Yaṯiʿe (

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: ; ), also spelled Iatie, was a queen of the Nomadic Arab tribes of

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who ruled in the 8th century BC, circa 730 BC. Yatie sent her forces, headed by her brother Basqanu ( ''Bâsqânu''), to aid Merodach-Baladan in his bid to hold on to

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.Boardman, 1924, p. 34.Leslie, 1999, p. 249. Merodach-Baladan, the leader of the

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ns, was also supported by an army from

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and together these faced the Assyrian forces of

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on his first campaign in 703 BC. The events of the battle are recorded in the annals of Sennacherib which mention Yatie, "queen of the Arabs", and the capture of her brother Baasqanu in the battle. Israel Eph'al writes that this is the first mention in Assyrian documents of

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as an ethnic element in

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.Eph'al, 1982, pp. 112-113. Yatie's predecessor was Samsi and she was succeeded by queen Te'el-hunu.

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