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Hadad the Edomite
Hadad the Edomite is an Edomite prince of 1 Kings 11 who fled Joab's massacre as a child, was sheltered in Egypt, and became an adversary of Solomon.
Hadad-yith'i
Hadad-yith'i, also Adad-it'i, was a ninth-century BC ruler of the Aramean city of Guzana, known only from the bilingual statue he dedicated to Hadad at Tell Fekheriye.
Hadadezer (king of Zobah)
Hadadezer, also spelled Hadarezer, was the Aramean king of Zobah, son of Rehob, whom the Hebrew Bible presents as David's opponent north of Damascus in the tenth century BC.
Hadanish
Hadanish, also rendered Hataniš, is the only king the Sumerian King List records for Hamazi, ruling 360 years after Kish was defeated; no contemporary inscription names him.
Hadrumetum Punic inscriptions
The Hadrumetum Punic inscriptions are Punic votive stelae from Hadrumetum, modern Sousse, Tunisia, dedicated to Tanit and Baal Hammon and known through the texts KAI 97, 98, and 99.
Hafit period
The Hafit period, or Hafit culture, was an early Bronze Age phase of southeastern Arabia (Oman and the UAE), named for its beehive tombs at Jebel Hafit.
Haft Tappeh archive
The Haft Tappeh archive, also known as the Kabnak tablets, is a corpus of administrative cuneiform tablets from Kabnak, near Susa, Iran, from the late fifteenth and early fourteenth century BC.
Hakor
Hakor, also known as Achoris, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-ninth Dynasty who reigned from about 393 to 380 BC and repelled two Persian invasions.
Hakra Ware culture
Hakra Ware culture is a pre-Harappan material culture of the Ghaggar-Hakra valley, dated to the fourth millennium BCE and identified by its distinctive handmade pottery, first recognized at Jalilpur.
Hallushu-Inshushinak
Hallushu-Inshushinak (Ḫallušu-Inšušinak), also known as Hallushu, was king of Elam from about 699 to 693 BC, succeeding his older brother Shutruk-Nahhunte II during the wars with Assyria.
Hallutash-Inshushinak
Hallutash-Inshushinak (Ḫallutuš-Inšušinak) was a king of Elam of the Middle Elamite period, ruling in the decades around 1200 BC and remembered as the father of Shutruk-Nahhunte I, founder of the Shutrukid dynasty.
Halparuntiya I (Gurgum)
Halparuntiya I was a king of Gurgum, a Neo-Hittite kingdom centered on modern Kahramanmaraş in southern Turkey, who reigned around 910 BC as the son of Muwizi and father of Muwatalli II.
Halparuntiya II (Gurgum)
Halparuntiya II, also rendered Qalparunda, was a king of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Gurgum, reigning from about 860 BC and appearing as a tributary of Shalmaneser III.
Halparuntiya III (Gurgum)
Halparuntiya III, also Qalparunda III, was a king of the Neo-Hittite state of Gurgum, capital at Marqas (modern Kahramanmaraş, Turkey), around 800 BC, known from a gate lion bearing a seven-generation genealogy.
Hama inscriptions
The Hama inscriptions, also called Hama orthostats or Hama stelae, are Hieroglyphic Luwian royal monuments from Hama, Syria, chiefly of the 9th-century BC kings Urhilina and Uratami.
Hamadab Stela
The Hamadab Stela is a sandstone stela found at Hamadab, south of Meroe in Sudan, bearing one of the longest Meroitic inscriptions, naming Queen Amanirenas and Prince Akinidad.
Hamilcar (officer of Drepanum)
Hamilcar was a Carthaginian general of the First Punic War who fortified Drepanum in Sicily about 260 BC and was defeated at Cape Ecnomus in 256 BC.
Hamilcar (son of Gisgo)
Hamilcar, son of Gisgo, was a Carthaginian general who fought Agathocles of Syracuse in Sicily from 311 BC and was captured and executed there in 309 BC.
Hamilcar (son of Hanno)
Hamilcar, son of Hanno, was a Carthaginian general who led the invasion of Sicily in 480 BC and was defeated and killed by Gelon of Syracuse at Himera.
Hamilcar the Samnite
Hamilcar the Samnite was a Carthaginian politician, co-leader of the democratic faction, whose 151 BC attack on a Numidian convoy helped bring on the Third Punic War.
Hamilcar's death at Helice
Hamilcar's death at Helice, also called the Battle of Helice, was the death in battle of Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca in Iberia in 229 or 228 BC.
Hamiyata
Hamiyata was a king of Masuwari, the Luwian name for Til Barsip on the Euphrates in Syria, ruling in the late 10th or early 9th century BC.
Hammurabi
Hammurabi (Hammurapi), sixth king of the Amorite First Dynasty of Babylon, reigned 1792–1750 BCE (Middle Chronology) and is known for the 282-law stele in the Louvre, found at Susa in 1901–02 and long debated as a law code versus royal monument.
Hammurabi II of Yamhad
Hammurabi II was a king of Yamhad, an Amorite kingdom whose capital was Halab (modern Aleppo, Syria), ruling in the middle of the 17th century BC.
Hammurabi's defeat of Elam
Hammurabi's defeat of Elam was a war fought around 1764 BC in which Babylon, allied with Mari and other states, ended Elamite suzerainty over Mesopotamia, marking the first step in Hammurabi's rise to dominance.
Hammurapih of Hana
Hammurapih of Hana, also known as Hammurapi of Hana, was a king of the land of Hana on the middle Euphrates in the sixteenth century BC.
Hampsicora
Hampsicora, also printed Ampsicora, was a Sardo-Punic landowner of Cornus in Sardinia who led the island's revolt against Roman rule in 215 BC during the Second Punic War.
Hamutal
Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, was a queen consort of Judah, wife of King Josiah and mother of the kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah in the late seventh century BC.
Hana texts
The Hana texts are the cuneiform tablets of the kingdom of Hana (Khana), a Syrian kingdom on the middle Euphrates, dating from about 1750 BC into the 16th century BC.
Hananiah (commander of the citadel)
Hananiah is a mid-5th-century BC official of Persian-period Yehud, named in Nehemiah 7:2 as commander of the citadel of Jerusalem and commended as more trustworthy and God-fearing than most.