Ahikar ( - c. 7th Cen)

Ahikar is the hero of a Near Eastern non-Jewish work, "The Story of Ahikar." At Uruk, an ancient city of Sumer, a Cuneiform text has been found including the name Ahuqar, suggesting that Ahikar was a historical figure around the seventh century BCE. According to the book of Tobit, Ahikar, the cupbearer of the Assyrian kings Sennacherib and Esarhaddon in Nineveh, was Tobit's nephew.