The Empire of the Amorites

Adad Akkad Amarna letters Amorite names Amurru ancient appears Arabia Arabic Aramaean Aramaic Ashir Ashirta Ashur Asia Assyrian Aziru Babylon Babylonian language belonging Biblical called Cappadocian Cassite period centre century Chapter civilization conquered cuneiform Dagan Damascus district doubtless earliest early period Egypt Egyptian Elam Elamitic elements Enkidu Enlil Erech Euphrates evidence excavations fact Gilgamesh goddess gods Habiri Hammurabi Hana Harran Hebrew Hittites identified ideogram influence inscriptions Ishtar Israel Kadesh king kingdom known land Larsa later Lebanon lonia Marduk Mari Mash mentioned Merra migration millennium B. C. Mitanni mountain Naharin Nergal Nin-IB Nippur Old Testament origin Palestine perhaps personal names Phoenician present probably pronunciation Ramses reasonable referred regarded region represented rulers Sargon Sayce scholars scribes script seal seems Semitic names Shamash Shamshi-Adad Suhi Sumerian Syllabary Syria tablets temple texts Thutmose Thutmose III tion UMBS West Semitic worship writer Yale