
EA 38
EA 38 is a cuneiform clay tablet in the Amarna letters, sent by the king of Alashiya to the king of Egypt in the mid-14th century BC.
EA 9
EA 9 is a cuneiform tablet in the Amarna correspondence, a letter from Babylonian king Burna-Buriash II to the Egyptian king, written around 1350 BC.
Ea-iluta-bani family
The Ea-ilūtu-bāni were a Babylonian family of Borsippa, modern Birs Nimrud, known from an archive of about 325 cuneiform tablets spanning the eighth to fifth centuries BC.
Ea-mukin-zeri
Ea-mukin-zeri was a king of Babylon, the second ruler of the Second Dynasty of the Sealand, who reigned for five months in 1008 BC between Simbar-Šipak and Kaššu-nādin-aḫhe.
Eanna archive
The Eanna archive is a corpus of Babylonian cuneiform tablets from the Ishtar temple at Uruk, spanning the late seventh to early fifth centuries BC.
Eanna-shum-iddina
Eanna-shum-iddina, also written Eanna-šuma-iddina, was governor of the Sealand in southern Babylonia around 1100 BC, known from a British Museum boundary stone recording his grant of land to Gula-eresh.
Eannatum
Eannatum (Eanatum) was ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash around 2450 BC, best known for the Stele of the Vultures, his victory monument over rival Umma.
Eannatum's campaign against Elam
Eannatum's campaign against Elam was a victory won around 2450 BC by Eannatum, ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash, known almost entirely from his own royal inscriptions.
Eannatum's conquests
Eannatum's conquests were the campaigns of Eannatum, ruler of Lagash around 2450 BC, against Umma, Elam, Uruk, Ur, Kish, Mari, and other states, recorded on the Stele of the Vultures.
Early Assyrian period
The Early Assyrian period is a phase of Assyrian history covering Aššur, a city-state on the Tigris, ending around 2025 BC with the Old Assyrian period.
Early Dynastic Period (Egypt)
The Early Dynastic Period of Egypt, also called the Archaic Period, spans the First and Second Dynasties, from Egypt's unification around 3100 BC to about 2686 BC.
Early Dynastic period (Mesopotamia)
The Early Dynastic period, also called the Early Dynastic Period of Sumer, was the era of competing Sumerian city-states in southern Mesopotamia, c. 2900–2334 BC.
Earthquake storm hypothesis
The earthquake storm hypothesis, proposed by Amos Nur and Eric Cline in 2000, attributes the Late Bronze Age collapse to a 50-year series of earthquakes.
East India House Inscription
The East India House Inscription is a large limestone building inscription of King Nebuchadnezzar II, carved at Babylon and now kept in the British Museum.
Ebabbar archive
The Ebabbar archive is the tablet archive of the Ebabbar temple of Šamaš at Sippar, spanning Neo-Babylonian to early Persian rule and the largest of its kind.
Ebana
Ebana of Aksum was a king of the Kingdom of Aksum around 440–470 AD, attested through his gold, silver, and bronze coins bearing Ge'ez legends and a cross.
Ebed-melech
Ebed-melech was a Cushite official at the court of Zedekiah, king of Judah, who rescued the prophet Jeremiah from a cistern during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem.
Ebers Papyrus
The Ebers Papyrus is a large ancient Egyptian medical papyrus, bought in Thebes by Georg Ebers in 1872/73 and held by Leipzig University Library since 1873.
Ebla tablets
The Ebla tablets, also called the Ebla archives, are over 15,000 cuneiform tablets from Ebla, Syria, written in Eblaite in the twenty-fourth century BCE and excavated by an Italian expedition between 1974 and 1976.
Ebla–Abarsal treaty
The Ebla–Abarsal treaty, also known as the Treaty between Ebla and Abarsal, is a clay tablet from Ebla, Syria, recording the oldest known peace treaty between two states, around 2350 BC.
Eblaite language
Eblaite is an archaic East Semitic language of the third quarter of the 3rd millennium BC, recorded in over 15,000 cuneiform tablets from the archives of Ebla in Syria.
Ebony label of Den
The ebony label of Den is a small inscribed ebony plaque from King Den's First Dynasty tomb at Abydos, now held in the British Museum.
Ebro treaty
The Ebro treaty, also the Treaty of 226 BC, was an agreement between Hasdrubal the Fair of Carthage and Rome barring Carthaginians from crossing the Ebro in arms.
Eclectic Chronicle
The Eclectic Chronicle, numbered ABC 24, is a Babylonian chronicle on tablet BM 27859 in the British Museum, summarizing Babylonian history from about 1080 BC onward.
Edict of Cyrus
The Edict of Cyrus, also known as Cyrus's edict, was Cyrus the Great's 539 BC proclamation permitting Judean exiles to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple.
Edict of Telipinu
The Edict of Telipinu, also called the Proclamation of Telipinu, is an Old Hittite royal text issued by King Telipinu around 1525–1500 BC, fixing the rule of succession after decades of dynastic murders.
Edom (אֱדוֹם)
Edom (אֱדוֹם), Iron Age kingdom south of the Dead Sea in modern Jordan and Israel; also Idumaea. Known from biblical, Egyptian, and Assyrian sources; Assyrian vassal from 732 BCE, overrun by the Nabataeans by the 4th century BCE.