Ibiranu

Ibiranu
King of Ugarit
King of Ugarit
Reignc. 1230-1220s BC
PredecessorAmmittamru II
SuccessorNiqmaddu III
Diedc. 1220s BC
Ugarit?

Ibiranu (reigned c. 1235 BC – c. 1225/20 BC) was the sixth king of Ugarit, a city-state in northwestern Syria.

Gordon (1956) suggested Ibiranu meant "horsemen" composed of ibr and the suffix -ân.

Reign

Ibiranu was a contemporary with Tudhaliya IV of Hatti. Ibiranu’s decade on the throne highlights the waning coercive power of the late Hittite Empire over its Levantine vassals. His persistent delays, economic evasions, and diplomatic neglect exposed the growing friction between imperial demands and regional vassal autonomy, setting the stage for similar strained relations under his successor, Niqmaddu III.

Hittite relations

As a vassal state of Hatti the king was answerable to the viceroy at Carchemish.

References

Citations

  1. ↑ Watson, 1999, p. 681
  2. ↑ Gordon 1956:128
  3. ↑ Leick, 1999, p. 75
  4. ↑ Bryce, 2003, pp. 215–217
  5. ↑ Watson, 1999, p. 686

Bibliography

  • Gordon, C. H. (1956). Observations on the Akkadian Tablets from Ugarit. Revue d’Assyriologie et d’archéologie Orientale 50:3. 127-133. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23295232
  • Watson, Wilfred G. E. (1999). Handbuch der Orientalistik. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-10988-9.
  • Leick, Gwendolyn (1999). Who's who in the Ancient Near East. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-13230-5.
  • Bryce, Trevor (2003). Letters of the great kings of the ancient Near East: the royal correspondence of the late Bronze Age. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-25857-9.

Further reading