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Joab
Joab, Hebrew יוֹאָב (Yoab), son of Zeruiah and nephew of David, was commander of King David's army around 1000 BC, capturing Jerusalem and later executed on Solomon's orders.
Joah (son of Asaph)
Joah, son of Asaph, was the royal recorder of Judah under King Hezekiah, named in 2 Kings 18 as meeting the Assyrian commander about 701 BC.
Joash of Judah
Joash of Judah, also called Jehoash, was a king of Judah who reigned forty years, dated 835–796 BC, and funded repairs of the Temple in Jerusalem.
Jobab ben Zerah
Jobab ben Zerah, also known as Jobab of Bozrah, is a legendary king of Edom in Genesis 36, second in the list of eight pre-Israelite kings.
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer is an American archaeologist and anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who has excavated the Indus civilization city of Harappa since 1986 and studies its crafts, trade, and writing.
Jotham
Jotham (Hebrew Yotam, also rendered Joatham) was a king of Judah in the eighth century BC, the son and successor of Uzziah and father of Ahaz, credited with building the Temple's upper gate.
Juba I
Juba I of Numidia was the last king of an independent Numidia, reigning from about 60 BC until his death in 46 BC after Caesar's victory at Thapsus.
Judah's revolts against Babylon
Judah's revolts against Babylon were the Kingdom of Judah's rebellions against the Neo-Babylonian Empire between 601 and 586 BC, ending with the fall of Jerusalem, the destruction of Solomon's Temple, and exile to Babylon.
Judean pillar figurine
The Judean pillar figurine, or Judahite pillar figurine, is a terracotta female figurine made in the kingdom of Judah from the eighth to the sixth century BC.
Judges of Tyre
The judges of Tyre were magistrates, probably suffetes, who headed Phoenician Tyre for about seven years after the fall of its monarchy under Babylonian overlordship.
Judicial Papyrus of Turin
The Judicial Papyrus of Turin, also called the Turin Judicial Papyrus, is a hieratic papyrus recording the trials of the harem conspiracy against Pharaoh Ramesses III, instigated by Queen Tiye.
Jugurtha
Jugurtha, in Latin Iugurtha, was king of Numidia in North Africa from 118 BC, whose war against Rome ended in his capture and execution in Rome in 104 BC.
Jugurthine War
The Jugurthine War, or Bellum Iugurthinum, was Rome's war against Jugurtha of Numidia from 112 BC, ending when Bocchus betrayed him to Sulla in 106 BC.
Juridical Stela
The Juridical Stela is a limestone stela from Karnak, Thebes, dated to Year 1 of King Nebiryraw I, recording the legal transfer of the governorship of El-Kab.
Jushur
Jushur, also written Ngushur, is the legendary first king of the First Dynasty of Kish in the Sumerian King List, said to reign 1,200 years immediately after the flood.
K. N. Dikshit
K. N. Dikshit, full name Kashinath Narayan Dikshit (1889–1946), was an Indian archaeologist, Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1937 to 1944, and excavator of the DK area at Mohenjo-daro.
Ka-Nefer-Nefer
Ka-Nefer-Nefer was a 19th Dynasty Egyptian noblewoman whose funerary mask, excavated at Saqqara in 1952, is held by the Saint Louis Art Museum amid an unresolved repatriation dispute with Egypt.
Ka-priest
A ka-priest (Egyptian ḥm-k3, "ka-servant") maintained the funerary cult of a dead person in ancient Egypt, performing offerings of bread, water, beer, and meat before the deceased's statue.
Kaaper
Kaaper, also written Ka-aper and known as Sheikh el-Beled, was an Old Kingdom Egyptian chief lector priest whose life-size wooden statue, found at Saqqara, is in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Kabir'il (king of Dedan)
Kabir'il (Dadanitic kbrʾl, Arabic كبر إل), son of Mata'il, was one of the few named kings of Dedan in north-west Arabia, conventionally placed in the 6th century BC and known only from Dadanitic inscriptions.
Kabti-ilani-Marduk
Kabti-ilāni-Marduk was a Babylonian poet and scribe of the Dabibi family, active around the eighth century BC, whom the Poem of Erra names as its composer.
Kadashman-Enlil I
Kadašman-Enlil I was a Kassite king of Babylon who reigned in the later fourteenth century BC and is known chiefly for his Amarna letters correspondence with pharaoh Amenhotep III.
Kadashman-Enlil II
Kadašman-Enlil II was a Kassite king of Babylon who reigned 1258–50 BC, succeeded Kadašman-Turgu, and received a letter from Ḫattušili III urging joint war against Egypt.
Kadashman-Harbe II
Kadašman-Ḫarbe II was a Kassite king of Babylon, the dynasty's 30th ruler, reigning about a year in the early 1220s BCE while Assyria's Tukulti-Ninurta I dominated Babylonia.
Kadashman-Turgu
Kadashman-Turgu, also known as Kadašman-Turgu, was the 24th king of the Kassite, or Third, Dynasty of Babylon, reigning from about 1281 to 1264 BC and corresponding with the Hittite king Hattusili III.
Kadašman-Harbe I
Kadašman-Harbe I, also known as Kadashman-Harbe I, was a Kassite king of Babylonia who ruled around 1400 BC, after Kara-indash and before his son Kurigalzu I.
Kaemsekhem
Kaemsekhem was a prince of the Egyptian Fourth Dynasty, recorded as a son of Kawab and Hetepheres II and a grandson of King Khufu, known from his Giza mastaba tomb.
Kaemtjenent
Kaemtjenent was a prince of Egypt's late Fifth Dynasty in the Old Kingdom, recorded as a possible son of King Djedkare Isesi, though some scholars assign him to Menkauhor instead.
Kaftari period
The Kaftari period is the occupation phase of ancient Anshan at Tal-e Malyan, Fars, Iran, dated about 2200–1600 BC and defined by its painted ceramics.
Kagemni
Kagemni, also called Memi, was chief justice and vizier of Egypt under King Teti of Dynasty 6, known from his decorated mastaba tomb at North Saqqara.