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Nabu-ahhe-eriba (Assyrian scholar)
Nabu-ahhe-eriba (Nabû-aḫḫē-erība) was an Assyrian court scholar and astrologer who served kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal in the seventh century BC, known from letters excavated at Nineveh.
Nabu-ahhe-iddina
Nabu-ahhe-iddina, also Nabû-aḫḫē-iddina, was a Babylonian businessman of the Egibi family who served as court scribe and royal judge under Nabonidus, dying in 543 BC; his contracts survive in the family's large tablet archive.
Nabu-apla-iddina
Nabu-apla-iddina (Nabû-apla-iddina) was king of Babylon c. 887–855 BC, of the dynasty of E, best known for restoring the sun god Shamash's cult at Sippar.
Nabu-apla-iddina's restoration of Sippar
Nabu-apla-iddina's restoration of Sippar was the Babylonian king's re-establishment of the ruined cult of the sun-god Šamaš at the Ebabbar temple, commemorated on the Sun God Tablet.
Nabu-bel-shumati
Nabu-bel-shumati (Nabû-bēl-šumāti) was a Chaldean of the Bit-Yakin line, named in the Babylonian chronicle as a son of Marduk-apla-iddina, who joined Shamash-shum-ukin's revolt against Ashurbanipal and was captured in Elam.
Nabu-belu-ka''in
Nabu-belu-ka''in, also written Nabû-bēl-ka''in, was a Neo-Assyrian official who wrote to King Sargon II (reigned 721–705 BC). His single surviving letter reports a Babylonian whose household was to be deported.
Nabu-mukin-apli
Nabu-mukin-apli, also written Nabû-mukīn-apli, was a king of Babylon who reigned 36 years, from 978 to 943 BC, founding the eighth dynasty while Aramean invasions cut Babylon off from its hinterland.
Nabu-mukin-zeri
Nabu-mukin-zeri, also written Mukin-zeri, was a Chaldean tribal chief who usurped the throne of Babylon and reigned as its king from 731 to 729 BC.
Nabu-nadin-zeri
Nabu-nadin-zeri (Nabû-nādin-zēri) was king of Babylon from 733 to 732 BC, son and successor of Nabonassar; his rebellion-killing usurper ruled one month and two days.
Nabu-shallimshunu
Nabu-shallimshunu (Nabû-šallimšunu), son of Harmakki, was a Neo-Assyrian court scholar who served Sargon II as chief scribe and royal expert, attested from 714 BC and credited with the Letter to Ashur on the Musasir campaign.
Nabu-sharrussu-ukin
Nabu-sharrussu-ukin (Nabû-šarrūssu-ukîn), rendered Nebo-Sarsekim in English Bibles, was a chief eunuch under Nebuchadnezzar II, known from a 595 BC tablet recording a gold donation to the temple Esangila in Babylon.
Nabu-shum-ishkun
Nabu-shum-ishkun (Nabû-šum-iškun) was an early Chaldean king of Babylon who reigned from about 760 to 748 BC, immediately before Nabonassar, and is known chiefly from hostile texts.
Nabu-shum-libur
Nabu-shum-libur (Nabû-šuma-libbūr) was the eleventh and last king of the Second Dynasty of Isin, a Babylonian royal house, reigning about eight years around 1047–1039 BC.
Nabu-shum-lishir
Nabu-shum-lishir (Nabû-šuma-līšir) was a Babylonian prince of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the second eldest-born son of King Nabopolassar and younger brother of Nebuchadnezzar II, known from two cuneiform texts.
Nabu-shum-ukin I
Nabu-shum-ukin I, also known as Nabû-šuma-ukīn I, was king of Babylon from about 899 to 888 BC, remembered for his war and treaty with Assyria's Adad-nirari II.
Nabu-shum-ukin II
Nabu-shum-ukin II (Nabû-šuma-ukîn II) was a Babylonian usurper, a district officer who seized the throne in 732 BC after King Nabu-nadin-zeri was killed, and ruled for one month.
Nabu-shuma-ishkun
Nabu-shuma-ishkun (Nabû-šuma-iškun) was a king of Babylon who reigned from about 760 to 748 BC and is known almost entirely from a hostile Babylonian chronicle accusing him of breaking every law.
Nabu-usallim
Nabu-usallim (Nabû-ušallim) was a Babylonian, son of the Chaldean leader Merodach-Baladan, whom an Assyrian letter reports the king of Elam installed over the Sealand, declaring that the king of Assyria did not rule there.
Nabu-zer-kitti-lishir
Nabu-zer-kitti-lishir (Nabû-zēr-kitti-līšir) was a Chaldean prince of Bit-Yakin, son of the Babylonian king Marduk-apla-iddina II, who governed the Sealand and died in Elam after a failed rising against Assyria in 680/679 BC.
Nabu-zeri-lishir
Nabu-zeri-lishir, also written Nabû-zēri-līšir, was an Assyrian scholar of the 7th century BC, chief scribe of King Esarhaddon, son of the chief scribe Nabu-zuqup-kenu, and father of two scholars.
Nabu-zuqup-kenu
Nabu-zuqup-kenu, also written Nabû-zuqup-kēnu, was an Assyrian scribe at Kalhu who served Sargon II and Sennacherib, and whose scholarly tablets entered Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh.
Nabucco
Nabucco (Nabucodonosor) is Giuseppe Verdi's four-act 1841 opera to Temistocle Solera's libretto, premiered at La Scala, Milan, 9 March 1842; his third opera and first triumph, famous for the Act III chorus Va, pensiero.
Nabumetone
Nabumetone (Relafen) is a nonacidic naphthylalkanone NSAID prodrug for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, converted hepatically to active 6MNA with a 24-hour half-life, allowing once-daily dosing.
Naburimannu
Naburimannu (Nabû-rimanni, Greek Naburianos or Naburianus) is a Babylonian astronomer traditionally credited around 500 BC with founding System A of Babylonian lunar theory, though modern scholars doubt the attribution.
Nabuzana Corona
Nabuzana Corona, a 525 km corona (quasi-circular volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 8.5°S, 47°E in quadrangle V-33; IAU-named 1994 for a Ganda crop goddess, adjacent to Mukylchin corona.
Naby Keïta
Naby Laye Keïta (born 1995), Guinean central midfielder; Horoya, Istres, Salzburg, RB Leipzig, Liverpool (2018-23, 129 apps, 11 goals, Champions League and Premier League winner), then Werder Bremen and Ferencváros; captain of Guinea.
NAC Breda
NAC Breda, Dutch professional football club founded 19 September 1912 from the NOAD-ADVENDO merger in Breda; 1921 Dutch champion, 1973 KNVB Cup winner, plays at the 20,500-capacity Rat Verlegh Stadion, relegated from the Eredivisie in 2026.
NAC domain
NAC domain (IPR003441, NAC-dom): ~160-amino-acid N-terminal DNA-binding and dimerization domain of plant-specific NAC (NAM, ATAF1/2, CUC2) transcription factors; beta-fold dimer binding DNA's major groove, five subdomains A-E, regulating plant development and stress responses.
NAC Image Technology
NAC Image Technology is a Japanese manufacturer of high-speed cameras and imaging instrumentation, founded in 1958 and known for its MEMRECAM line used in crash testing and broadcast slow motion.
NACA airfoil
A NACA airfoil is a wing-section shape from numbered families developed by the U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in the 1920s–1940s, with numerical designations encoding camber and thickness.