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Aba-Enlil-dari
Aba-Enlil-dari is a scholar named in a 165 BC Babylonian tablet as chief scholar (ummanu) of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon, whom the Arameans called Ahiqar.
Adad-shumu-usur
Adad-shumu-usur (Adad-šumu-uṣur) was a chief exorcist and scholar at the Neo-Assyrian court, son of Nabu-zuqup-kenu, whose letters and astrological reports to Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal survive in the Nineveh archives.
Akkullanu
Akkullanu was an Assyrian scholar of celestial divination and senior priest of the god Ashur who served kings Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal in the seventh century BC.
Arda-Mulissu
Arda-Mulissu, also written Arda-Muliššu and known biblically as Adrammelech, was an Assyrian prince disinherited by Sennacherib in favor of Esarhaddon, and named as his father's murderer in 681 BC.
Ashur-danin-pal
Ashur-danin-pal was an Assyrian prince, son and crown prince of King Shalmaneser III, who led a great revolt against his father in the late 820s BC.
Aššur-daʾʾinanni
Aššur-daʾʾinanni was a Neo-Assyrian eunuch official who served King Tiglath-pileser III as governor of Mazamua and gave his name to the year 733 BC, the year of the campaign against Damascus.
Balasi
Balasi was an Assyrian court astrologer and scholar of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 7th century BC, who became the personal teacher of the crown prince Ashurbanipal and is known from letters found at Nineveh.
Bēl-dān
Bēl-dān, also written Bel-dan, was an Assyrian palace herald who served twice as eponym, the official who named the year, in 820 BC under Shamshi-Adad V and 807 BC under Adad-nirari III.
Bel-Harran-beli-usur
Bel-Harran-beli-usur (Bēl-Ḫarrān-bēli-uṣur) was a Neo-Assyrian palace herald and governor of Guzana in the 8th century BC, known from a stele found at Tell Abta, west of Mosul.
Bel-ushezib
Bel-ushezib, also written Bēl-ušēzib, was a Babylonian scholar-astrologer who served the Neo-Assyrian kings Sennacherib and Esarhaddon, and is known from letters and astrological reports found at Nineveh.
Dayyan-Assur
Dayyan-Assur (Dāyān-Aššur) was commander-in-chief of the Assyrian army under King Shalmaneser III, leading campaigns to Urartu and Qarqar, and his 853 BC eponymate anchors 9th-century chronology.
Ishtar-shumu-eresh
Ishtar-shumu-eresh (Ištar-šumu-ēreš) was the chief scribe and highest royal scholar of Assyria, serving kings Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal in the 7th century BC; his tablets illuminate the library of Ashurbanipal.
Kabti-ilani-Marduk
Kabti-ilāni-Marduk was a Babylonian poet and scribe of the Dabibi family, active around the eighth century BC, whom the Poem of Erra names as its composer.
Kudurru (governor of Uruk)
Kudurru was a southern Babylonian official who served as governor, or former governor, of Uruk under the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in the 7th century BC.
Mar-Issar
Mar-Issar, also written Mār-Ištar, was a Babylonian scholar and astrologer in the service of King Esarhaddon, based in Babylon and known from 24 letters reporting celestial omens.
Marduk-shakin-shumi
Marduk-šākin-šumi was chief exorcist (rab āšipī) at the Neo-Assyrian royal court of King Esarhaddon in the 7th century BC, known from letters he sent the king in 670 BC.
Marduk-shar-usur
Marduk-šar-uṣur (Marduk-šarru-uṣur) was governor of the Assyrian province of Kurbail who served as eponym, giving his name to the year 784 BC, recorded in the eponym lists with a campaign to Ḫubuškia.
Nabu-ahhe-bullit
Nabu-ahhe-bullit, also written Nabû-aḫḫē-bulliṭ, was a Neo-Assyrian official who served as royal overseer (qēpu) of the Esagil temple in Babylon under Sargon II and Sennacherib.
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-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-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-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.
Nergal-ereš (governor of Rasappa)
Nergal-ereš, also read Pālil-ereš, was governor of the Assyrian province of Raṣappa for at least 29 years from 803 BC, taking the eponym office twice under Adad-nērārī III.
Nergal-ila'i
Nergal-ila'i, also Nergal-ilaya, was an Assyrian commander-in-chief (turtanu) and eponym of the year 808 BC under King Adad-nerari III, known from the Assyrian Eponym List and credited with one royal-type inscription.
Oracle of Nusku
The Oracle of Nusku is the modern name for an unnamed female slave who, in Esarhaddon's reign (681–669 BC), proclaimed near Harran that the god Nusku would give kingship to Sasi.
Rabshakeh of Sennacherib
The Rabshakeh of Sennacherib, or rab šaqê, was an unnamed high-ranking Assyrian court official who, per 2 Kings 18:17, addressed Jerusalem's people from its walls in Hebrew in 701 BC.