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Nur-Adad
Nur-Adad, also written Nūr-Adad, was the eighth king of the Larsa dynasty in southern Iraq, reigning 16 years from 1865 to 1850 BC and known for temple building at Ur and Eridu.
Nur-ahum
Nur-ahum (Nūr-aḫum) was an early governor (ensi) of the Mesopotamian city-state of Eshnunna around 2000 BC, known almost entirely from seal inscriptions found at Tell Asmar.
Nur-ili
Nur-ili was a king of Assyria of the early Middle Assyrian period, recorded as entry no. 63 of the Assyrian King List, son of Enlil-nasir I, ruling 12 years.
Nûr-Mêr
Nûr-Mêr, also written Niwar-Mêr, was the fourth šakkanakku, or military governor, of Mari on the middle Euphrates in the late 3rd millennium BC, son of Išmaʿ-Dagan and brother-successor of Išdub-El.
Nur-Sin family
The Nur-Sin family was a private Babylonian commercial family of the late Neo-Babylonian period, known from 223 cuneiform contracts and letters dated 603 to 507 BC.
Nuwanza
Nuwanza was a Hittite commander who served King Mursili II, attested in the king's annals from year 2 to year 22, and known for defeating a Hayasean army of 700 chariots and 10,000 infantry near Kannuwara.
Nuzi texts
The Nuzi texts are thousands of Akkadian cuneiform tablets excavated at Nuzi, near Kirkuk in northern Iraq, a primary source for Hurrian private law and family customs, ca. 1475-1350 BCE.
Nuzi ware
Nuzi ware, also called Nuzu or Mitanni ware, is a painted pottery of the Mitanni period in northern Mesopotamia, with light paint on a dark slip.
Ny-Hor
Ny-Hor, also rendered Ni-Hor, is a putative ruler of late predynastic Egypt's Dynasty 0, placed before Narmer around 3200 BC and attested only by serekhs on vessels, with no tomb known.
Nynetjer
Nynetjer, also known as Ninetjer and Binothris, was the third pharaoh of Egypt's Second Dynasty, reigning about 43 to 45 years around 2780 BC and buried at Saqqara.
Obelisk ship
An obelisk ship was a specialized flat-bottomed barge built in New Kingdom Egypt to carry granite obelisks from the Aswan quarries down the Nile to Thebes.
Obodas I
Obodas I (Arabic: Ubaydah) was a Nabataean king of the early 1st century BC who defeated the Hasmonean Alexander Jannaeus and, at Cana, killed Antiochus XII.
Obodas II
Obodas II was, under the traditional chronology, a king of the Nabataeans who reigned briefly around 62 to 59 BC, between Aretas III and Malichus I.
Obodas III
Obodas III was king of the Nabataeans from about 30 BC to 9 BC, known for deflecting Roman expansion through his minister Syllaeus and for later worship as Zeus-Obodas.
Ochre Coloured Pottery culture
The Ochre Coloured Pottery culture, or OCP culture, is a Bronze Age archaeological culture of the Ganga-Yamuna Doab in northern India, defined by ill-fired pottery coated with ochre.
Oenanthe (Ptolemaic courtier)
Oenanthe (Greek Οἰνάνθη) was a Greek woman of the Ptolemaic court, mother of Agathocles and Agathoclea, killed by a mob in Alexandria in 203 BC.
Oezalces
Oezalces, also spelled Oesalces, was a king of the Massylii in eastern Numidia who succeeded his brother Gaia in 206 BC and reigned only a few months.
Oikonomos (Ptolemaic Egypt)
The oikonomos, Greek οἰκόνομος, was the nome-level financial official of Ptolemaic Egypt, overseeing tax collection, grain, and royal monopolies under the dioiketes until the office declined in the second century BC.
Olbia pedestal
The Olbia pedestal is a stone block bearing a Punic inscription, found in 1911 at ancient Olbia on Sardinia's eastern coast and deciphered by Ignazio Guidi.
Old Aramaic
Old Aramaic is the earliest attested stage of the Aramaic language, known from inscriptions of the Aramean states of Syria from about 900 to 600 BC.
Old Assyrian eponymate
The Old Assyrian eponymate, also called the limmu system, named each year after a yearly official at Assur, dating the trade archives at Kültepe from Erishum I's reign onward.
Old Assyrian limmu list
The Old Assyrian limmu list, also called the Kültepe Eponym List, is a cuneiform text naming the officials who gave their names to Assyrian years, c. 2000–1800 BCE.
Old Assyrian period
The Old Assyrian period, also known as Old Assyria, was the era when Assur was an independent city-state whose merchants traded tin and textiles to Anatolia.
Old Assyrian trade archive
The Old Assyrian trade archive, also called the Cappadocian or Kültepe tablets, is a corpus of about 23,500 cuneiform tablets found at Kültepe, Turkey, the ancient city of Kanesh.
Old Assyrian trade network
The Old Assyrian trade network was a system of Assyrian merchant colonies in central Anatolia, centered at Kanesh, selling tin and textiles for silver and gold.
Old Babylonian Gilgamesh tablets
The Old Babylonian Gilgamesh tablets are the earliest substantial Akkadian versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh, written on clay around 1900–1600 BC, chiefly the Pennsylvania and Yale tablets.
Old Babylonian house archives of Ur
The Old Babylonian house archives of Ur are private family and business cuneiform tablet collections found in houses at Ur, Iraq, from the 19th and 18th centuries BC.
Old Babylonian mathematical tablets
Old Babylonian mathematical tablets are cuneiform tablets carrying mathematics in Mesopotamia from roughly 2000 to 1600 BC, mostly written in scribal schools as table texts and problem texts.
Old Babylonian royal inscriptions
Old Babylonian royal inscriptions are building, votive, and commemorative cuneiform texts carved by kings of the early second millennium BC, including Hammurabi, on bricks, tablets, prisms, and stone objects across Babylonia.
Old Babylonian school tablets
Old Babylonian school tablets, also called edubba tablets, are clay exercise tablets made by students in Babylonian scribal schools, preserving how scribes learned cuneiform, Sumerian, and arithmetic.