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Mullissu-mukannishat-Ninua
Mullissu-mukannishat-Ninua was a queen of Assyria in the ninth century BC, wife of King Ashurnasirpal II and the first queen attested in the Neo-Assyrian Period.
Murashu Archive
The Murashu Archive, also called the Murašû Archive, is a group of Babylonian legal tablets recording a family firm's business at Nippur from 454 to 404 BC.
Mushezib-Marduk
Mushezib-Marduk (Mušēzib-Marduk) was a Chaldean king of Babylon from 692 to 689 BC who allied with Elam against Sennacherib of Assyria and fought at Halule in 691 BC.
Mushkenum
Mushkenum (muškēnum) is a person's status in Old Babylonian law codes of about 2000–1600 BC, ranked between the free awīlum and the enslaved wardum, and long debated by Assyriologists.
Mutakkil-Nusku
Mutakkil-Nusku was a king of Assyria around 1133 BC who won a succession fight against his brother Ninurta-tukulti-Aššur, drove him to Babylonia, and briefly held the throne.
Nabnitu
Nabnītu, also written SIG7.ALAN = Nabnitu, is an Akkadian lexical series of the canonical Mesopotamian corpus, known chiefly from Neo-Assyrian copies excavated at Nineveh and held in the British Museum.
Nabonassar (king of Babylon)
Nabonassar, in Akkadian Nabû-nāṣir, was king of Babylon from 747 to 734 BC and a contemporary of Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria, best known as the epoch of the Era of Nabonassar.
Nabonassar Chronicle (ABC 1)
The Nabonassar Chronicle, also known as the Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 1), is a Babylonian chronicle narrating year by year how Babylon, supported by Elam, resisted Assyria from 747 to 668 BC.
Nabonidus
Nabonidus (Nabû-nāʾid), last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (556–539 BC), promoted the moon god Sin, sojourned ten years at Teima in Arabia, and was captured when Cyrus the Great took Babylon in 539 BC.
Nabonidus Chronicle
The Nabonidus Chronicle is a Babylonian cuneiform tablet in the British Museum narrating Nabonidus's reign and Cyrus the Great's conquest of Babylon in 539 BC.
Nabonidus Cylinders
Nabonidus Cylinders are inscribed clay foundation cylinders buried by Nabonidus, king of Babylon (r. 556–539 BC), in temples he restored at Sippar, Ur, and Larsa, recording digs to earlier kings' deposits.
Nabonidus' conquest of Tayma
Nabonidus' conquest of Tayma was the capture of the oasis of Tayma in northwest Arabia by Babylonian forces under King Nabonidus in 553/552 BC, opening his Arabian campaigns.
Nabonidus' decade at Tayma
Nabonidus' decade at Tayma was the roughly ten-year residence of Nabonidus, the last Neo-Babylonian king, at the north Arabian oasis of Tayma, during which Belshazzar governed Babylon.
Nabonidus's religious reform
Nabonidus's religious reform, also called the Elevation of Sin, was the policy of Nabonidus, king of Babylon 556–539 BC, promoting the moon god Sîn above Marduk.
Nabonidus's restoration of the Sin temple at Harran
Nabonidus's restoration of the Sin temple at Harran was the rebuilding of the Ehulhul, temple of the moon god Sîn, destroyed in 610 BC and rebuilt from around 552 BC.
Nabopolassar
Nabopolassar, in Akkadian Nabu-apla-usur, was king of Babylon from 626 to 605 BC and founder of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, which he built by destroying Assyria in alliance with the Medes.
Nabopolassar Chronicle
The Nabopolassar Chronicle is a Babylonian annalistic text on British Museum tablets covering Nabopolassar's reign (626–605 BC), including the fall of Nineveh in 612 BC.
Nabopolassar's building inscriptions
Nabopolassar's building inscriptions are the commemorative texts of Nabopolassar, the Neo-Babylonian king who ruled Babylon from 626 to 605 BC, recording temples, city walls, and canals.
Nabu
Nabu (Akkadian Nabû) was the Mesopotamian god of writing, scribes, wisdom, and prophecy, worshiped from the 24th century BC; his main cult center was the Ezida temple at Borsippa near Babylon.
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-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.