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Rimush in Wikipedia

Rimush was the second king of the Akkadian Empire. He was the son of Sargon of Akkad. He was succeeded by his brother Manishtushu. " According to his inscriptions, he faced widespread revolts which he successfully suppressed. He also records a victorious campaign against Elam and Barakhshe. A number of his votive offerings have been found in excav...

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Naplanum in Wikipedia

Naplanum was the first independent king of the ancient Near East city-state of Larsa ca. 1961 BC to 1940 BC - roughly during the reign of Ibbi-Sin of Ur-III and the great famine - according to the later Larsa King List. No contemporary year names or inscriptions have been found verifying that Naplanum was a king of Larsa, which seems to have remain...

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Neriglissar in Wikipedia

Nergal-sharezer or Neriglissar (in Akkadian Nergal-šar-uṣur, "Oh god Nergal, preserve/defend the king") was King of Babylon from 560 to 556 BC. He was the son-in-law of Nebuchadrezzar II, whose son and heir, Amel-Marduk, Nergal-sharezer murdered and succeeded. A Babylonian chronicle describes his western war in 557/556....

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Pekah in Wikipedia

Pekah ("open-eyed"; Latin: Phacee) was king of Israel. He was a captain in the army of king Pekahiah of Israel, whom he killed to become king.[1] Pekah was the son of Remaliah (Latin: Romelia). Pekah became king in the fifty-second and last year of Azariah, king of Judah, and he reigned twenty years.[2] In the second year of his reign Jotham becam...

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Pu-Abi in Wikipedia

Puabi (Akkadian: "Word of my father"), also called Shubad in Sumerian, was an important personage in the Sumerian city of Ur, during the First Dynasty of Ur (c.2600 BCE). Commonly labeled as a "queen", her status is somewhat in dispute. Several cylinder seals in her tomb identify her by the title "nin", a Sumerian word which can denote a queen or ...

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Rusa I in Wikipedia

Rusa I (ruled 735-713 BC) was a King of Urartu. He succeeded his father, the great King Sarduri II. Reign Before Rusa's reign had begun, his father, King Sarduri II the Great, had already expanded the kingdom as far south as Nineveh and had annexed various Assyrian and Anatolian territories. However, when Rusa I inherited the throne, the Assyrians...

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Nazi-Maruttash in Wikipedia

Nazimaruttash was a Kassite king of Babylon ca. 1307–1282 BC (short chronology). Nazimaruttash is known to have made at least one Kudurru boundary stone....

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Ninurta-Tukulti-Ashur in Wikipedia

Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur (Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur) was briefly King of Assyria in 1133 BC. He succeeded his father, the long-reigning Ashur-dan I, but the throne was very quickly usurped by his brother, Mutakkil-Nusku. Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur was forced to go into exile in Babylonia, with which he had maintained friendly relations....

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Pekahiah in Wikipedia

Pekahiah ("the Lord opened his eyes"; Latin: Phaceia) was a king of Israel and the son of Menahem, whom he succeeded, and the second and last king of Israel from the House of Gadi. He ruled from the capital of Samaria. Pekahiah became king in the fiftieth year of the reign of Azariah, king of Judah.[1] William F. Albright has dated his reign to 73...

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Puduhepa in Wikipedia

Puduhepa (Hittite: Pudu-Ḫepa, or Pudu-Kheba) - Hittite queen and Tawanannas married to King Hattusili III. She has been referred to as "one of the most influential women known from the Ancient Near East."[1] She played an important role in diplomacy with Egypt and was a co-signatory in the Ulmi-Teshub treaty. After her husband's death she was invol...

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