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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.
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.
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.
Idanda archive
The Idanda archive, also spelled Idadda, is a small royal administrative archive of clay tablets from the palace of Qatna, Syria, discovered in 2002 and dated around 1340 BC.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jebusites
The Jebusites were a Canaanite people dwelling in and around Jerusalem in the Bronze and early Iron Ages, whose city David reportedly captured around 1000 BC.
KTU 1.41
KTU 1.41, also cataloged as RS 1.003 and CTA 35, is a Ugaritic ritual tablet from Ugarit prescribing month-long Vintage sacrifices, excavated in 1929 by Claude Schaeffer.
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.
Lachish comb inscription
The Lachish comb inscription is a Canaanite sentence of 17 letters on an elephant-ivory comb from Tel Lachish, Israel, dated to about 1700–1550 BCE and wishing the tusk would root out lice.
Last letters of Ugarit
The last letters of Ugarit are cuneiform tablet letters from the final years of the Late Bronze Age kingdom of Ugarit, found in its destruction level.
Legend of Keret
The Legend of Keret is a Ugaritic epic poem on three clay tablets from Ugarit, telling of King Kirta's loss of family and divine promise of offspring.
Megiddo ivories
The Megiddo ivories are a hoard of 382 carved Bronze Age ivory pieces, furniture decorations, cosmetics items, and game boards, found in 1937 at Megiddo, northern Israel.
Megiddo Treasure
The Megiddo Treasure is a jewelry hoard found at Tel Megiddo, Israel, in 2010, hidden in a ceramic jug and dated to around 1100 BC.
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.
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.
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.