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Kilamuwa inscription
The Kilamuwa inscription, also called the Kulamuwa stele and cataloged as KAI 24, is a 9th-century BC Phoenician royal inscription of King Kilamuwa of Sam'al, found at Zincirli in 1902.
Kilamuwa sceptre
The Kilamuwa sceptre is a small gold object found at Zincirli, ancient Sam'al, engraved with a short 9th-century BC West Semitic inscription naming Kilamuwa, son of Ḥayya, king of Sam'al.
Kinda (tribe)
The Kinda (Kindah) were a tribe of central Arabia, attested from the 2nd century CE, whose princes built a large kingdom in the 5th and 6th centuries.
Kindattu
Kindattu was a king of the Shimashki dynasty in western Iran, best known as the captor of Ibbi-Sin, the last king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, in 2004 BC.
King Neferkare and General Sasenet
King Neferkare and General Sasenet, also known as Neferkare and Sasenet, is a fragmentary ancient Egyptian tale about King Neferkare (Pepi II) secretly visiting his general Sasenet at night.
King of Anshan
King of Anshan was a royal title of the rulers of Elam, later borne by the early Persian kings Teispes, Cyrus I, Cambyses I, and Cyrus the Great.
King of Battle
King of Battle (Akkadian šar tamḫāri) is an Akkadian epic about Sargon of Akkad's campaign against Purushanda in Anatolia, undertaken to rescue his oppressed merchants.
King of Kish
King of Kish (Sumerian lugal Kish) was the title of the rulers of Kish, a city-state in northern Babylonia, during the Early Dynastic period of Sumer.
King of Saba and Dhu Raydan
King of Saba and Dhu Raydan (mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn) was the royal title of the rulers of the unified kingdoms of Saba and Himyar in ancient South Arabia.
King of Sumer and Akkad
King of Sumer and Akkad is a Mesopotamian royal title claiming lordship over Sumer and Akkad, first used regularly by the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur.
King of the Four Corners
King of the Four Corners, also known as King of the Four Quarters, is a Mesopotamian royal title introduced by Narām-Sîn of Akkad around 2254 BCE.
Kingdom of Ḫana
The Kingdom of Ḫana, also written Khana, was a Syrian kingdom of the second millennium BC centered on Terqa in the Middle Euphrates region, arising after the fall of Mari.
Kings of Sidon
The kings of Sidon were the hereditary rulers of the Phoenician city of Sidon, attested from Zimrida to Abdalonymos, appointed by Alexander the Great in 333 BCE.
Kirri
Kirri of Que was a king of the Cilician kingdom of Que, placed on its throne by Shalmaneser III of Assyria in 833 BC in place of his father Kate.
Kirua
Kirua was the city ruler of Illubru in Cilicia who rebelled against the Assyrian king Sennacherib, closing the Cilician road before being flayed at Nineveh.
Kirum
Kirum, also spelled Kīrum, was a princess of Mari and daughter of its last king, Zimri-Lim, married to Haya-Sumu of Ilan-Sura and known from letters in the Mari archives.
Kish tablet
The Kish tablet is a small limestone tablet excavated at Kish in southern Iraq, inscribed with proto-cuneiform signs around 3200-3000 BC recording commodities and brewing.
Kition necropolis Phoenician inscriptions
The Kition necropolis Phoenician inscriptions are five funerary stelai bearing Phoenician epitaphs, found at the Mnimata necropolis at Kition, Cyprus, and dated to the 5th and 4th centuries BC.
Kition stele
The Kition stele is a basalt monument of the Assyrian king Sargon II, found at Kition near modern Larnaka, Cyprus, recording tribute from seven Cypriot kings around 709 BC.
Kition tariff inscription
The Kition tariff, also known as the Kition Tariffs, is a Phoenician gypsum tablet from Kition, Cyprus, dated to the fifth–fourth century BCE, recording accounts and expenditures of the city's royal administration.
Kiya
Kiya was a secondary wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten during Egypt's Amarna Period, known for her unique title "Greatly Beloved Wife" and monuments later erased from record.
Kizzuwatna
Kizzuwatna was a Bronze Age kingdom in the Cilician plain of southeastern Anatolia, a buffer between the Hittites and Mittani before its absorption into the Hittite empire.
Kneeling Bull with Vessel
The Kneeling Bull with Vessel is a silver figurine of a bull with a human kneeling posture, holding a spouted vessel, from Proto-Elamite Iran around 3100–2900 BCE.
Kombaphis
Kombaphis, also transmitted as Combaphis or Kombapheus, is a fictitious traitor priest in Ctesias' lost Persica, said to have betrayed Egypt to Cambyses II in 525 BC.
Kot Diji phase
The Kot Diji phase, also called the Kot Diji culture, was an Early Harappan culture of the Indus region, dated roughly 3300 to 2600 BCE.
Kothon
Kothon (Greek κώθων, cothon): ancient term for Carthage's late Punic ports, a Spartan vase type, and a dug-basin harbour type; the Motya kothon is now reinterpreted as a sacred pool of Ba'al.
Ksour Essef cuirass
The Ksour Essef cuirass, or Punic cuirass of Ksour Essef, is a gilded bronze anatomical cuirass of Greek type found in a Punic tomb in Tunisia in 1909.
KTU 1.41
KTU 1.41, also cataloged as RS 1.003 and CTA 35, is a Ugaritic ritual tablet from Ugarit prescribing month-long Vintage sacrifices, excavated in 1929 by Claude Schaeffer.
Kubaba (queen of Kish)
Kubaba, also known as Kug-Bau, is the only woman named as a reigning ruler on the Sumerian King List, credited with a 100-year reign over Kish.
Kubatum
Kubatum, written ku-ba-tum (Kubātum), was a concubine of Shu-Sin, king of Ur around 2037–2028 BC, known from a Sumerian love song calling her "my queen Kubatum".