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Ir-Nanna
Ir-Nanna was a high official of the Third Dynasty of Ur who served as grand vizier (sukkal-mah) and governor of Lagash in the late 21st century BC.
Iran Stele
The Iran Stele, or Iran Stela of Tiglath-pileser III, is a fragmentary Neo-Assyrian royal stele from western Iran, composed in 737 BC during the Median campaign.
Iranzu
Iranzu was king of Mannea, a kingdom in the Zagros mountains of western Iran, during the eighth century BC, ruling as a vassal and ally of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Irarum
Irarum (Sumerian: i-ra-ru-um) is a Gutian king named in the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a two-year reign between La-erabum and Ibranum; no contemporary inscription mentions him.
Irdanene
Irdanene, also rendered Urdunene, was a king of Uruk in southern Mesopotamia during the early Old Babylonian period, around 1816–1810 BC, son and successor of An-am and known from his year names.
Irhuleni
Irhuleni, also known as Urḫilina, was a 9th-century BC king of Hamath who led a coalition against Shalmaneser III of Assyria at the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC.
Irike-Amannote
Irike-Amannote, also written Irike Amaninote, was a king of Kush in the fifth century BC who succeeded Talakhamani; his Great Inscription at Kawa records his accession by the army.
Irike-Piye-qo
Irike-Piye-qo is the name given in modern king lists to a ruler of Kush of the Napatan period, placed in the 3rd century BC as ruler number 31.
Irkab-Damu
Irkab-Damu, also known as Irkab-Damu of Ebla, was the penultimate king of Ebla in north-west Syria in the mid-24th century BC, reigning about eleven years and fathering Išar-Damu.
Irkabtum
Irkabtum (Irkab-tum) was an Amorite king of Yamhad, son and heir of Niqmi-Epuh, known from Alalakh year-name tablets; Ammitaqum of Alalakh bought a village from him.
Irsu
Irsu, also written Iarsu, is a Syrian said in the Great Harris Papyrus to have seized power in Egypt at the end of the 19th Dynasty.
Irtjet
Irtjet was a Nubian territory named in Egyptian inscriptions of the late Old Kingdom, attested from 2345 to 2181 BCE and listed alongside Wawat, Setju, Yam, and Medja.
Iry-Hor
Iry-Hor is an early Egyptian king of Dynasty 0, the phase before the First Dynasty, dated around 3000 BC and known from inscribed vessels and his tomb at Abydos.
Irynefer
Irynefer was a necropolis workman at Deir el-Medina in the Theban West Bank during the early reign of Ramesses II, known chiefly from his tomb, TT 290.
Isaiah bulla
The Isaiah bulla is a clay seal impression found in Jerusalem in 2009, inscribed with a name that may read "Isaiah the prophet", though this is disputed.
Isaurians
The Isaurians were an ancient warlike mountain people of the Taurus mountains in southern Asia Minor, repeatedly in revolt against Rome and stereotyped as brigands.
Isesi-ankh
Isesi-ankh, also rendered Isesiankh, was a prince of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty during the reign of Djedkare Isesi; his tomb was discovered at South Saqqara in 2022.
Iset (daughter of Thutmose III)
Iset was a king's daughter of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, a daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose III and likely of Queen Merytre-Hatshepsut, making her a full sibling of Amenhotep II.
Iset (priestess)
Iset, also transcribed Isis or Aset, was an Egyptian princess of the 20th Dynasty, a daughter of Ramesses VI who held the office of God's Wife of Amun.
Iset (queen)
Iset, also rendered Isis, was a secondary wife of the pharaoh Thutmose II and the mother of Thutmose III, flourishing around 1479 BC, when her son took the throne.
Iset Ta-Hemdjert
Iset Ta-Hemdjert, also Isis Ta-Hemdjert, was a Great Royal Wife of Ramesses III of Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty, buried in tomb QV 51 in the Valley of the Queens.
Isetnofret (daughter of Ramesses II)
Isetnofret, also written Isisnofret, was a royal woman of Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty, a daughter in the family of Ramesses II and his sons Merenptah and Khaemwaset.
Isetnofret (wife of Ramesses II)
Isetnofret, also written Isis-Nofret or Isetnefret, was a royal wife of Ramesses II, mother of his successor Merenptah and of Prince Khaemwaset, the High Priest of Ptah at Memphis.
Isetnofret II
Isetnofret II, also rendered Isetneferet, was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Merenptah of Egypt's 19th Dynasty, attested at Gebel Silsila and Luxor around 1213–1203 BC.
Ishar-Damu
Ishar-Damu, also written Išar-Damu, was the last king of Ebla, a Syrian city-state of the mid-third millennium BC, reigning about 35 years before its violent destruction.
Ishbi-Erra
Ishbi-Erra (Išbi-Erra) was a king of Isin in southern Mesopotamia who founded the Dynasty of Isin as the Third Dynasty of Ur collapsed, reigning roughly 2017–1985 BC.
Ishbi-Erra's secession of Isin
Ishbi-Erra's secession of Isin was the breakaway around 2017 BC of Ishbi-Erra, a commandant of the last Ur III king Ibbi-Suen, who founded an independent dynasty at Isin.
Ishchali tablets
The Ishchali tablets are cuneiform administrative and legal records excavated at Tell Ishchali, ancient Nerebtum in the Diyala region, during the Oriental Institute's 1934–1936 dig.
Ishgum-Addu
Ishgum-Addu (Išgum-Addu) was the sixth shakkanakku, or military governor, of Mari on the middle Euphrates, ruling 8 years between his brother Ishtup-Ilum and Apil-kin; he is known almost entirely from the dynastic lists.
Ishi-Addu
Ishi-Addu, also known as Išḫi-Addu, was a king of Qatna in Bronze Age Syria around 1750–1730 BC, known from his royal seal and the Mari archives.