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Ishma-Dagan
Ishma-Dagan (Išma-Dagan) was the third shakkanakku, or military governor, of Mari in northern Mesopotamia, ruling for 45 years, dated 2199–2154 BC; he was succeeded by his sons Nur-Mer and Ishtup-Ilum.
Ishmael son of Nethaniah
Ishmael son of Nethaniah was a Judahite of royal descent who, after Jerusalem fell in 586 BC, assassinated Gedaliah, the governor at Mizpah, and fled to Ammon.
Ishme-Dagan (king of Isin)
Ishme-Dagan was the fourth king of the First Dynasty of Isin, who styled himself king of Sumer and Akkad, was worshipped as a god, and reigned about twenty years.
Ishme-Dagan I
Išme-Dagan I, elder son of Shamshi-Adad I, was king of Ekallatum and then Assyria from about 1775 BC, warring against Eshnunna, the Turukkeans, and Hammurabi of Babylon.
Ishme-Dagan II
Išme-Dagan II was a king of Assyria around 1600 BC, son of Šamši-Adad II, known only from the Assyrian King List, which records a reign of 16 years.
Ishpabara
Ishpabara, also spelled Išpabara, was king of Ellipi in the central Zagros mountains, placed on the throne by Sargon II and defeated by Sennacherib in 702 BC.
Ishpakai
Ishpakai, also Išpakai, was a Scythian leader in Neo-Assyrian records of Esarhaddon's reign, defeated and killed around 675 BCE after joining the Manneans against Assyria; his successor was Bartatua.
Ishpuini
Ishpuini, also spelled Išpuini or Ispuini, was king of Urartu from about 830 to 810 BC, son of Sarduri I and father of Menua, and the first Urartian king to commission inscriptions in the Urartian language.
Ishqi-Mari
Ishqi-Mari (Išqi-Mari, formerly read Lamgi-Mari) was a king of Mari's second kingdom who reigned c. 2350–2330 BC and was the last king before the city's destruction, attributed to Sargon of Akkad.
Ishtar Gate
Ishtar Gate: main northern gate of Babylon, built of glazed brick by Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 BC), decorated with bulls, dragons, and lions; excavated 1899–1917 and reconstructed in Berlin's Pergamonmuseum in 1930.
Ishtar-shumu-eresh
Ishtar-shumu-eresh (Ištar-šumu-ēreš) was the chief scribe and highest royal scholar of Assyria, serving kings Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal in the 7th century BC; his tablets illuminate the library of Ashurbanipal.
Ishtup-Ilum
Ishtup-Ilum (Ištup-Ilum) was a shakkanakku, a military governor of Mari on the middle Euphrates, ruling c. 2147–2136 BCE; he is known from a diorite statue found at Mari in 1936.
Ishtup-Ishar
Ishtup-Ishar, also known as Ishtup-Shar, was a king of the second dynasty of Mari in Syria, attested only in the Ebla archives' Enna-Dagan Letter between Saumu and Iblul-Il.
Ishuwa
Ishuwa, also written Isuwa, was a small kingdom on the Upper Euphrates around modern Elazığ, attested in Hittite texts from the late 15th to late 13th century BC.
Isi-Sumuabi
Isi-Sumuabi, also Iši-Sumu-abi, was an early king of the land of Ḫana on the Middle Euphrates, a contemporary of the Babylonian king Samsu-iluna in the 18th century BC.
Isidorus (Egyptian rebel)
Isidorus was an Egyptian priest who led the Boukoloi revolt against Roman rule in Egypt, generally dated to AD 172, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius.
Isin-Larsa period
The Isin-Larsa period is the era of southern Mesopotamian history, ca. 2004–1763 BC, when the rival dynasties of Isin and Larsa disputed control of Sumer until Hammurabi of Babylon captured Larsa.
Iškar Zaqīqu
Iškar Zaqīqu, also known as Iskar Zaqiqu, is an Akkadian compendium of dream interpretation assembled in the Neo-Assyrian period and preserved in King Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh.
İspeçkür stele
The İspeçkür stele, or Ispekchur stele, is a four-sided limestone monument with reliefs and a hieroglyphic Luwian inscription, erected by the Malatya ruler Arnuwanti II.
Isputahsu
Isputahsu, also written Išputahšu, was the earliest known king of Kizzuwatna, a Late Bronze Age kingdom in southeastern Anatolia, ruling in the late 16th century BC.
Israel of Aksum
Israel of Aksum was a king of the Aksumite kingdom in what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea, known essentially only from his coinage, dated to the 570s.
Israelite highland settlement
Israelite highland settlement was the Iron Age I founding of hundreds of small villages in the central hill country of Canaan, roughly 1200 to 1000 BC.
Israelite–Aramean War
The Israelite–Aramean War is the conventional label for a series of 9th-century BC conflicts between Israel and Aram-Damascus, shaped by Assyrian pressure on both kingdoms.
Istanbul 2461
Istanbul 2461 is a small clay tablet from Nippur, Iraq, inscribed with a Sumerian love song to King Shu-Suen of Ur, often called the world's oldest known love poem.
Ištuanda
Ištuanda was a Neo-Hittite kingdom in the Tabal region of south-central Anatolia, attested only in Assyrian tribute lists of Tiglath-pileser III, 738 and 732 BC.
Ita (princess)
Ita was a princess of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, usually identified as a daughter of Amenemhat II, whose intact burial beside his Dahshur pyramid was found in 1895.
Itakayet
Itakayet, also written Itakayt, was a princess of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, probably a daughter of Senusret II, buried in a subsidiary pyramid of Senusret III at Dahshur.
Itaweret
Itaweret, also written Ita-weret, was a royal woman of Egypt's 12th Dynasty, probably a daughter of Amenemhat II. Her intact tomb beside the king's pyramid at Dahshur was found in 1894.
Iter-pisha
Iter-piša, also written Iter-pisa, was a king of the First Dynasty of Isin in southern Mesopotamia, ruling about 1835–1832 BC as the dynasty's 12th ruler, between Zambiya and Urdukuga.
Itet
Itet, also written Atet, was an Egyptian noblewoman of the early 4th Dynasty, wife of the high official Nefermaat, whose joint mastaba at Meidum yielded the Meidum Geese painting.