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Nome (Egypt)
A nome, called sepat in Egyptian, was the basic provincial division of ancient Egypt, traditionally 42 in number and used from the 2nd Dynasty into the Roman period.
Nora Stone
The Nora Stone, also called the Nora inscription or Nora stele, is a sandstone stele bearing a Phoenician inscription found at Pula near ancient Nora, Sardinia, in 1773.
Nu (mythology)
Nu, also Nun (Egyptian nenu, nuu), is the ancient Egyptian personification of the primeval waters of chaos, father of the gods, member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad paired with Naunet, from whose waters the primeval mound and Atum rose.
Nuabu
Nuabu is an early Assyrian king named on the Assyrian King List, twelfth of seventeen "kings who lived in tents" between Zuabu and Abazu; no contemporary records of him exist.
Nubayrah Stele
The Nubayrah Stele, also called the Stele of Nobaireh, is an Egyptian stele bearing a copy of the Decree of Memphis of Ptolemy V from 196 BC.
Nubemhat
Nubemhat was a queen of the Theban Seventeenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, Great Royal Wife of King Sobekemsaf I, known from a stela from Dendera and a statue from Kawa.
Nubemtekh
Nubemtekh, rendered Noubemtekh in Latin script, was a princess of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, known only from inscribed stone vessels in the Louvre and Turin, dated about 1425 to 1349 BC.
Nubhetepti
Nubhetepti was a Great Royal Wife of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty, known from scarab seals and probably the wife of King Hor Awibre, reigning around 1777–1775 BC.
Nubhetepti-khered
Nubhetepti-khered, also written Noub-Hotep-khered, was an ancient Egyptian king's daughter of the early Thirteenth Dynasty, probably a daughter of King Hor, found intact at Dahshur in 1894.
Nubian campaign of Hatshepsut
The Nubian campaigns of Hatshepsut were military expeditions sent by the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut against Nubia in the 1470s and 1460s BCE, during the early 18th Dynasty.
Nubian campaign of Kamose
The Nubian campaign of Kamose was a military expedition led southward by the Theban king Kamose against the kingdom of Kush, expelling Kerma occupiers from Lower Nubia around 1550 BC.
Nubian campaign of Merenre
The Nubian campaign of Merenre was the Sixth Dynasty king Merenre's personal visit to Nubia's First Cataract around 2300 BC, recorded in three rock inscriptions near Aswan.
Nubian campaign of Piankh
The Nubian campaign of Piankh was an expedition into Nubia led by Piankh, High Priest of Amun at Thebes, in year 10 of the Whm Mswt of Ramesses XI.
Nubian campaign of Sneferu
The Nubian campaign of Sneferu was an Egyptian raid into Nubia by the Fourth Dynasty's founding king, recorded on the Palermo Stone with 7,000 captives and 200,000 livestock.
Nubian campaign of Thutmose I
The Nubian campaign of Thutmose I was an Egyptian military expedition early in his reign (ca. 1504–1492 BC) against Kush, sacking Kerma and reaching Kurgus.
Nubian campaigns of Ahmose I
The Nubian campaigns of Ahmose I were the early New Kingdom operations by which Ahmose I, first king of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, re-established Egyptian control over Lower Nubia.
Nubian campaigns of Mentuhotep II
The Nubian campaigns of Mentuhotep II were military expeditions by the 11th Dynasty king against Wawat, reaching Buhen and recorded at Korosko in his year 29.
Nubian campaigns of Pepi I
The Nubian campaigns of Pepi I were Egyptian military expeditions into Lower Nubia under Pepi I, third king of the 6th Dynasty, around 2345–2181 BCE.
Nubian campaigns of Senusret I
The Nubian campaigns of Senusret I were Egyptian expeditions into Lower Nubia, conquering it as far as the Second Cataract by the king's year 18.
Nubian campaigns of Thutmose III
The Nubian campaigns of Thutmose III were Egyptian expeditions that completed the conquest of Upper Nubia during his reign, extending Egyptian rule to the Fourth Cataract of the Nile.
Nubian Mercenaries of Gebelein
The Nubian Mercenaries of Gebelein, also known as the Gebelein Nubians, were Nubian C-Group soldiers in Upper Egypt during the First Intermediate Period, known from archer grave stelae.
Nubkheperre Intef
Nubkheperre Intef, also known as Intef Nubkheperre, was an Egyptian king of the Seventeenth Dynasty who reigned at Thebes around 1560 BC, during the Second Intermediate Period.
Nubkhesbed
Nubkhesbed was an ancient Egyptian queen of the Twentieth Dynasty, the Great Royal Wife of Ramesses VI and mother of Pharaoh Ramesses VII, around 1140 BC.
Nubwenet
Nubwenet, also written Nebwenet, was a queen consort of Pepi I of Egypt's 6th Dynasty, buried in a small pyramid beside the king's at South Saqqara.
Nuhašše
Nuhašše was a land, or group of lands, in northwestern Syria east of the Orontes between Aleppo and Hama, whose kings appear in the Amarna letters and Hittite treaties.
Numidia
Numidia, also known as the Numidian Kingdom, was an ancient kingdom in North Africa, unified under King Massinissa around 202 BCE and closely allied with Rome.
Numidian cavalry
Numidian cavalry was the light cavalry of the Numidian kingdoms of North Africa in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, mounted on small horses and armed with javelins.
Numidian coinage
Numidian coinage is the money struck by the kings of Numidia in present-day Algeria from the late 3rd to the mid-1st century BC, beginning with Syphax and Masinissa.
Numidian language
The Numidian language, also called Old Libyan or Libyan, is the ancient Berber language of North Africa, known from over 1,500 inscriptions dating from the first millennium BC.
Numidians
The Numidians were the Berber people of the North African kingdoms of the Massylii and Masaesyli, which united into Numidia around 202 BCE, famed for their light cavalry.