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Indilimma
Indilimma was a royal figure of the Syrian city of Ebla in the 17th century BC, attested through seal impressions naming him as a prince's father.
Irkab-Damu
Irkab-Damu, also known as Irkab-Damu of Ebla, was the penultimate king of Ebla in north-west Syria in the mid-24th century BC, reigning about eleven years and fathering Išar-Damu.
Irkabtum
Irkabtum (Irkab-tum) was an Amorite king of Yamhad, son and heir of Niqmi-Epuh, known from Alalakh year-name tablets; Ammitaqum of Alalakh bought a village from him.
Ishar-Damu
Ishar-Damu, also written Išar-Damu, was the last king of Ebla, a Syrian city-state of the mid-third millennium BC, reigning about 35 years before its violent destruction.
Ishi-Addu
Ishi-Addu, also known as Išḫi-Addu, was a king of Qatna in Bronze Age Syria around 1750–1730 BC, known from his royal seal and the Mari archives.
Itur-Addu
Itur-Addu was king of Mukiš, the Syrian kingdom with its capital at Alalakh, in the mid-14th century BC, known from Hittite documents as leader of a coalition against Šuppiluliuma I.
Kun-Damu
Kun-Damu was a king of Ebla, the Bronze Age Syrian kingdom at Tell Mardikh, who ruled in the mid-24th century BC, before the city's main written archives.
Labaya
Labaya, also written Lab'ayu, was a Canaanite ruler of the mid-14th century BC based at Shechem, the most notorious Canaanite correspondent of the Amarna letters.
Mutbaal (ruler of Pella)
Mutbaal, also written Mut-Baalu, was ruler of Pella in the Transjordanian Jordan Valley in the mid-14th century BC, known as the author of Amarna letter EA 255.
Naplimma
Naplimma, also rendered Napilima, was a Bronze Age king of Qatna in inland Syria, known only from temple treasure inventories found at Tell Mishrife near Homs in 1927.
Niqmaddu II of Ugarit
Niqmaddu II, also written Niqmadu II, was king of Ugarit, a coastal kingdom in northern Syria, in the mid-14th century BC, becoming a treaty vassal of Suppiluliuma I.
Niqmaddu III of Ugarit
Niqmaddu III, also written Niqmadu III, was a king of Ugarit, a Bronze Age Syrian port kingdom on the Mediterranean coast, reigning c. 1225–1215 BC as a Hittite vassal.
Niqmepa of Alalakh
Niqmepa, King of Mukish, was a Bronze Age king of Alalakh in modern Turkey, son and successor of Idrimi, known from the Level IV archive tablets.
Niqmepa of Ugarit
Niqmepa, also known as Niqmepuh, was king of Ugarit from about 1313 to 1260 BC, placed on the throne by the Hittite king Mursili II after his brother Arhalba was removed.
Niqmi-Epuh
Niqmi-Epuh, also written Niqmepuh, was a king of Yamhad, the Amorite kingdom centered on Aleppo, ruling in the first half of the second millennium BC.
Pu-Ba'lu
Pu-Ba'lu was the ruler of Yursa, a south Canaanite polity possibly located at Tel Haror, who corresponded with pharaohs Amenhotep III and Akhenaten in the Amarna letters.
Rib-Hadda
Rib-Hadda, also written Rib-Adda, was king of Byblos on the Lebanese coast around 1370 to 1340 BC, a vassal of Egypt who wrote more Amarna letters than anyone else.
Shapili
Shapili, also rendered Šapili, was a 13th-century BC king of Amurru, a Hittite vassal kingdom in western Syria, installed by Muwatalli II after Benteshina's rebellion and later removed when Benteshina was restored.
Shaushgamuwa
Shaushgamuwa, also spelled Saušgamuwa, was king of Amurru, a Hittite vassal kingdom in Syria, in the late 13th century BC under the Hittite great king Tudhaliya IV.
Shutatarra
Shutatarra, also written Šutatarra or Suttarna, was a king of Kadesh on the Orontes in western Syria, flourishing around 1350 BC during the Amarna period.
Shuwardata
Šuwardata, also Suwardata, was a Canaanite ruler of the mid-14th century BC, probably master of Gath and nearby Keilah, known from four Amarna letters to the Egyptian king.
Sumu-Epuh
Sumu-Epuh, also written Sumu-epeh, was the founding king of the Hambe dynasty of Yamhad, the Amorite kingdom centered on Aleppo, reigning from about 1810 to 1780 BC and succeeded by his son Yarim-Lim I.
Tabur-Damu
Tabur-Damu was a queen consort of Ebla, a city-state in north-west Syria, in the 24th century BC, wife of the last king Isar-damu and known from the Ebla tablets.
Tagi (ruler of Ginti)
Tagi was a Canaanite ruler of the city of Ginti, known from the Amarna letters of the mid-14th century BC and allied with Milkilu of Gezer.
Tette
Tette, also rendered Titti, was a 14th-century BC king of Nuḫašše in inland Syria, installed as a Hittite vassal by Šuppiluliuma I and later deposed.
Tupkish
Tupkish (Tupkiš) was a Hurrian king of Urkesh, a city at Tell Mozan in northeastern Syria, whose palace is dated to about 2250 BC in the Akkadian period.
Yantin-'Ammu
Yantin-'Ammu, also written Yantin-Ammu, was a Middle Bronze Age ruler of the coastal city of Byblos in the Levant, placed before Abishemu in a dynasty whose city held privileged ties with Middle Kingdom Egypt.
Yapahu
Yapaḫu, also written Yapahu, was a Canaanite ruler of Gezer in the mid-14th century BC, known from five Amarna letters pleading for Egyptian help against the ʿApiru.
Yarim-Lim (king of Alalakh)
Yarim-Lim was a vassal king of Alalakh, installed by his brother Abba'el of Yamhad in the early second millennium BC and founder of a local dynasty.
Yarim-Lim I
Yarim-Lim I, also known as Yarimlim, was a king of Yamhad in western Syria who reigned from Halab (modern Aleppo) c. 1780–1765 BC as the region's most powerful king.