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Ea-iluta-bani family
The Ea-ilūtu-bāni were a Babylonian family of Borsippa, modern Birs Nimrud, known from an archive of about 325 cuneiform tablets spanning the eighth to fifth centuries BC.
Egibi family
The Egibi family was an entrepreneurial, land-owning family of Babylon active for five generations from Nebuchadnezzar II into the reign of Xerxes I (sixth to early fifth centuries BC).
Ennigaldi-Nanna
Ennigaldi-Nanna was a daughter of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus and, from 547 BCE, high priestess of the moon god Sin at Ur, curating the earliest known museum.
Gimillu
Gimillu was an official of the Eanna temple of Ištar at Uruk, an oblate and rent farmer active from 539 to about 535 BC, spanning the Persian conquest of Babylonia.
Iddin-Marduk
Iddin-Marduk, also known as Idin-Marduk, was a Babylonian merchant of the Nūr-Sîn family who directed his family firm for about 60 years, from 577 to about 517 BC.
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-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-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.
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.
Nebuzaradan
Nebuzaradan (Akkadian Nabû-zēr-iddina) was a high-ranking Babylonian officer under Nebuchadnezzar II who burned Jerusalem, razed its walls, and deported much of its population in 587/586 BC.
Nergal-sharezer (rab-mag)
Nergal-sharezer, a Babylonian officer with the title rab-mag, took part in Nebuchadnezzar II's conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC and appears in the Book of Jeremiah.
Pkidha
Pkidha, also rendered Peqida, is the first Christian bishop of Adiabene, east of the Tigris, recorded only in the disputed Chronicle of Arbela, with an episcopate dated 104–114 AD.
Ugbaru
Ugbaru, also known as Gubaru, was governor of Gutium under Cyrus II who took Babylon without battle in 539 BC and governed it until his death.