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Minkhaf
Minkhaf, also known as Minkhaf I, was a prince and vizier of Dynasty 4 Egypt, a son of pharaoh Khufu, buried in a double mastaba at Giza.
Minmontu
Minmontu, also written Minmonth and called Senires, was High Priest of Amun at Thebes in the early 18th Dynasty, serving under Ahmose I and Amenhotep I.
Minmose (overseer of granaries)
Minmose was an Egyptian official of the 18th Dynasty who held the title Overseer of the Granary under Queen Hatshepsut, attested in the obelisk-transport inscription at Deir el-Bahari.
Minmose (overseer of works)
Minmose was an official of Egypt's 18th Dynasty who served under Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, titled overseer of the festivals of Osiris and steward of the God's Wife.
Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Dab'a
The Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Dab'a are more than 20,000 wall-painting fragments in Minoan style, found at Avaris in Egypt's Nile Delta and dating to about 1470 BC.
Mint of Gadir
The mint of Gadir, the coin-producing institution of the Phoenician city of Gadir in modern Cádiz, Spain, struck bronze from around 300 BC and later Barcid silver.
Minuscule South Arabian script
The minuscule South Arabian script, called zabūr (خط الزبور), is the everyday variant of the Ancient South Arabian alphabet, incised on wooden sticks in pre-Islamic Yemen.
Mirgissa Execration Texts
The Mirgissa execration texts are Middle Kingdom Egyptian ritual inscriptions found at Mirgissa in Lower Nubia in 1962, naming foreign enemies to be ritually subdued.
Mīs pî
Mīs pī, Akkadian for "washing of the mouth," is the Mesopotamian ritual for consecrating divine statues, in which a priest washes and animates the image as a living god.
Misagenes
Misagenes was a Numidian prince, a son of King Massinissa, who commanded the Numidian cavalry sent to help Rome in its war against Perseus of Macedon (171–168 BC).
Mišarum
Mišarum, an Akkadian word meaning 'justice', was an Old Babylonian royal edict canceling debts, remitting palace arrears, and freeing debt slaves, proclaimed by Babylonian kings from 2004 to 1595 BC.
Mission of Ezra
The Mission of Ezra, or Ezra's reform, was the journey of the priest and scribe Ezra from Babylon to Persian-ruled Jerusalem, traditionally dated to 458 BC under Artaxerxes I.
Mistress of the Animals (Minet el-Beida)
The Mistress of the Animals is a Late Bronze Age carved ivory pyxis lid from Tomb III at Minet el-Beida, Ugarit's harbor, showing a goddess nourishing wild goats.
Mita of Mushki's war with Assyria
Mita of Mushki's war with Assyria was a conflict between Mita of the Mushki, usually identified with Midas of Phrygia, and Sargon II of Assyria from about 718 to 709 BC.
Mita of Pahhuwa
Mita of Pahhuwa was a ruler of the eastern Anatolian kingdom of Pahhuwa around 1400 BC, remembered from the Hittite Pahhuwa letter as a local king who defied Hittite power.
Mitanni dynasty
The Mitanni dynasty was the royal house of Mitanni, a Hurrian kingdom that ruled Upper Mesopotamia and parts of Syria from the 15th to the 14th century BC.
Mithrapata
Mithrapata, also known as Mithrapata of Lycia, was a dynast of Lycia in southern Anatolia around 390–370 BC, known from silver coins bearing his name in Lycian, including some of the earliest human portraits on coinage.
Mitinti (king of Ashdod)
Mitinti, also spelled Mittinti, was king of Ashdod, a Philistine city-state in the southern Levant, named in Sennacherib's annals of the 701 BC campaign, after which Ashdod kept its king and gained Judahite territory.
Mitinti (king of Ashkelon)
Mitinti, also Mitinti I, was king of Ashkelon, a Philistine city-state, who rebelled against and then paid tribute to Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria in the 730s BC.
Mitinti II
Mitinti II was a king of Ashkelon in the first half of the 7th century BC, a loyal vassal of Esarhaddon known from Assyrian inscriptions.
Mizreh
The mizreh (Punic mrzḥ, plural mizrehim) was a constituted body or association in Carthaginian society, attested in inscriptions including the Marseilles Tariff and the Maktar inscription, and compared to a Roman collegium.
MMST
MMST is a word stamped on the royal storage-jar handles of Hezekiah, king of Judah, in the late eighth century BCE, and scholars still dispute its meaning.
Moabite submission to Shalmaneser III
The Moabite submission to Shalmaneser III concerns Moab's position during the Assyrian king's decades-long western campaigns against the Damascus coalition that met him at Qarqar in 853 BC.
Mochus
Mochus (Greek Μωχός, also spelled Mochos or Mokhos) is a legendary Phoenician sage of Sidon whom ancient authors credited with the atomic theory, though none of his writings survive.
Mona Lisa of Nimrud
The 'Mona Lisa' of Nimrud, also called the Lady of the Well, is a carved ivory head of a woman found at Nimrud, Iraq, in 1952.
Montuemhat
Montuemhat, also written Mentuemhat, was a Theban official and Governor of Upper Egypt under Taharqo and Psamtik I, buried in the largest private tomb in Western Thebes.
Montuherkhopshef (son of Ramesses III)
Montuherkhopshef, also written Mentuherkhepeshef, was a prince of Egypt's 20th Dynasty and a son of Pharaoh Ramesses III, listed sixth among the royal sons at Medinet Habu.
Montuwoser
Mentuwoser, also rendered Montu-user, was a royal steward and Overseer of the Double Granary under King Senusret I of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, known from a finely carved stela now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Monumentum Adulitanum
The Monumentum Adulitanum, also called the Adulitan inscription, is a pair of Greek inscriptions from Adulis in the Aksumite kingdom, preserved only in Cosmas Indicopleustes' writing.
Mosaic of Rehob
The Mosaic of Rehob, or Rehov mosaic inscription, is a 6th–7th-century Hebrew synagogue inscription from the Beth Shean Valley, Israel, listing rabbinic laws of the Sabbatical year and tithing.