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Manapa-Tarhunta
Manapa-Tarhunta, also written Manapa-Tarḫunta, was king of the Seha River Land in western Anatolia in the late 14th century BC, becoming a vassal of Mursili II.
Manapa-Tarhunta Letter
The Manapa-Tarhunta Letter, also called the Manapa-Tarhunda letter, is a Hittite-period letter from the early thirteenth century BC, in which the vassal king Manapa-Tarhunta reports his defeat by Piyamaradu.
Manasseh's vassalage to Assyria
Manasseh's vassalage to Assyria was the subordination of Judah under King Manasseh to Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal in the seventh century BC, with Judah remaining a vassal kingdom, not an Assyrian province.
Mandane
Mandane (Old Iranian Mandanā) is, in Greek literary tradition, a daughter of the Median king Astyages, the wife of Cambyses I, and the mother of Cyrus the Great.
Mandaru
Mandaru is the sixth of seventeen early "kings who lived in tents" in the Assyrian King List, named between Harharu and Imsu; the list assigns him no regnal years.
Mandi hoard
The Mandi hoard is a cache of Harappan jewelry found by a farmer at Mandi village, Uttar Pradesh, India, in 2000, the largest ancient jewelry find in India.
Mane (Egyptian envoy)
Mane was an Egyptian envoy in the mid-14th century BC, named in the Amarna letters of Tushratta of Mitanni as one of the few who knew the kings' correspondence.
Manes of Lydia
Manes, a legendary king of Lydia, is documented by Herodotus as the father of Atys. He is believed to be at the head of the Atyad line.
Manetho
Manetho (Manethon of Sebennytos) was an Egyptian priest who wrote the Aegyptiaca, a Greek history of Egypt, under Ptolemy II in the early 3rd century BC.
Manhat
Manhata was a foreign royal wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III, likely from western Asia, buried with two other foreign wives in a cliff tomb at Thebes.
Manishtushu
Manishtushu (Man-ištūšu, 𒈠𒀭𒅖𒌅𒋢), third king of the Akkadian Empire (c. 2269–2255 BC), son of Sargon and brother of Rimush; known for the Obelisk of Manishtushu land purchases, Elam and Gulf campaigns, and standardized royal statues.
Manishtushu Obelisk
The Manishtushu Obelisk is a four-sided inscribed stone monument of Akkadian king Manishtushu, recording his purchase of large tracts of land around Kish about 2270 BC.
Manishtushu's campaign against Anshan and Shirihum
Manishtushu's campaign against Anshan and Shirihum was a military expedition of Manishtushu, king of Akkad, against Anshan, the highland capital of Elam, in the later 23rd century BC.
Manishtushu's campaign against Magan
Manishtushu's campaign against Magan was a seaborne expedition of c. 2270 BC in which Manishtushu, third king of Akkad, crossed the Persian Gulf and defeated a coalition of thirty-two kings.
Manium
Manium, also written Manui and Mannu-dannu, was the king of Magan whom Naram-Sin of Akkad defeated and captured, probably in the second half of the 23rd century BC.
Mannean–Assyrian wars
The Mannean–Assyrian wars were recurring conflicts and shifting alliances between the kingdom of Mannea in northwestern Iran and the Neo-Assyrian Empire, spanning roughly 843 to 616 BC.
Mannean–Urartian wars
The Mannean–Urartian wars were recurring conflicts between Urartu and the kingdom of Mannea over the Urmia basin from about 820 BC to the mid-7th century BC.
Manshiyat Ezzat Palette
The Manshiyat Ezzat Palette is a decorated ceremonial greywacke cosmetic palette unearthed in 1998 from an intact First Dynasty elite tomb at Minshat Ezzat in the northeastern Nile Delta.
Maqlû
Maqlû (Akkadian for "Burning") is the longest anti-witchcraft ritual known from ancient Mesopotamia: eight tablets of almost one hundred incantations performed over one night and morning, burning effigies of witches.
Mar-biti-ahhe-iddina
Mar-biti-ahhe-iddina was the third king of Babylon's Dynasty of E, a line that held the city after the Kassite dynasty fell; he reigned from 942 BC to an unknown end.
Mar-biti-apla-uṣur
Mar-biti-apla-uṣur, also written Mar-biti-apla-usur, was a king of Babylon of Elamite origin, reigning around 984–79 BC as the only recorded king of the Elamite dynasty.
Mar-Issar
Mar-Issar, also written Mār-Ištar, was a Babylonian scholar and astrologer in the service of King Esarhaddon, based in Babylon and known from 24 letters reporting celestial omens.
Marash lion
The Marash lion is a basalt gate lion from Kahramanmaraş, capital of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Gurgum, inscribed for King Halparuntiyas III and found in 1883.
Marduk
Marduk (Sumerian amar.utu, 'calf of the sun'), patron god of Babylon, rose from local agrarian deity to king of the gods via Enuma Elish; his Esagil temple, statue abductions, and rivalry with Assyria's Ashur distinguish him.
Marduk Prophecy
The Marduk Prophecy is an Akkadian text in which the god Marduk recounts his removals from Babylon and prophesies a king who will restore him, probably written under Nebuchadnezzar I.
Marduk-ahhe-eriba
Marduk-ahhe-eriba (Marduk-aḫḫē-erība) was a king of Babylon, the ninth ruler of the Second Dynasty of Isin, who reigned briefly around 1061 BC and is known only from king lists.
Marduk-apla-iddina I
Marduk-apla-iddina I, also known as Merodach-Baladan I, was a Kassite king of Babylon who reigned about 13 years, c. 1171–1159 BC, and is known from a kudurru in the Louvre.
Marduk-apla-iddina II
Marduk-apla-iddina II, known in the Hebrew Bible as Merodach-Baladan, was a Chaldean king of Babylon from 721 or 722 to 710 BC and again briefly in 703 BC.
Marduk-apla-usur
Marduk-apla-uṣur was a Chaldean king of Babylon in the early 8th century BC, reigning very speculatively ca. 780–769 BC and known only from three inscriptions.
Marduk-balassu-iqbi
Marduk-balassu-iqbi, also known as Marduk-balašu-iqbi, was king of Babylon from about 819 to 813 BC, remembered chiefly for his defeat and deportation to Assyria by Šamši-Adad V.