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Marduk-bel-zeri
Marduk-bel-zeri was a king of Babylon of the early 8th century BC, placed between Ninurta-apla-X and Marduk-apla-usur in Dynasty E of the Babylonian King List.
Marduk-kabit-ahheshu
Marduk-kabit-ahheshu (Marduk-kābit-aḫḫēšu) was the founder and first king of the Second Dynasty of Isin of Babylon, ruling c. 1152–1135 BC after the Kassite dynasty's collapse.
Marduk-nadin-ahhe
Marduk-nadin-ahhe, also known as Marduk-nadin-akhi, was king of Babylon from about 1099 to 1082 BC, the sixth ruler of the Second Dynasty of Isin and brother of Nebuchadnezzar I.
Marduk-shakin-shumi
Marduk-šākin-šumi was chief exorcist (rab āšipī) at the Neo-Assyrian royal court of King Esarhaddon in the 7th century BC, known from letters he sent the king in 670 BC.
Marduk-shapik-zeri
Marduk-shapik-zeri (Marduk-šāpik-zēri) was the seventh king of Babylon's Second Dynasty of Isin, son of Marduk-nādin-ahhē, who reigned 13 years, c. 1081–1069 BC, rebuilding Babylon's wall and bringing prosperity after famine.
Marduk-shar-usur
Marduk-šar-uṣur (Marduk-šarru-uṣur) was governor of the Assyrian province of Kurbail who served as eponym, giving his name to the year 784 BC, recorded in the eponym lists with a campaign to Ḫubuškia.
Marduk-zakir-shumi I
Marduk-zakir-shumi I (Marduk-zākir-šumi I) was a king of Babylon around 855 BC, best known for suppressing his brother Marduk-bel-usati's revolt with Assyrian help from Shalmaneser III.
Marduk-zakir-shumi II
Marduk-zākir-šumi II was a Babylonian recorded as king of Babylon for one month in 703 BC, listed after the Assyrian king Sennacherib and before Marduk-apla-iddina II's second reign.
Marduk-zer-X
Marduk-zer-X, also written Marduk-zēr-X and restored as Marduk-zēra-ibni, was the tenth and penultimate king of Babylon's Second Dynasty of Isin, ruling 12 years around 1041–1030 BC.
Marhasi
Marhasi, also known as Marhashi or Parahshum, was an ancient polity of the Iranian highlands, attested in Mesopotamian texts from about 2300 to 1750 BCE.
Mari Eponym Chronicle
The Mari Eponym Chronicle, an Old Babylonian copy found in the palace of Zimri-Lim at Mari, names each year's Assyrian eponym and records the year's main political event.
Marius Alfius
Marius Alfius (died 215 BC) was a Campanian magistrate who held the office of medix tuticus and commanded 14,000 troops in the revolt against Rome during the Second Punic War.
Marriage of Ramesses II and Maathorneferure
The marriage of Ramesses II and Maathorneferure was a diplomatic marriage of 1245 BC between the pharaoh and a daughter of the Hittite king Hattusili III.
Marsala Punic ship
The Marsala Punic ship is a Carthaginian vessel found off Marsala, Sicily, in 1971 by Honor Frost's team, likely lost at the end of the First Punic War.
Marthad'ilan Yanuf
Marthad'ilan Yanuf, also transliterated Marthadʾilān Yanūf, was a king of the Himyarite kingdom in southern Arabia, reigning from about 500 to 515 or 518 CE.
Marthad'ilan Yu'nim
Marthad'ilan Yu'nim, also rendered Marthadʾilān Yuʾnim, was a king of Ḥimyar and Sabaʾ in ancient South Arabia who reigned around 480–485 CE, in the last generation of independent Himyarite kings.
Maryannu
The maryannu (mariannu) were the noble class of the Late Bronze Age Levant and upper Mesopotamia, whose privilege was fighting from horse-drawn chariots, especially in the Mitanni empire.
Masaesyli
The Masaesyli, also known as Masaesyles, were a Berber tribal kingdom of western Numidia in present-day Algeria, ruled by King Syphax and absorbed into Masinissa's unified Numidia after 203 BC.
Masaharta
Masaharta, also Masaherta or Masahirta, was High Priest of Amun at Thebes during Dynasty 21, eldest son of Pinedjem I, serving from about 1055 to 1046 BC.
Maşat Höyük letters
The Maşat Höyük letters are a Hittite cuneiform archive from the site of Tapigga in north-central Anatolia, mostly letters dating to the early 14th century BC.
Mashda
Mashda, also known as Masda, is an early ruler of Kish known only from the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a reign of 840 years.
Mašḫuiluwa
Mašḫuiluwa (Mashuiluwa) was a king of Mira-Kuwaliya in western Anatolia, installed as a Hittite vassal by Mursili II and later deposed for rebellion and exiled.
Masinissa
Masinissa, also spelled Massinissa, was king of Numidia in North Africa from 202 to 148 BC, having helped Rome win the Second Punic War at Zama.
Masinissa's defection to Rome
Masinissa's defection to Rome was the Numidian prince Masinissa's 206 BC pledge, made after the Carthaginian defeat at Ilipa, to support Scipio Africanus's planned invasion of Africa.
Masinissa's encroachments on Carthaginian territory
Masinissa's encroachments on Carthaginian territory, also called Masinissa's raids on Carthaginian territory, were seizures of Carthaginian land, chiefly the Emporia district, by Numidia's king Masinissa from about 200 to 151 BC.
Masinissa's unification of Numidia
Masinissa's unification of Numidia was the creation of a single Numidian kingdom around 202 BC, when the Roman settlement after the Battle of Zama gave Syphax's dominions to Masinissa.
Mask of Warka
The Mask of Warka, also known as the Lady of Uruk, is a carved marble female face from Uruk, Iraq, made around 3100 BC and held in Baghdad.
Masoba Warq
Masoba Warq, also written Mesobe Werq or Terde'a Gabaz, is a legendary Aksumite princess of Ethiopian tradition whose marriage to the first Zagwe king transferred the kingdom, a story known only from later chronicles.
Masruq
Masruq, or Masruq ibn Abraha, was the son and successor of Abraha and the last Aksumite ruler of Himyar in Yemen, overthrown by the Persians around 570.
Massiva
Massiva was a Numidian prince of the royal house of Masinissa, son of Gulussa, who fled to Rome after 112 BC and was assassinated there on Jugurtha's orders.