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Muttines
Muttines, also spelled Mottones or Mutines, was a Libyphoenician cavalry officer from Hippacra who commanded Carthage's Numidian horse in Sicily during the Second Punic War and defected to Rome, delivering Agrigentum to the Romans.
Muwatalli I
Muwatalli I, also written Muwattalli I, was a poorly attested Hittite king of the late Middle Kingdom, killed in a palace coup by his officials.
Muwatalli II
Muwatalli II was a king of the Hittite Empire who reigned from about 1295 to 1272 BC, fought Ramesses II at Kadesh in 1274 BC, and moved the capital to Tarhuntassa.
Muwatalli of Gurgum
Muwatalli, also written Muwattalli II and rendered Mutalli in Assyrian sources, was a ninth-century BC king of Gurgum, a Neo-Hittite kingdom at modern Kahramanmaraş, Turkey.
Myrmidon of Athens
Myrmidon of Athens was an Athenian general serving Ptolemy I of Egypt, known from Diodorus for leading 10,000 men to Cyprus in 315 BC and aiding Asander in Caria against Antigonus.
Mysians
The Mysians (Greek Μυσοί, Mysoi) were a people of northwest Anatolia dwelling in Mysia between the Propontis, the Aegean, and Lydia, attested from the Iliad to Roman times.
Nabataean Aramaic
Nabataean Aramaic is the Aramaic variety of the Nabataeans, an Arab kingdom ruled from Petra, known for about 6,000 inscriptions and as the ancestor of the Arabic script.
Nabdalsa
Nabdalsa was a wealthy Numidian noble and general of King Jugurtha who joined Bomilcar's failed conspiracy against the king in 108 BC, during the Jugurthine War.
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 conquest of Dedan
Nabonidus's conquest of Dedan was the capture of the oasis kingdom of Dadān (modern al-ʿUlā in Saudi Arabia) by Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, around 553 BC.
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.