Sumerian King List (SKL) records a dynasty of six kings from Mari enjoying hegemony between the dynasty of Adab and the dynasty of Kish. The names of the Mariote...
Code of Hammurabi. Many of Babylon's kings were of foreign origin. Throughout the city's nearly two-thousand year history, it was ruled by kingsof native...
is however clear that parts of the list are fictional, as some known kings are not found on the list and other listedkings are not independently verified...
a few other dynasties, followed again by the kingsof Akkad. Bad-Tibira Shuruppak Sippar Kish Eridu Mari Adab Isin Ur Uruk The sources differ in their...
The listofkingsof Ebla includes the known monarchs of Ebla who ruled three consecutive kingdoms. For the first kingdom's monarchs, tablets listing offerings...
question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Babylon Eridu Isin Kish Lagash Larsa Mari Nippur Sippar Tuttul Ur Uruk Tell Leilan Kurda...
The kingsof Elam were the rulers of Elam, an ancient civilization and kingdom in south-western Iran. The earliest known Elamite dynasty was the Awan dynasty...
also a tendency for kingsof the gods to assume more and more importance, syncretistically assuming the attributes and functions of lesser divinities,...
The title King of Syria appeared in the second century BC in referring to the Seleucid kings who ruled the entirety of the region of Syria. It was also...
The Kingsof Byblos were the rulers of Byblos, the ancient Phoenician city in what is now Lebanon. Scholars have pieced together the fragmented list from...
describes the Moabite victory over an unnamed son of King Omri of Israel, an episode also noted in 2 Kings 3. The Moabite capital was Dibon. According to...
follows: The listof the Kingsof the Third Dynasty of Ur with the length of their reigns, appears on a cuneiform document listing the kingsof Ur and Isin...
The monarchs of Aleppo reigned as kings, emirs and sultans of the city and its surrounding region since the later half of the 3rd millennium BC, starting...
โโMesannepada Mari bead The lapis lazuli bead from Mari, National Museum of Damascus, Syria ("King of Ur", ๐๐๐๐ side). Transcription of the Mari bead. Initially...
Akkad. History of Mesopotamia Listofkingsof Akkad Listof Mesopotamian dynasties "King of Akkad, Kish, and Sumer" is a translation of the Akkadian phrase...
some form of independence and came to be considered as "Kings" from the time of Apil-Kin. A critical analysis of the Shakkanakku ListofMari has been...
the time of the last ruler ofMari, Zimrilim (1775-1761 BC). No direct evidence is available on the relationship of the new state and its kings with the...
(c. 1800 BC) Ipiq-Adad II (r. ~1700 BC) Kingsof the Universe in Mari: Zimri-Lim (r. 1775โ1761 BC) Kingsof the Universe in the Middle Assyrian Empire:...
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