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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.
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.
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.
Tupkish dynasty of Urkesh
The Tupkish dynasty was the Hurrian ruling house of the ancient city of Urkesh at Tell Mozan in northeastern Syria, founded by King Tupkish around 2250 BC.
Ugarit earthquake
The Ugarit earthquake refers to earthquakes proposed by excavator Claude Schaeffer for Bronze Age Ugarit, Syria, around 1365 BC and 1250 BC, inferred from archaeology.
Ugaritic alphabet
The Ugaritic alphabet, also called Ugaritic cuneiform, is a cuneiform abjad of 30 signs used at the Syrian city of Ugarit from the 14th century BC until about 1185 BC.
Ugaritic language
Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic language spoken at Ugarit on the north Syrian coast, written in an alphabetic cuneiform script of 30 signs, attested mainly in the 13th century BCE.
Ugaritic texts
The Ugaritic texts, also called the Ras Shamra tablets, are clay tablets excavated since 1929 at Ras Shamra, the site of ancient Ugarit on the north Syrian coast.
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.
Urtenu archive
The Urtenu archive is a corpus of about 650 cuneiform tablets excavated since the 1980s at Ras Shamra, ancient Ugarit in Syria, dating to roughly 1225–1185 BC and including royal correspondence.
Wars between Mari and Ebla
The wars between Mari and Ebla were recurring third-millennium BC conflicts between rival trade kingdoms of the Syrian Euphrates, fought over control of regional trade routes.
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.
Yamhad
Yamhad, also written Yamkhad, was an Amorite kingdom of the Middle Bronze Age centered on Aleppo in northwestern Syria, a great power from around 1800 BC.
Yamhad dynasty
The Yamhad dynasty, also called the Yamhadite dynasty, was an Amorite royal dynasty that ruled Yamhad, centered on Halab (Aleppo), in the early second millennium BC.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yarim-Lim II
Yarim-Lim II was a king of Yamhad, the Amorite kingdom centered on Aleppo in northern Syria, reigning from about 1720 to 1700 BC; his son Niqmepa succeeded him.
Yarim-Lim III
Yarim-Lim III was a king of Yamhad, the Amorite kingdom centered on Halab (modern Aleppo) in Syria, who took the throne after Irkabtum around 1645 BC, in the final generation before the Hittite conquest.
Yidya
Yidya was the Canaanite ruler of Ashkelon in the 14th century BC, known from his cuneiform letters to the Egyptian pharaoh in the Amarna archive.
Zimredda of Lachish
Zimredda, also known as Zimredda (mayor of Lachish), was mayor of the Canaanite city of Lachish in the mid-14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters.
Zimredda of Sidon
Zimredda, also Zimrida, was king of Sidon in the mid-14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters as the bitter rival of Abimilki, king of Tyre.