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Abba-El I
Abba-El I of Yamhad was a Bronze Age Syrian king centered on Halab, known for suppressing a revolt, destroying Irridu, and granting Alalakh to his brother Yarim-Lim.
Abba-El II
Abba-El II was a king of Yamhad, the Bronze Age Syrian kingdom centered on Halab (modern Aleppo), belonging to the dynasty restored after the Hittite destructions.
Abdi-Ashirta
Abdi-Ashirta, also written Abdi-Ashtarta, was the ruler of Amurru in mid-fourteenth-century BCE Syria, known almost entirely from the Amarna letters as the adversary of Rib-Hadda of Byblos.
Abdi-Heba
Abdi-Heba (Abdi-Ḫeba), also written Abdi-Kheba, was the ruler of Jerusalem in the mid-14th century BC during the Amarna period, pleading in seven letters for Egyptian troops.
Adad-Nirari of Nuhašše
Adad-Nirari of Nuhašše, also vocalized Addu-nirari, was a Bronze Age king of Nuhašše in inland Syria, known from his Amarna letter EA 51 to the pharaoh of Egypt.
Ahatmilku
Ahatmilku, also written Ahat-milki, was a 13th-century BC queen of Ugarit, wife of King Niqmepa and mother of King Ammiṯtamru II, known from tablets excavated at Ras Shamra.
Akizzi
Akizzi was a king of Qatna, at Tell Mishrifeh in Syria, who flourished in the mid-14th century BC and is known chiefly as a correspondent of Pharaoh Akhenaten in the Amarna letters.
Ammistamru I
Ammistamru I, also known as Ammittamru I, was a Bronze Age king of Ugarit on the Syrian coast, subordinate to Egypt's Amenophis III and father of Niqmaddu II.
Ammistamru II
Ammistamru II, also written Ammittamru II, was king of Ugarit in western Syria in the mid-13th century BC, known for his divorce from the daughter of Benteshina of Amurru.
Ammitaqum
Ammitaqum, also written Ammitakum, was a king of Alalakh, modern Tell Atchana in Turkey, who ruled in the seventeenth century BC as the last attested king of the Level VII dynasty.
Ammunira
Ammunira of Biruta was the ruler of Beirut, called Biruta in the letters, in the mid-14th century BCE, known only from letters he wrote to the pharaohs preserved in the Amarna archive.
Ammurapi
Ammurapi, also known as Amurapi, was the last king of Ugarit, reigning from 1215 BC until the kingdom fell around 1190–1185 BC during the Late Bronze Age collapse.
Amut-pi'el II
Amut-pi'el II, also known as Amut-Pi-El, was a king of Qatna, a Middle Bronze Age kingdom in western Syria at Tall Mišrife, who reigned around 1720–1700 BC.
Arhalba
Arḫalba, also Arhalbu, was a king of Ugarit in Bronze Age Syria, deposed by the Hittite king Muršili II after a reign of about two years.
Aziru
Aziru, also known as Azira, was ruler of Amurru, a kingdom in coastal Syria and part of Lebanon, succeeding his father Abdi-Aŝirta around 1345 BCE.
Biridiya
Biridiya, also Biridija, was the Canaanite mayor of Megiddo under Egyptian overlordship in the mid-14th century BCE, known for eight Amarna letters pleading for troops against the hostile ruler Labaya.
Biryawaza
Biryawaza, also known as Birjawaza, was a dignitary of the mid-14th century BC Amarna age who served as an agent of Egyptian rule in Syria-Palestine and is linked with Damascus.
Duppi-Teshub
Duppi-Teshub (Duppi-Teššub, also spelled Tuppi-Teshub) was a king of Amurru, a Syrian kingdom between the Hittite and Egyptian spheres, grandson of Aziru and vassal of Muršili II, circa 1321–1295 BCE.
Dusigu
Dusigu was a royal woman of Ebla in northern Syria, last wife of king Irkab-damu and mother of Ishar-damu, who dominated the court as regent for nearly twenty years.
Endaruta
Endaruta, also read Intaruta, was ruler of the Canaanite city-state of Akshapa, biblical Achshaph, near Acco in western Galilee, in the mid-14th century BC, known from three Amarna letters.
Etakkama
Etakkama, also written Aitakkama or Aitukama, was king of Qadesh in Syria during the Amarna period, who began as an Egyptian vassal and defected to the Hittites under Suppiluliuma I.
Hammurabi II of Yamhad
Hammurabi II was a king of Yamhad, an Amorite kingdom whose capital was Halab (modern Aleppo, Syria), ruling in the middle of the 17th century BC.
Ibbit-Lim
Ibbit-Lim, also printed Yibbiṭ-Lim, was a king of Ebla in western Syria around 2000–1900 BC, known from an inscribed basalt statue found at Tell Mardikh in 1968.
Ibiranu
Ibiranu was a king of Ugarit, a Bronze Age Syrian city-state and vassal of the Hittite empire, reigning from about 1240 to 1225 BC and known from a letter of the king of Karkemish.
Idanda
Idanda, also rendered Idadda, was a king of Qatna in western Syria in the mid-14th century BC, known from a tablet archive found at his palace.
Idrimi
Idrimi of Alalakh was a Bronze Age king of Alalakh in southern Turkey, ruling around 1450 BC and known from his inscribed statue in the British Museum.
Igrish-Halam
Igrish-Halam, transliterated Igriš-Ḫalab, was a king of Ebla in Bronze Age Syria who reigned around 2360 BC and was the father and predecessor of king Irkab-damu.
Ili-Rapih
Ili-Rapiḫ, also spelled Ilirabih, was the ruler of Byblos on the Lebanese coast in the mid-14th century BC, successor of Rib-Adda and author of three Amarna letters to Egypt.
Ilimilimma
Ilimilimma was a king of the royal house of Yamhad, the Amorite kingdom centered on Halab (Aleppo), and the father of Idrimi, who later ruled Alalakh.
Immeya
Immeya was a king of Ebla in the 18th century BC, known from inscribed silver objects found in the royal funerary area at Tell Mardikh.