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Yadih-Abu

Yadih-Abu was the third king of the kingdom of Hana on the middle Euphrates, reigning around 1725 BC and named as an adversary in a Babylonian year-name of Samsu-iluna.

Yaggid-Lim

Yaggid-Lim, also known as Iagitlim, was an Amorite ruler of the early 19th century BC, father of Yahdun-Lim of Mari; scholars disagree whether he reigned at Mari or Suprum.

Yagli-El

Yagli-El was a king of Dilmun, the ancient land centered on Bahrain, who ruled around 1700 BCE and was buried in a Royal Mound at A'ali.

Yahdun-Lim

Yahdun-Lim, also written Iahdun-Lim, was an Amorite king of Mari on the middle Euphrates, reigning about 1810 to 1795 BC and known for canal building and wars with Shamshi-Adad I.

Yahu-Bihdi

Yahu-Bihdi, read in Assyrian sources as Yau-bi'di, was the last king of Hamath, who led a revolt against Sargon II and was flayed alive around 720 BC.

Yakareb

Yakareb was a king of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800-1550 BC, known only from two crudely cut scarab seals, one in the Petrie Museum.

Yakbim

Yakbim, also known as Sekhaenre Yakbim, was a Second Intermediate Period king of ancient Egypt, placed first among the Fourteenth Dynasty in Ryholt's reconstruction and attested only by inscribed seals.

Yakinlu (king of Arwad)

Yakinlu, also spelled Yakin-Lu, was king of the island Phoenician city-state of Arwad in the 7th century BC; he submitted to Ashurbanipal of Assyria, sent a daughter to Nineveh, and was succeeded by his son Azibaal.

Yakmeni

Yakmeni is an early figure in the Assyrian King List, number 23 among the ten ancestral kings, listed as son of Yakmesi and father of Yazkur-ilu.

Yakmesi

Yakmesi is the twenty-second ruler on the Assyrian King List, given as son of Ilu-Mer and father of Yakmeni, with no reign length recorded and no attestation outside the list.

Yaksum

Yaksum (Yaksūm), also Yaksum ibn Abraha, was a son of the Ḥimyarite king Abraha who succeeded him in South Arabia with his brother Masrūq until the Sasanian conquest around 570.

Yalburt inscription

The Yalburt inscription is a monumental Hieroglyphic Luwian royal text of the Hittite king Tudhaliya IV, carved on a spring-fed stone pool in Konya Province, Turkey.

Yale culinary tablets

The Yale culinary tablets are four cuneiform tablets in Yale's Babylonian Collection holding the oldest known written recipes: three Old Babylonian tablets from around 1700 BC with 25 stew and broth recipes.

Yamani (king of Ashdod)

Yamani, also known as Iamani, was a usurper who seized the kingship of Ashdod around 712/711 BC and led a revolt against Assyria's Sargon II.

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.

Yanassi

Yanassi, also known as Iannas, is a royal figure of Egypt's Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty, placed by some scholars between Khyan and Apophis in the 16th century BC, though his kingship is disputed.

Yangi

Yangi, also transliterated Janqi or Iangi, is the third of seventeen legendary tent-dwelling kings in the Assyrian King List, placed before 2000 BC by convention.

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.

Yariri

Yariri, also Yariris, was a high-ranking non-royal dignitary, probably a eunuch, who governed the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Karkemish as regent for the child Kamani around 800 BC, and whose inscriptions claim twelve languages and four scripts.

Yarla

Yarla was a Gutian ruler known only from the Sumerian King List, which places him between Ibate and Kurum and assigns him a reign of 3 years.

Yarlagab

Yarlagab, also known as Jarlagab, is a Gutian ruler in the Sumerian King List, placed between Igešauš and Ibate and credited with 15 years of reign.