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Nezool
Nezool, also Nezana, was a king of Aksum in the Horn of Africa who ruled in the later 5th century AD and is known only from his coinage.
Ni-Neith
Ni-Neith is the name Egyptologists give to a putative ruler of Dynasty 0, predating Egypt's First Dynasty, known only from a single inscription at Helwan.
Niankhba
Niankhba was a chief justice and vizier of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty who served King Unas around 2350 BC and was buried in a mastaba at Saqqara.
Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep
Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were ancient Egyptian royal manicurists of the Fifth Dynasty, buried together at Saqqara in a shared tomb with reliefs of them embracing.
Nibe
Nibe (Nibê) was a claimant to the throne of the ancient kingdom of Ellipi in western Iran, defeated by the Assyrian king Sargon II around 713 BC.
Nicanor (Ptolemaic general)
Nicanor was a friend and general of Ptolemy I of Egypt, sent in 320 BC to conquer Syria and Phoenicia, where he quickly took the governor Laomedon prisoner.
Niğde stelae
The Niğde stelae, also known as the Niğde inscriptions, are Hieroglyphic Luwian monuments from Iron Age Niğde, Turkey, erected for rulers of Nahitiya and Tuwana.
Nikaiankh I
Nikaiankh I, also written Nika-ankh, was a local official of Tehne in Upper Egypt during the early Fifth Dynasty, around 2450 BC, serving as Keeper of the King's Property.
Nikaiankh II
Nikaiankh II, also written Nika-ankh II, was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian provincial official whose rock-cut tomb no. 15 at Tehna, one of the Fraser tombs, is noted for its large engaged statues.
Nikalmati
Nikalmati, also known as Nikkal-mati, was a Hittite great queen, or Tawananna, of the Middle Hittite kingdom, wife of King Tudhaliya and mother of the later great queen Ašmunikal.
Nikara
Nikara, also rendered Nikare, was the ninth pharaoh of Egypt's Eighth Dynasty during the First Intermediate Period, around the 22nd century BC, known only from the Abydos King List.
Nikare (Dynasty 8)
Nikare, also Nikare I, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Memphite Seventh/Eighth Dynasty during the early First Intermediate Period, known only from the Abydos King List.
Nikare II
Nikare II is a poorly attested pharaoh of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, assigned by some reconstructions to the Theban Sixteenth Dynasty, though his membership is disputed.
Nile Level Texts
The Nile Level Texts, also called the Nile Level Records, are inscriptions on the Karnak quay recording annual Nile flood heights across most of the Third Intermediate Period.
Nimaathap
Nimaathap, also rendered Nimaethap, was an Egyptian royal woman of the late Second and early Third Dynasties, probably the wife of King Khasekhemwy and mother of King Djoser.
Nimaathap II
Nimaathap II, also known as Nimaethap II, is the conventional designation for a queen consort of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty in the Old Kingdom, known only from a roster of royal women.
Nimlot (son of Shoshenq I)
Nimlot, also known as Nimlot B or Nemareth, was a prince of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty, third son of King Shoshenq I and commander of the army at Herakleopolis around 940 BC.
Nimlot A
Nimlot A was a Libyan Great Chief of the Ma in late Twenty-first Dynasty Egypt and the father of Shoshenq I, founder of the Twenty-second Dynasty.
Nimlot C
Nimlot C, son of pharaoh Osorkon II and queen Djedmoutesankh, served as High Priest of Amun at Thebes and ruler of Herakleopolis in the early 22nd Dynasty.
Nimlot of Hermopolis
Nimlot of Hermopolis, also rendered Namlot, was a local king of Hermopolis in Middle Egypt in the late eighth century BC, who resisted and then submitted to Piye.
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.
Nine Saints
The Nine Saints were foreign missionary monks who came to the Kingdom of Aksum around 480, credited with the second Christianization of Ethiopia and translating the Bible into Ge'ez.
Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt (c. 1295–1186 BC), second New Kingdom dynasty, also called the Ramesside dynasty. Founded by Ramesses I under Horemheb; Sety I reconquered the Levant, Ramesses II fought Kadesh and signed the first known peace treaty (1258 BCE), Merenptah repelled the Sea Peoples before decline.