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Lycian inscriptions
The Lycian inscriptions are a corpus of about 200 texts in Lycian, an Anatolian language of ancient Lycia in southwest Turkey, written mostly during the 5th and 4th centuries BC.
Lycians
The Lycians were the Luwic-speaking inhabitants of Lycia, the mountainous southern shore of southwestern Anatolia, whose Iron Age kingdom fell under Persian rule around 540 BC.
Lydia
Lydia: ancient kingdom of western Anatolia (modern Turkey) on the Hermus/Gediz valley, capital Sardis; Mermnad kings Gyges, Alyattes, Croesus; credited with the first state coinage; conquered by Cyrus of Persia in 547/6 or 546 BC.
Lydian coinage
Lydian coinage is the earliest known stamped coinage in the world, struck in electrum at Sardis, capital of Lydia, from roughly the mid-seventh century BC under the Mermnad dynasty.
Lydian inscriptions
The Lydian inscriptions are about 100 surviving texts in the Lydian language and alphabet, mostly from Sardis, dating from the eighth to the third century BC.
Lydian language
Lydian is an extinct Indo-European language of the Anatolian branch, attested in about a hundred inscriptions from Sardis and western Asia Minor, mostly from the 5th and 4th centuries BC.
Lydian–Milesian War
The Lydian–Milesian War was an eleven-year conflict between Lydia and Miletus in the late 7th century BC, begun by King Sadyattes and continued by his son Alyattes.
Lydians
The Lydians were an Iron Age people of western Anatolia, centered on their capital Sardis, who spoke the Lydian language and ruled a kingdom famed for early coinage.
Lydus
Lydus (Λυδός, Lydós) is the legendary eponymous king of Lydia in Herodotus' genealogy, son of Atys and brother of Tyrrhenus, known only from Greek literary tradition.
Lygdamis I of Halicarnassus
Lygdamis I of Halicarnassus, also known as Lygdamis of Halicarnassus, was a Carian ruler of Halicarnassus under Persian overlordship and the father of Artemisia I.
Lyres of Ur
The Lyres of Ur are wooden lyres and harps buried with elite dead in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, southern Iraq, around 2600 BC, excavated by Leonard Woolley.
Lysandra
Lysandra (Λυσάνδρα) was a Ptolemaic princess, daughter of Ptolemy I and Eurydice, who married Alexander V of Macedon and Agathocles of Thrace, whose execution helped provoke war.
Lysimachus (son of Lysimachus)
Lysimachus was a Macedonian prince, son of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, and Arsinoe II, daughter of Ptolemy I. He was killed at sixteen by Ptolemy Ceraunus.
Ma'adikarib Ya'fur
Ma'adikarib Ya'fur (Maʿdīkarib Yaʿfur) was a Christian king of Himyar in the early sixth century, the first attested Christian ruler of the kingdom and predecessor of Dhu Nuwas.
Ma'agan Michael ship
The Ma'agan Michael ship is a merchant vessel that sank around 400 BC off Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael, Israel, one of the best-preserved early wooden hulls in the Mediterranean.
Ma'in
Ma'in, the Minaean kingdom, was an ancient South Arabian trading kingdom in the Jawf valley of Yemen, with its capital at Qarnawu, flourishing in the 1st millennium BC.
Ma'sub inscription
The Ma'sub inscription (KAI 19) is a Phoenician stone inscription dated to 222/1 BC that records the dedication of a portico in a temple to ʿAshtart; the stone is held at the Louvre.
Maacah (queen mother of Judah)
Maacah, also spelled Maakah, was a wife of King Rehoboam of Judah, mother of Abijam, and queen mother in the early tenth century BC until Asa deposed her.
Maat
Maat (Ma'at) is the ancient Egyptian concept of truth, justice, and cosmic order, opposed to isfet (chaos), personified as a feathered goddess, maintained by the king, and weighed against the heart at judgment.
Maatkare
Maatkare Mutemhat was a God's Wife of Amun and Divine Adoratrice at Thebes during the 21st Dynasty, eldest daughter of King Pinedjem I, whose mummy was found in 1881.
Maatkare B
Maatkare B, also written Maatkara, was a royal woman of Egypt's Twenty-first Dynasty, a daughter of Psusennes II who married Osorkon and bore his heir, Shoshenq Q.
Maatkheperre Shoshenq
Maatkheperre Shoshenq, labeled Shoshenq IIc, is a poorly attested early pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-second (Libyan) Dynasty, known from a usurped statuette and a few inscriptions, his very existence as a separate king disputed.
Macedonian dynasty (Egypt)
The Macedonian dynasty of Egypt, also called the Argead dynasty, ruled Egypt from Alexander the Great's conquest in 332 BC until Ptolemy became king in 305/4 BC.
MacGregor plaque
The MacGregor plaque, also known as King Den's sandal label, is an incised ivory label of King Den, the fifth king of Egypt's First Dynasty, now in the British Museum.
Machimoi
The machimoi (μάχιμοι, "warriors") were native Egyptian soldiers of low rank, attested in Late Period Egypt (664–332 BC) and increasingly prominent in the Ptolemaic army, where 20,000 fought at Raphia in 217 BC.
Macrobians
The Macrobians (Greek Makrobioi, Latin Macrobii) are a legendary people of long-lived Ethiopians whom Herodotos places at the farthest south of the known world, claiming lifespans of 120 years.
Madaba Nabataean Inscriptions
The Madaba Nabataean Inscriptions are funerary and legal Nabataean texts found at Madaba in central Jordan, including the tomb inscription of Itaybel dated to AD 37.
Madduwatta
Madduwatta, also written Madduwattas, was an Anatolian warlord installed as a Hittite vassal in western Anatolia who later rebelled, seizing allied lands and raiding Cyprus.
Madiqen
Madiqen was a royal woman of the Napatan kingdom of Kush, a sistrum-player of Amun installed by king Anlamani and buried in Pyramid 27 at Nuri.
Madyes
Madyes, also Madyas, was a Scythian king of the 7th century BC, son of Protothyes, known chiefly from Herodotus as the commander who defeated the Medes, after which the Scythians dominated Western Asia for decades.