Hanunu

Tiglath-Pileser III trampling an enemy king, sometimes identified as Hanunu, in a relief from his palace in Kalhu. The conquest of Gaza, among other nations, is described in the surrounding inscriptions.

Hanunu (Philistine: đ€‡đ€đ€ *កanĆ«n; Akkadian: đ’„©đ’€€đ’‰Ąđ’Œ‘đ’‰Ą áž«a-a-nu-Ăș-nu),[1] sometimes called Hanno,[2] was the Philistine king of Gaza during the 8th century BC. During Hanunu's reign, much of the Levant, including Philistia, was controlled by the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

  1. ^ Hanunu (KING OF GAZA) Archived 2022-11-06 at the Wayback Machine, Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus
  2. ^ Mogens Herman Hansen, ed. (2000). A Comparative Study of Thirty City-state Cultures: An Investigation. Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. pp. 136–. ISBN 9788778761774. OCLC 1000873699.