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Messuy
Messuy, also written Messuwy, was Viceroy of Kush, a high Egyptian official in Nubia, under Pharaoh Merneptah around 1212–1202 BC, and is best known for a disputed proposal that he later ruled as the pharaoh Amenmesse.
Methusastartus
Methusastartus, also transmitted as Methustratos, was a king of Tyre after Abdastartus and before Astarymus; his name and dates rest on derived king lists, since Josephus's text leaves the reign unnamed.
Metjen
Metjen, also rendered Methen, was a high official and territorial administrator of early Old Kingdom Egypt, whose mastaba at Saqqara holds one of the oldest known Egyptian autobiographies.
Metternich Stela
The Metternich Stela, named for Prince Metternich, is an Egyptian healing stela of Dynasty 30, made under Nectanebo II and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
MHDYS
MHDYS, also vocalized Mehadeyis or Mahadayas, was a Christian king of the Kingdom of Aksum in Ethiopia and Eritrea, known only from his 5th-century coins.
Mibtahiah
Mibtahiah, also read Miptahiah, was a Judaean landholder at the Jewish garrison of Elephantine in fifth-century BC Egypt, known from an archive of eleven Aramaic legal papyri.
Micaiah son of Imlah
Micaiah son of Imlah, also known as Micaiah ben Imlah, was an Israelite prophet of the 9th century BCE who foretold King Ahab's death at Ramoth-gilead.
Michaux Stone
The Michaux Stone (Caillou Michaux) is a Babylonian kudurru, or land-grant stone, engraved under King Marduk-nadin-ahhe around 1099–1082 BC and recording a father's gift of a field to his daughter.
Micipsa
Micipsa, eldest son of Massinissa, was king of Numidia from 148 to 118 BC; he adopted Jugurtha, whose succession dispute after Micipsa's death provoked the Jugurthine War.
Midas City inscriptions
The Midas City inscriptions, also called the Yazılıkaya inscriptions, are Old Phrygian rock-cut texts at Midas City, Eskişehir Province, Turkey, mostly from the 6th century BC.
Midas' submission to Sargon II
Midas' submission to Sargon II was Midas of Phrygia's 709 BC offer of allegiance to the Neo-Assyrian king, ending nine years of confrontation without a battle.
Middle Assyrian coronation ritual
The Middle Assyrian coronation ritual is a ritual text from Aššur, Iraq, preserved on about half of a clay tablet, describing the king's re-investiture as priest before the god Aššur.
Middle Assyrian Empire
The Middle Assyrian Empire, called māt Aššur, was the Assyrian state centered on Aššur from about 1400 to 1000 BC, rising to great-power rank under Ashur-uballit I.
Middle Assyrian Palace Decrees
The Middle Assyrian Palace Decrees, also called the Palace Edicts, are Akkadian regulations governing the Assyrian royal palace and its women, issued by nine kings and compiled around 1100 BC.
Middle Hittite kingdom
The Middle Hittite kingdom is the modern label for the poorly documented 'dark age' of the Hittite kingdom, from Telipinu's reign to Tudhaliya I's accession in the late 15th century BC.
Middle Kingdom of Egypt
Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2040-1782 BCE, Dynasty 11-13): reunification by Mentuhotep II after the First Intermediate Period, the 12th Dynasty classical age under Amenemhat I and Senusret III, ending with the Hyksos rise in the Second Intermediate Period.
Midianite pottery
Midianite pottery, known as Qurayyah Painted Ware, is a painted pottery of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, made at Qurayyah in northwest Arabia.
Midob people
The Midob, self-designation Tiddi, are a Nubian-speaking people of the Meidob Hills in North Darfur, western Sudan, centered on Malha, with about 50,000 speakers of their Darfur Nubian language.
Milawata letter
The Milawata letter is a fragmentary Hittite clay tablet from the late thirteenth century BC, probably sent by King Tudhaliya IV to Tarkasnawa, king of Mira, in western Anatolia.
Milkilu
Milkilu, also written Milki-Ilu or Milkili, was ruler of the Canaanite city-state of Gezer in the mid-14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters, including a pharaoh's demand for 40 women for the royal harem.
Milkyaton (king of Kition)
Milkyaton, also known as Melekiathon, was a Phoenician king of Kition and Idalion on Cyprus who reigned from 392 BC for at least thirty years, commemorating a naval victory over Salamis.
Milyan language
Milyan, also called Lycian B, is a poorly understood Luwic language of ancient Lycia in southwestern Anatolia, known from two poetic stone inscriptions of the 6th to 4th century BC.
Min (god)
Min (Egyptian Mnw) is an ancient Egyptian fertility and harvest god, protector of the Eastern Desert, worshipped from predynastic times, with cult centers at Koptos and Akhmim and ithyphallic two-plumed iconography.
Min Palette
The Min Palette, also called the El-Amrah palette, is a late Predynastic Egyptian ceremonial cosmetic palette carved with the god Min's emblem, held in the British Museum.
Minaean language
Minaean language, also called Minaic or Madhabaic, is one of the four Ancient South Arabian languages, the written language of the kingdom of Maʿīn in northwestern Yemen from the 8th century BC.
Minaean sarcophagus of Zaydil
The Minaean sarcophagus of Zayd'il is a wooden coffin from Egypt bearing the Minaic inscription M 338 of Zayd'il, a merchant who supplied myrrh to Egyptian temples.
Minaean trade colony at Dedan
A settled community of merchants from South Arabia's kingdom of Ma'in at the oasis of Dedan, in northwest Arabia, from roughly the 3rd to 1st century BCE.
Mindjedef
Mindjedef was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a son of Prince Kawab and a grandson of King Khufu, known from his red granite sarcophagus and mastaba G 7760 at Giza.
Minemhat
Minemhat was an ancient Egyptian official who served as mayor of Koptos in Upper Egypt during the Seventeenth Dynasty, under the Theban king Nubkheperre Intef.
Mining expedition of Ramesses IV to the Wadi Hammamat
The mining expeditions of Ramesses IV to the Wadi Hammamat (c. 1156–1150 BC) quarried prized bekhen-stone for his mortuary monuments, the largest workforce exceeding 8,000 men.