The Roman jurist Ulpian (c.170-228) was born in Tyre, and was proud about it. In his book On Taxes, he commented upon his city's juridical status: its citizens had full Roman citizen rights ("Italian law"). The section is known from…
Ugarit (Hebrew אוּגָרִית): Bronze Age port in northern Syria, destroyed in the early twelfth century BCE, modern Ras Shamra. Cuneiform tablets illustrate the religion of ancient Canaan, i.e., the gods against which the first Jewish prophets polemicized.History
…
Ulpia Severina: name of a Roman empress, married to Aurelian (who ruled 270-275).Life
Ulpia Severina
Daughter of Ulpius Critinus
Married to Aurelian; the…
Ur: ancient Sumerian city, modern Tell el-Muqayyar.
Ur's ziggurat, partly rebuilt
Prehistory
Ur dates back to the Neolithic Ubaid Period, prior to c.3800…
Uruk King List: historiographical document from ancient Babylonia, mentioning the length of the reigns of several kings from Kandalanu (r.647-627) to the Seleucid king Seleucus II Callinicus (r.246-226/225).
…
Uthina (Greek Οὔθινα): Numidian-Roman city in Africa, modern Oudna.Uthina
Uthina, Inscription by soldiers of XIII Gemina
Along the river Miliane, upstream from…
Vaballathus: emperor of Palmyra (r.267-272).
Vaballathus
Names:
±260: Lucius Julius Aurelius Septimius Vaballathus Athenodorus
Autumn 267: rex regum, corrector totius Orientis, dux Romanorum
Summer 272:…