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Nebuchadnezzar II's campaign against Egypt (568/567 BC)
Nebuchadnezzar II's campaign against Egypt was a Babylonian invasion in 568/567 BC, in Nebuchadnezzar's thirty-seventh year, against pharaoh Amasis, known from tablet BM 33041; Egypt remained independent.
Nebuchadnezzar II's campaigns in the Levant
Nebuchadnezzar II's campaigns in the Levant, also called the Babylonian campaigns in Syria-Palestine, were Babylonian operations from about 605 to 582 BC that replaced Egyptian influence with Babylonian domination.
Nebuchadnezzar III
Nebuchadnezzar III, born Nidintu-Bēl, was a Babylonian official who rebelled against Darius I, claiming to be a son of Nabonidus, and ruled Babylonia from October to December 522 BCE.
Nebuchadnezzar IV
Nebuchadnezzar IV, whose personal name was Arakha, was a rebel king of Babylonia in 521 BC who claimed to be a son of Nabonidus; Darius I's forces defeated and executed him.
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.
Neo-Assyrian Empire
The Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–609 BCE) was the largest imperial polity of the ancient Near East before Achaemenid Persia, spanning over one million square kilometres under kings such as Sargon II, Sennacherib, and Ashurbanipal, known for relay roads, mass deportation, and the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE.
Neo-Babylonian Empire
Neo-Babylonian Empire (néo-babylonien), 626–539 BC, last native Mesopotamian empire with capital at Babylon; founded by Nabopolassar, expanded by Nebuchadnezzar II, ended by Cyrus the Great of Persia.
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.
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.
Nergal-ushezib
Nergal-ushezib, also written Nergal-ušēzib, was king of Babylon in 693 BC, placed on the throne by the Elamite king Hallušu-Inšušinak and taken prisoner by Assyria after a reign of one year and six months.
Neriglissar
Neriglissar, also known as Nergal-shar-usur or Nergalsharezer, was the fourth king of the Neo-Babylonian dynasty, reigning from 559 to 556 BC after seizing the throne by killing Amēl-Marduk.
Nimrud Ivories
The Nimrud ivories, also called the Kalhu ivories, are carved ivory plaques and furniture panels excavated at Nimrud, Iraq, mostly imported from Phoenician and Syrian workshops.
Nimrud lens
The Nimrud lens, also called the Layard lens, is a polished rock crystal object unearthed by Austen Henry Layard at Nimrud, Iraq, in 1850 and dated 750–710 BC.
Nimrud Letters
The Nimrud Letters are an archive of over 300 cuneiform tablets of Neo-Assyrian royal correspondence, chiefly of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II, excavated at Nimrud, Iraq, in 1952.
Nimrud Prism
The Nimrud Prism of Esarhaddon is a six-sided clay prism whose cuneiform text records the Neo-Assyrian king Esarhaddon's palace construction at Nimrud in the 7th century BCE.
Nimrud Slab of Ashurnasirpal II
The Nimrud Slab of Ashurnasirpal II is a carved stone slab bearing a royal display inscription of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, found at Nimrud, Iraq.
Nimrud Tablet K.3751
Nimrud Tablet K.3751 is a clay tablet from Nimrud, Iraq, inscribed with a summary inscription of King Tiglath-pileser III (745–727 BC), the best preserved of its kind.
Nimrud Wine Lists
The Nimrud Wine Lists, also called the Kalhu wine lists, are Neo-Assyrian administrative tablets from Fort Shalmaneser at Nimrud, Iraq, recording wine rations in the 8th century BC.
Nin-kisalsi
Nin-kisalsi was a governor (ensi) of the Sumerian city-state of Adab, in modern Iraq, around 2550 BC, known from an inscription naming Mesilim of Kish and possibly the city's earliest attested ruler.
Ninšatapada
Ninšatapada was an Old Babylonian princess of Uruk, a woman scribe and priestess of the divine Meslamtaea at Durum, daughter of King Sîn-kāšid, who flourished around 1800 BCE.
Ninurta
Ninurta, Mesopotamian god of war and agriculture, son of Enlil, wielder of the mace Sharur, slayer of Anzu and Asag in Lugal-e and the Anzu epic, worshipped at Nippur and Nimrud.
Ninurta-apal-Ekur
Ninurta-apal-Ekur, also printed Ninurta-apil-Ekur, was a king of Assyria in the late 12th century BC, a descendant of Eriba-Adad I who seized the throne after returning from Karduniaš.
Ninurta-apla-X
Ninurta-apla-X, also written Ninurta-apla-…, is the conventional name of a poorly attested king of Babylon, conjecturally placed around 800 BC in the post-Kassite mixed dynasties.
Ninurta-kudurri-usur I
Ninurta-kudurri-usur I was a king of Babylon of the Bazi dynasty, its second of three kings, reigning around 987–985 BC; he is attested by a royal inscription from Uruk.
Ninurta-kudurri-usur II
Ninurta-kudurri-usur II was the second king of the Dynasty of E of Babylon, reigning about 8 months and 12 days around 943 BC, succeeding Nabû-mukīn-apli and followed by his brother Mār-bīti-aḫḫē-idinna.
Ninurta-nadin-shumi
Ninurta-nadin-shumi was the third king of the Second Dynasty of Isin and ruler of Babylon c. 1127–1122 BC, the father and immediate predecessor of Nebuchadnezzar I, reigning after the fall of the Kassite dynasty.
Ninurta-Pāqidāt's Dog Bite
Ninurta-Pāqidāt's Dog Bite is a comic Akkadian tale on a Neo-Babylonian tablet from Uruk, in which a man healed of a dog bite is driven from Nippur.
Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur
Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur, also known as Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur, was a Middle Assyrian king, the 84th on the Assyrian King List, who reigned briefly around 1132 BC before his brother Mutakkil-Nusku drove him to Babylonia.
Nippur Kassite archive
The Nippur Kassite archive is a hoard of about 12,000 cuneiform tablets from Nippur, southern Iraq, dated to the Kassite dynasty, roughly 1360 to 1220 BCE.