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Abdi-Tirshi
Abdi-Tirshi (Abdi-Tershi) was the Canaanite ruler of Hazor in the mid-14th century BC, the only northern Canaanite leader styled "king" in the Amarna letters to Akhenaten.
Abimilki (king of Tyre)
Abimilki, also written Abi-milku, was ruler of the Levantine city of Tyre in the mid-14th century BC, known from ten letters he sent to the Egyptian pharaoh.
Adda-danu
Adda-danu was a ruler of Gazru, biblical Gezer, in the mid-14th century BC, known only as the author of two Amarna letters to the pharaoh.
Addaya
Addaya, also known as Addaia, was an Egyptian commissioner stationed in Canaan during the Amarna age of the mid-14th century BCE, serving under Amenhotep III and Akhenaten and appearing in the Amarna letters.
Arrukum
Arrukum was a great vizier of the Syrian city-state of Ebla, head of its administration under king Irkab-damu in the second quarter of the 24th century BC.
Attenu
Attenu, also known as Attanu, was a Hurrian diviner and chief priest in the Late Bronze Age kingdom of Ugarit, known as the teacher of the scribe Ilimilku.
Ayyab
Ayyab, also spelled Ayab, was a Levantine vassal ruler of the mid-fourteenth century BC, known from the Amarna letters as the writer of letter EA 364 to the Egyptian king.
Azi (scribe)
Azi was a scribe of Ebla, a 24th-century BC city-state in western Syria, known from signed and colophoned lexical tablets of the Royal Palace G archive.
Biridašwa
Biridašwa, also spelled Biridashwa or Biridaswa, was a ruler of a Canaanite city-state who appears in the Amarna letters, the diplomatic archive of Akhenaten's reign in the 14th century BC.
Ibbi-Sipish
Ibbi-Sipish, read in the Ebla tablets as Ibbi-zikir, was the vizier of Ebla under its last king, Išar-damu, in the decades before Ebla's destruction in the late third millennium BC.
Ibrium
Ibrium, also read Ebrium, was the vizier of the Syrian city-state of Ebla in the 24th century BC, serving eighteen years under king Išar-Damu and passing the office to his son Ibbi-zikir.
Ilimilku
Ilimilku of Ugarit was a 13th-century BC scribe and priest who signed five colophons on Ugaritic mythological tablets, including the Baal Cycle, Kirta, and Aqhat.
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.
Pahhanate
Pahhanate, written Paḫamnata in cuneiform, was an Egyptian rābiṣu, or resident commissioner, at Ṣumur in Amurru, known only from the Amarna letters of the mid-14th century BC.
Rapanu
Rapanu, also written Rap'anu, was a scribe and high official of the kingdom of Ugarit on the north Syrian coast in the 13th century BC.
Satatna
Satatna, also printed Shutatna, was a Canaanite ruler of Akka (modern Acre) in the mid-14th century BC, known from a single mention in the Amarna letters.
Šatiya
Šatiya, also known as Shatiya, was the mayor of Enišasi in the Levant who wrote Amarna letter EA 187 to the Egyptian king in the mid-14th century BC.
Sharri-Kusuh
Sharri-Kusuh, also known as Piyaššili, was the first Hittite viceroy king of Carchemish in northern Syria, appointed by his father, the Hittite great king Šuppiluliuma I, in the 14th century BC.
Shuta (Egyptian official)
Shuta (Akkadian Šuta) was an Egyptian commissioner of the late Eighteenth Dynasty, named in Amarna letter EA 234, where the ruler of Akko protests against him.
Sinaranu
Sinaranu (Akkadian Ṣinaruna) was a private merchant of Bronze Age Ugarit whose ship and cargo of grain, beer, and olive oil were exempted from palace dues on arrival from Crete.
Šipti-Ba'lu
Šipti-Ba'lu, also Shipti-Ba'al, was a Canaanite city-state ruler of the mid-14th century BC in the Shephelah, known from the Amarna letters, which accuse him of conspiring against Egypt.
Sipti-Baal
Sipti-Baal, also rendered Shipṭi-Baʿlu, was a Canaanite ruler of the mid-14th century BC known from the Amarna letters, where he denied conspiring against the pharaoh.
Surata (ruler of Acco)
Surata, also transliterated Šurata, was ruler of the Canaanite city of Acco in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, known from the Amarna letters as a loyal Egyptian vassal.
Takuhlinu
Takuhlinu was a governor of the Levantine kingdom of Ugarit in the 13th century BC, known from an Akkadian letter found at Tel Aphek in Israel.
Urtenu
Urtēnu was a high-ranking official and merchant of the Late Bronze Age kingdom of Ugarit, active under its last two kings in the 13th and 12th centuries BC.
Yabitiri
Yabitiri was a Canaanite ruler of the Amarna letters, the fourteenth-century BC archive in Egypt; his letter EA 296 describes him guarding the gates of Gaza and Joppa.
Yabninu
Yabninu was a rich high-ranking "man of the king" in the Syrian city-state of Ugarit in the late 13th century BC, known from cuneiform tablets.
Yanhamu
Yanhamu, also known as Yanḫamu, was an Egyptian commissioner in Canaan during the Amarna period, roughly 1360–1335 BC, known from the Amarna letters as commissioner of Yarimuta and Ṣumur.
Yapa-Addu (governor of Byblos)
Yapa-Hadda, also written Yapah-Hadda, was the mayor and ruler of Biruta (modern Beirut) during the Amarna period, writing two surviving letters to the Egyptian pharaoh.
Yapa-Hadda
Yapa-Hadda, also known as Yappah-Hadda, was a Canaanite ruler of Beirut in the mid-14th century BC, titled mayor by Egypt but a king to his own subjects, known from the Amarna letters.