ANE Character List for Reenacting Project, REL 228, spring 2005.        RJDKnauth

Culture/Period                                    Character (major figures, gods)

Sumerian Early Dynastic                         Enmerkar

  Eannatum

                                                              Lugalbanda                 Enlil, Ea, Enki

*Dumuzi                       *Inanna / Ishtar

*Gilgamesh                  

  UruKAgina / Uruinimgina

                                                              Lugalzagesi                

Akkadian                                             *Sargon                      

                                                            *Naram-Sin

Gutian                                                    Gudea

                                                              Utu-Hegal                  *Utu / Shamash (sun)

Ur III                                                   *Ur-Nammu                 *Nana / Sin (moon)

                                                            *Shulgi

                                                              Ludingira (poet)

                                                            *Ibbi-Sin

Isin/Larsa                                               Ishbi-Erra

                                                              Ishme-Dagan

                                                              Lipit-Ishtar / Gungunum

                                                              Rim-Sin

Old Assyrian                                          Shamshi-Adad I         Ashur

Mari                                                       Zimri-Lim

Old Babylonian                         *Hammurabi                 *Marduk

Hittite                                                   *Hattusili I, III    Nabu 

                                                            *Telepinu

                                                            *Mursili II

                                                            *Suppiluliuma

Hurrian                                       Shattiwaza

Kassite                                                   Kurigalzu II

Middle Assyrian                                     Tukulti-Ninurta

Neo-Assyrian                                         Ashur-Nasirpal

                                                            *Shalmaneser III

                                                            *Tiglath-Pileser III

                                                            *Sargon

                                                            *Sennacherib

                                                            *Essarhaddon

                                                            *Ashurbanipal

Neo-Babylonian                                     Nabopolassar

                                                            *Nebuchadnezar

                                                            *Nabonidus

Persian / Achaemenid                           *Cyrus

                                                              Cambyses

                                                            *Darius I, II

                                                              Xerxes

                                                              Artaxerxes

Egyptian Early Dynastic                        *Narmer / Menes

Old Kingdom                                       *Djoser / Zoser

                                                              Imhotep                                  *Ptah

                                                            *Snefru                                    *Horus

                                                              Khufu / Cheops                      *Osiris

                                                              Khafre                                    *Re / Ra

                                                              Menkaure                                 Hathor

Middle Kingdom                                  *Mentuhotep II                          Sekhmet

                                                            *Amunemhet /Ammenemes I   

                                                              Senusert / Senwosret / Sesostris

                                                              Sobeknefru                            

New Kingdom                                        Kamose, Ahmose                  

                                                            *Hatshepsut                             *Amun

*Thutmose III                             Thoth

  Amunhotep / Amenophis           Anubis

  Tiye

*Akhenaten

*Nefertiti

  Tutankhamun

*Horemheb

*Rameses II

  Merneptah

  Rameses III

Third Intermediate                                  Sheshonq

  Piye / Piankhy

Saite                                                       Psammetichus / Psamtik

*Necho / Neko II

                                                              Apries

                                                              Amasis