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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.
Marduk-zakir-shumi I
Marduk-zakir-shumi I (Marduk-zākir-šumi I) was a king of Babylon around 855 BC, best known for suppressing his brother Marduk-bel-usati's revolt with Assyrian help from Shalmaneser III.
Marduk-zakir-shumi II
Marduk-zākir-šumi II was a Babylonian recorded as king of Babylon for one month in 703 BC, listed after the Assyrian king Sennacherib and before Marduk-apla-iddina II's second reign.
Marduk-zer-X
Marduk-zer-X, also written Marduk-zēr-X and restored as Marduk-zēra-ibni, was the tenth and penultimate king of Babylon's Second Dynasty of Isin, ruling 12 years around 1041–1030 BC.
Mari Eponym Chronicle
The Mari Eponym Chronicle, an Old Babylonian copy found in the palace of Zimri-Lim at Mari, names each year's Assyrian eponym and records the year's main political event.
Mashda
Mashda, also known as Masda, is an early ruler of Kish known only from the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a reign of 840 years.
Mask of Warka
The Mask of Warka, also known as the Lady of Uruk, is a carved marble female face from Uruk, Iraq, made around 3100 BC and held in Baghdad.
Melam-Kishi
Melam-Kishi, also written Melem-Kish, is an early king of the First Dynasty of Kish in Sumer, known only from the Sumerian King List and unconfirmed by inscriptions.
Melem-ana
Melem-ana is a king of the first dynasty of Uruk in the Sumerian King List, placed between Meš-he the smith and Lugal-kitun with a reign of six years.
Meli-Šipak
Meli-Šipak, also written Melishipak or Meli-Šiḫu, was a Kassite king of Babylon who reigned c. 1186–1172 BC, known from Louvre kudurrus recording land grants to his children.
Merodach-Baladan's alliance with Elam
Merodach-Baladan's alliance with Elam, also called Marduk-apla-iddina II's alliance with Elam, was the Babylonian king's cooperation with Elam against Assyria from about 721 to 703 BC.
Mesag
Mesag (Me-sag) was a governor (ensi) of the southern Mesopotamian city of Umma during the Sargonic period, ca. 2340–2200 BC, known chiefly as the recipient of a Sargonic letter discussing political intrigue.
Mesannepada
Mesannepada, also written Mesannepadda, was the first king of the First Dynasty of Ur in Sumer, reigning from about 2563 to 2524 BC and also titled king of Kish.
Mesh-he
Mesh-he, also read Mes-he, is a smith assigned a 36-year reign in the Sumerian King List as a king of Uruk's First Dynasty, between Ennun-dara-ana and Melem-ana.
Mesilim
Mesilim (Mesalim) was a king of Kish in Early Dynastic Sumer, active around 2600–2550 BC, remembered chiefly as arbiter of the Lagash–Umma boundary dispute, often called the first international arbitration.
Mesilim's boundary settlement between Lagash and Umma
Mesilim, king of Kish, measured off and marked the boundary between the Sumerian city-states of Lagash and Umma around 2600 BC, erecting a stela in the contested Gu'edena district.
Meskalamdug
Meskalamdug (Mes-kalam-du), 'hero of the good land', was a ruler of the Sumerian city of Ur around 2600 BC, known from a gold helmet in the Iraq Museum.
Meskiagnunna
Meskiagnunna, also written Mes-ki'ag-nuna, was a king of the First Dynasty of Ur in Sumer, reigning in the mid-25th century BC. He succeeded Mesannepada and is known from a bowl dedication naming him "king of Ur".
Meskigal
Meskigal, also read Meskigala, was the Sumerian governor (ensi) of the southern Mesopotamian city of Adab in the time of Sargon of Akkade, and was captured in battle by Rimush.
Mesopotamian flood event
The Mesopotamian flood event, or Shuruppak flood, is an archaeological flood deposit at Shuruppak (Fara), Iraq, dated to about 2900 BC and traditionally linked to the Mesopotamian flood legend.
Michaux Stone
The Michaux Stone (Caillou Michaux) is a Babylonian kudurru, or land-grant stone, engraved under King Marduk-nadin-ahhe around 1099–1082 BC and recording a father's gift of a field to his daughter.
Middle Assyrian coronation ritual
The Middle Assyrian coronation ritual is a ritual text from Aššur, Iraq, preserved on about half of a clay tablet, describing the king's re-investiture as priest before the god Aššur.
Middle Assyrian Empire
The Middle Assyrian Empire, called māt Aššur, was the Assyrian state centered on Aššur from about 1400 to 1000 BC, rising to great-power rank under Ashur-uballit I.
Middle Assyrian Palace Decrees
The Middle Assyrian Palace Decrees, also called the Palace Edicts, are Akkadian regulations governing the Assyrian royal palace and its women, issued by nine kings and compiled around 1100 BC.
Mīs pî
Mīs pī, Akkadian for "washing of the mouth," is the Mesopotamian ritual for consecrating divine statues, in which a priest washes and animates the image as a living god.
Mišarum
Mišarum, an Akkadian word meaning 'justice', was an Old Babylonian royal edict canceling debts, remitting palace arrears, and freeing debt slaves, proclaimed by Babylonian kings from 2004 to 1595 BC.
Mona Lisa of Nimrud
The 'Mona Lisa' of Nimrud, also called the Lady of the Well, is a carved ivory head of a woman found at Nimrud, Iraq, in 1952.
Muballitat-Sherua
Muballitat-Sherua was an Assyrian princess of the mid-14th century BC, daughter of Aššur-uballit I, who married Kassite king Burnaburiaš II; her son Kara-ḫardaš's murder triggered an Assyrian invasion of Babylonia.
Mug-si
Mug-si, also written Muk-si, was a ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Adab, modern Bismaya, Iraq, during the Early Dynastic IIIb period, about 2500-2340 BC.
Mukannishum
Mukannišum was the steward, or keeper of the palace stores, at Mari under King Zimri-Lim in the 18th century BC, known from cuneiform tablets in the Mari archives.