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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.
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-ishkun
Nabu-shum-ishkun (Nabû-šum-iškun) was an early Chaldean king of Babylon who reigned from about 760 to 748 BC, immediately before Nabonassar, and is known chiefly from hostile texts.
Nabu-shum-libur
Nabu-shum-libur (Nabû-šuma-libbūr) was the eleventh and last king of the Second Dynasty of Isin, a Babylonian royal house, reigning about eight years around 1047–1039 BC.
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.
Nabu-shum-ukin I
Nabu-shum-ukin I, also known as Nabû-šuma-ukīn I, was king of Babylon from about 899 to 888 BC, remembered for his war and treaty with Assyria's Adad-nirari II.
Nabu-shum-ukin II
Nabu-shum-ukin II (Nabû-šuma-ukîn II) was a Babylonian usurper, a district officer who seized the throne in 732 BC after King Nabu-nadin-zeri was killed, and ruled for one month.
Nabu-shuma-ishkun
Nabu-shuma-ishkun (Nabû-šuma-iškun) was a king of Babylon who reigned from about 760 to 748 BC and is known almost entirely from a hostile Babylonian chronicle accusing him of breaking every law.
Nabu-usallim
Nabu-usallim (Nabû-ušallim) was a Babylonian, son of the Chaldean leader Merodach-Baladan, whom an Assyrian letter reports the king of Elam installed over the Sealand, declaring that the king of Assyria did not rule there.
Nabu-zer-kitti-lishir
Nabu-zer-kitti-lishir (Nabû-zēr-kitti-līšir) was a Chaldean prince of Bit-Yakin, son of the Babylonian king Marduk-apla-iddina II, who governed the Sealand and died in Elam after a failed rising against Assyria in 680/679 BC.
Nabu-zeri-lishir
Nabu-zeri-lishir, also written Nabû-zēri-līšir, was an Assyrian scholar of the 7th century BC, chief scribe of King Esarhaddon, son of the chief scribe Nabu-zuqup-kenu, and father of two scholars.
Nabu-zuqup-kenu
Nabu-zuqup-kenu, also written Nabû-zuqup-kēnu, was an Assyrian scribe at Kalhu who served Sargon II and Sennacherib, and whose scholarly tablets entered Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh.
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.
Nadab of Israel
Nadab (Hebrew נָדָב) was the second king of the northern kingdom of Israel and son of Jeroboam I, reigning about two years before being assassinated by Baasha at Gibbethon.
Naditu
Naditu (Nadītum, LUKUR) was an Old Babylonian-period woman dedicated to gods in cities like Sippar, a legal status allowing her to buy real estate, lease land, and lend silver.
Nahash (Ammonite king)
Nahash, also known as Nahash the Ammonite, was a king of the Ammonites in the Hebrew Bible who besieged Jabesh-Gilead and was defeated by Saul.
Nahhunte-Utu
Nahhunte-Utu (Naḫḫunte-Utu) was an Elamite queen of the Shutrukid dynasty in the 12th century BC, known from royal inscriptions and one of only two politically important Middle Elamite women.
Nahirqo
Nahirqo was a kandake, or ruling queen, of the Kingdom of Kush in the middle 2nd century BC, buried in pyramid Beg. N 11 at Meroe.
Nakht (scribe of Amun)
Nakht was an ancient Egyptian scribe and astronomer of Amun who served at Karnak under Thutmose IV, known almost solely from his painted tomb TT52 at Thebes.
Nakhtefmut (Second Prophet of Amun)
Nakhtefmut was a hereditary priest of Amun-Re at Thebes, buried about 892 BC; his gilded mummy case, found at the Ramesseum in 1896, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Nakhtmin (general under Tutankhamun)
Nakhtmin, also written Min-nakht, was a general and king's scribe of Egypt's 18th Dynasty under Tutankhamun and Ay, later promoted to King's Son and proposed as Ay's heir.
Nakhtneith
Nakhtneith, also spelled Naktneith, was a royal woman of Egypt's 1st Dynasty around 3000 BC, known only from a name-stela found in King Djer's funerary complex at Umm el-Qaab, Abydos.
Nakhtpaaten
Nakhtpaaten, also called Nakht, meaning "Strong is the Aten", was a vizier of Egypt under Akhenaten in the 18th Dynasty, known from his large mansion and unfinished tomb at Amarna.
Nakhtubasterau
Nakhtubasterau was an ancient Egyptian queen consort, a wife of Pharaoh Amasis II of the 26th Dynasty, known from an inscribed ushabti found at Giza.
Nakhy
Nakhy, transliterated Nahy, was a high priest of Ptah at Memphis in ancient Egypt, known only from a rose-granite sarcophagus in the State Hermitage Museum, first published in 2019.
Namburbi
A namburbi is an Akkadian apotropaic ritual text of the first millennium BC, performed by an exorcist to avert the evil foretold by an omen, with over 140 tablets known.
Nammahani
Nammahani, also rendered Nammahni, was a ruler (ensi) of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash around 2108–2104 BC, known from royal inscriptions and the Code of Ur-Namma.