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Hurrian personal names
Hurrian personal names are names of Hurrian origin on cuneiform tablets from the late third millennium BC onward, the principal evidence for Hurrian religion and society.
Hurrian songs
The Hurrian songs, also called Hurrian Hymns, are cuneiform tablets from Ugarit, Syria, bearing the oldest substantially preserved notated music, including a hymn to Nikkal.
Hüseyindede vases
The Hüseyindede vases are Early Hittite polychrome relief vessels found at Hüseyindede Tepe, about 45 km north-east of Boğazköy in Turkey, dated to the 16th century BCE.
Hushai
Hushai, also spelled Chusai, was a courtier of King David called the Archite and 'the king's friend', who defeated the counsel of Ahithophel during Absalom's revolt, as told in 2 Samuel 15–17.
Husham (Edomite king)
Husham is the third of the eight early kings of Edom in Genesis 36 and 1 Chronicles 1, from the land of the Temanites, reigning between Jobab and Hadad.
Hutelutush-Inshushinak
Hutelutush-Inshushinak, also known as Ḫutelutuš-Inšušinak, was the last king of Elam's Shutrukid dynasty and of the Middle Elamite period, reigning about 1120–1100 BCE and defeated by Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon.
Hutelutush-Inshushinak's flight to Anshan
Hutelutush-Inshushinak's flight to Anshan was the withdrawal of Elam's last Shutrukid king from Susa after an attack by Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon, ending the dynasty.
Huy (Viceroy of Kush)
Huy was an Egyptian official who held the office of King's Son of Kush, the viceroy heading the Egyptian administration of Nubia during the New Kingdom.
Huya (steward)
Huya was an Egyptian official of the late Eighteenth Dynasty who served as steward of Queen Tiye's household and owned rock tomb no. 1 at Amarna.
Huzziya (Zalpuwa)
Ḫuzziya of Zalpuwa was a king of the Anatolian city-state of Zalpuwa, probably in the 18th century BC, known only from the Anitta text, which says Anitta took him captive to Nesa.
Huzziya I
Ḫuzziya I (Huzziyas I) was a Hittite Old Kingdom king who reigned briefly around 1530 BC, between Ammuna and Telipinu, who dethroned and exiled him.
Huzziya II
Huzziya II (Ḫuzziya II) was a Hittite Middle Kingdom king of the mid-15th century BC, reigning between Zidanta II and Muwattalli I and traditionally murdered by Muwattalli, his bodyguard chief, who seized the throne.
Hyksos
Hyksos (Egyptian heqa khasut, 'rulers of foreign lands'): West Semitic Fifteenth Dynasty kings who ruled northern Egypt from Avaris (Tell el-Dab'a), c. 1650–1550 BC, until expelled by Ahmose I.
Hyksos conquest of Egypt
The Hyksos conquest of Egypt, or Hyksos invasion, was the takeover of northern and Middle Egypt by the West Semitic Fifteenth Dynasty, ruling from Avaris around 1638–1530 BC.
Hymn to Enlil
The Hymn to Enlil, also known as Enlil A or Hymn to the E-kur, is a Sumerian hymn praising the god Enlil and his temple, the E-kur at Nippur in Iraq.
Hymn to Gula (Bullussa-rabi)
Bullussa-rabi's Hymn to Gula is a 200-verse Akkadian hymn praising the healing goddess Gula, attributed to the Babylonian exorcist Bullussa-rabi and probably composed in the Middle Babylonian period.
Hymn to the Nile
The Hymn to the Nile, also called the Hymn to Hapy, is an ancient Egyptian hymn to the annual Nile flood, personified as the god Hapy.
Hyrcanus (Tobiad)
Hyrcanus, son of Joseph the Tobiad, was a Jewish magnate who ruled east of the Jordan and built the estate at 'Iraq al-Amir in modern Jordan.
Hyssaldomus
Hyssaldomos, also spelled Hyssaldomus, was a Carian dynast of Mylasa in the early 4th century BC, father of Hecatomnus and grandfather of Mausolus, known from inscriptions and small silver coins.
Iah (queen)
Iah, whose name means "Moon", was an 11th Dynasty Egyptian queen of Thebes, wife of king Intef III and mother of Mentuhotep II, who reunited Egypt at the end of the First Intermediate Period.
Iaib
Iaib, also read Ibiaw, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty with the throne name Wahibre, known chiefly from the Turin King List and a scarab in Los Angeles.
Iamunedjeh
Iamunedjeh, also written Amunedjeh, was an 18th-Dynasty Egyptian official who served Thutmose III as first royal herald and owned Theban tomb TT 84 at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, later usurped by the high priest Mery.
Iaret
Iaret was a royal woman of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, a wife of Thutmose IV attested around 1400 to 1390 BCE on rock monuments in Nubia and Sinai.
Iarlagan
Iarlagan, also rendered Yarlagan, was a Gutian king of the late 3rd millennium BC, named king of Gutium in a contemporary inscription by Nammahni, governor of Umma.
Iatie (queen of the Arabs)
Iati'e was a queen of the Arabs, known only from two passages in the inscriptions of the Assyrian king Sennacherib, which name her to identify her captured brother Basqanu.
Ibal-pi-El I
Ibal-pi-El I (Ibāl-pī-El I) was a ruler of the Mesopotamian city-state of Eshnunna, modern Tell Asmar, in the first half of the 19th century BC.
Ibal-pi-El II
Ibal-pi-El II, also written Ibalpiel II, was king of Eshnunna in the Diyala region around 1784 to 1770 BC, a contemporary of Hammurabi known from year-name tablets.
Ibate
Ibate of Gutium is a Gutian king known only from the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a three-year reign between Yarlagab and Yarla; no contemporary inscription names him.
Ibbi-Sin
Ibbi-Sin, also known as Ibbi-Suen, was the fifth and last king of the Third Dynasty of Ur in Mesopotamia, reigning 24 years before Elamite forces captured him and took him to Elam.
Ibbi-Sin's campaigns against the Amorites
Ibbi-Sin's campaigns against the Amorites were military expeditions of the last king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, attested in his second regnal year by a ration tablet.