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Ilum-ma-ili
Ilum-ma-ili, also written Ili-ma-ilu, was the founder and first king of the First Sealand dynasty, a southern Mesopotamian state that broke away from Babylon around 1720 BCE.
Ilūni
Ilūni was a ruler of the Mesopotamian kingdom of Eshnunna in the Old Babylonian period, defeated and put to death by Samsu-iluna, Hammurabi's son and successor.
IM 67118
IM 67118 is an Old Babylonian mathematical clay tablet from the Eshnunna region, kept in the National Museum of Iraq, known for an early proof of the Pythagorean rule.
Imdi-ilum
Imdi-ilum was an Old Assyrian merchant who directed his family's trading firm at Kanesh, running caravans of tin and textiles between Ashur and Anatolia from 1888 to 1876 BC.
Imenmes
Imenmes was an Egyptian official of the New Kingdom's 18th Dynasty who served as chief of Amun's flocks, overseeing the god Amun's cattle; he is known from Louvre stele C 286.
Imhotep
Imhotep (Imouthes), Third Dynasty Egyptian vizier and architect credited with Djoser's Step Pyramid at Saqqara, c. 2667–2600 BCE; later deified as god of wisdom and medicine and identified by Greeks with Asclepius.
Imi (king of Akkad)
Imi was a king of Akkad named in the Sumerian King List as one of four rivals who shared a 3-year reign after Shar-Kali-Sharri's death, around 2192–2190 BC.
Imilce
Imilce, or Himilce in the Spanish spelling, was an Iberian woman from Castulo who married Hannibal Barca in the late 3rd century BC; her life after the marriage is unknown.
Imiseba
Imiseba was an ancient Egyptian official, a priest and chief of the temple archives of the estate of Amun at Karnak in the late Twentieth Dynasty.
Immeya
Immeya was a king of Ebla in the 18th century BC, known from inscribed silver objects found in the royal funerary area at Tell Mardikh.
Imsu
Imsu (Imšu) was, according to the Assyrian King List, the seventh of seventeen early "kings who lived in tents", named between Mandaru and Harsu, with no recorded reign length.
Imta
Imta, also given as Nibia, was a Gutian ruler of the late 3rd millennium BC, named in later tradition as the first Gutian king ruling in Sumer.
Imyremeshaw
Imyremeshaw, whose throne name was Semenkhkare, was a king of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, dated to about 1759 BC and known chiefly from the Turin King List.
Inaros II
Inaros II, son of Psammetichus, was a Libyan chief who led Egypt's revolt against Persian rule in the 460s BC and was crucified in 454 BC.
Inaros II's revolt
Inaros II's revolt, also known as the Revolt of Inaros, was an Egyptian uprising against Persian rule led by the Libyan prince Inaros, c. 460-454 BC, with Athenian support.
Incest in ancient Egypt
Incest in ancient Egypt covers royal sibling marriage across pharaonic history and the distinctive commoner brother-sister marriage documented in Roman Egypt census returns, reaching inbreeding coefficients several times higher than any other recorded population.
Indabibi
Indabibi, also rendered Indabigaš, was a king of Elam in southwestern Iran who ruled briefly from 649 to 648 BC, between Tammaritu II and Humban-haltaš III.
Indattu-Inshushinak II
Indattu-Inshushinak II, also printed Idattu-Inshushinnak II, was a king of Elam of the Shimashki dynasty, son of Tan-Rukhurater, known chiefly from the Susa King List and later inscriptions.
Indibilis
Indibilis, also called Andobales, was an Iberian king of the Ilergetes who fought in the Second Punic War from 218 BC until his death in 205 BC.
Indictment of Madduwatta
The Indictment of Madduwatta is a draft letter of accusation by the Hittite king Arnuwanda I, written in the early fourteenth century BC to his former vassal Madduwatta.
Indilimma
Indilimma was a royal figure of the Syrian city of Ebla in the 17th century BC, attested through seal impressions naming him as a prince's father.
Indo-Iranian migrations into the Iranian plateau
The Indo-Iranian migrations into the Iranian plateau brought Iranian-speaking peoples from Central Asia in the late 2nd millennium BC, later underlying the Median and Persian empires.
Indus migration eastward
The Indus migration eastward was the relocation of Late Harappan settlement from the Indus plains toward the Yamuna, Ghaggar-Hakra, and Ganga plains around 1900–1300 BCE.
Indus seals in Mesopotamia
Indus seals in Mesopotamia are square Harappan stamp seals found at sites like Ur and Kish, carried west by Indus traders in the later third millennium BC.
Indus sign corpus
The Indus sign corpus, or Concordance of Indus inscriptions, indexes all known inscriptions in the undeciphered Indus script of the Indus civilization, about 2600 to 1900 BCE.
Indus Valley seals
Indus Valley seals, also called Harappan seals, are small square steatite stamp seals bearing animal motifs, most often the unicorn, with short undeciphered inscriptions, made ca. 2600–1900 BCE.
Indus weight at Ur
Cubical chert weights of the Harappan Indus civilization standard found at Ur in southern Mesopotamia, evidence of third-millennium BC trade between the Indus region, the Gulf, and Mesopotamia.
Indus weights and measures
The Indus weights and measures, also called Harappan weights, are the standardized system of cubical chert weights and linear measures used across the Indus civilization from c. 2600 to 1900 BCE.
Indus–Mesopotamia relations
Indus–Mesopotamia relations were the maritime trade network of the later third millennium BC linking the Indus civilization, called Meluhha in cuneiform texts, with Mesopotamia through Dilmun and Magan.
Ined
Ined, with the throne name Mersekhemre, was a king of the late Thirteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, known almost entirely from the Turin King List, which credits him with a reign of just over three years.