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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.

Ninth Dynasty of Egypt

The Ninth Dynasty of Egypt, or 9th Dynasty, was a line of kings who ruled Lower Egypt from Herakleopolis during the First Intermediate Period, until defeated by Mentuhotep II.

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 Dilmun texts

The Nippur Dilmun texts are Kassite-period cuneiform letters and tablets from Nippur in southern Iraq, chiefly two mid-14th-century BC letters by Ilī-ippašra, governor of Dilmun, to Nippur's governor.

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.

Nippur Old Babylonian tablets

The Nippur Old Babylonian tablets are cuneiform tablets excavated at Nippur in southern Iraq, dated roughly 2000 to 1600 BC, including Sumerian literature, school exercises, and legal contracts.

Nippur tablet archive

The Nippur tablet archive is a body of Ur III administrative cuneiform tablets excavated at Nippur by the University of Pennsylvania between 1889 and 1900.

Niqmaddu II of Ugarit

Niqmaddu II, also written Niqmadu II, was king of Ugarit, a coastal kingdom in northern Syria, in the mid-14th century BC, becoming a treaty vassal of Suppiluliuma I.

Niqmaddu III of Ugarit

Niqmaddu III, also written Niqmadu III, was a king of Ugarit, a Bronze Age Syrian port kingdom on the Mediterranean coast, reigning c. 1225–1215 BC as a Hittite vassal.

Niqmepa of Alalakh

Niqmepa, King of Mukish, was a Bronze Age king of Alalakh in modern Turkey, son and successor of Idrimi, known from the Level IV archive tablets.

Niqmepa of Ugarit

Niqmepa, also known as Niqmepuh, was king of Ugarit from about 1313 to 1260 BC, placed on the throne by the Hittite king Mursili II after his brother Arhalba was removed.

Niqmi-Epuh

Niqmi-Epuh, also written Niqmepuh, was a king of Yamhad, the Amorite kingdom centered on Aleppo, ruling in the first half of the second millennium BC.

Nişantaşı inscription

The Nişantaşı inscription is a lengthy Hieroglyphic Luwian rock inscription carved on the Nişantepe outcrop at Hattusa, Turkey, under the last Hittite king, Suppiluliuma II, and is the longest imperial Hittite hieroglyphic document known.

Nitocris

Nitocris, or Nitiqret, is a queen whom classical tradition places at the end of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, around 2184–2181 BCE, remembered for drowning her brother's killers at a banquet.

Nitocris I (God's Wife of Amun)

Nitocris I, also known as Neitiqert, was a God's Wife of Amun at Thebes, daughter of Psammetichus I, who held the office for almost 70 years from 656 BC.

Nitocris II (Divine Adoratrice of Amun)

Nitocris II was a Saite princess, daughter of Amasis II, adopted as heir to the God's Wife of Amun at Thebes before the Persian conquest of 525 BC.

Niya (kingdom)

Niya, also written Nii, was a Late Bronze Age kingdom in the middle Orontes valley of western Syria, known almost entirely from Hittite cuneiform texts.

Noba migration into Lower Nubia

The Noba migration into Lower Nubia was the settling of Nubian-speaking Noba on the Nile in the 4th and 5th centuries AD, ending Meroitic rule.

Nobatia

Nobatia, also Nobadia, was the northernmost of the three Nubian kingdoms after the fall of Meroe, ruling Lower Nubia from the First to the Third Cataract from about 410 AD.

Nodjmet

Nodjmet, also written Nedjmet, was a high-ranking Theban noblewoman of the late Twentieth Dynasty, traditionally the wife of Herihor, the High Priest of Amun who took royal titles.

Nofret (wife of Rahotep)

Nofret, also Neferet, was an Egyptian noblewoman of Dynasty 4, wife of prince Rahotep, known from their famous painted limestone statues found at Meidum in 1871.

Nofret II

Nofret II was a royal woman of Egypt's 12th Dynasty under Senusret II, known from statues at Tanis; whether she was the king's wife or daughter is disputed.

Nomarch

A nomarch (haty-a) was the governor of a nome, one of ancient Egypt's provincial districts, whose office peaked from about 2160 to 1850 BCE before Senwosret III curtailed it.