Ibiranu

Ibiranu (reigned c. 1235 BC – c. 1225/20 BC) was the sixth king of Ugarit, a city-state in northwestern Syria.^[1]

Ibiranu
King of Ugarit
King of Ugarit
Reign	c. 1230-1220s BC
Predecessor	Ammittamru II
Successor	Niqmaddu III
Died	c. 1220s BC Ugarit?

Reign

Ibiranu reigned between c. 1235 and 1225/20 BC, and was a contemporary of Tudhaliya IV and Arnuwanda III of Hatti. As a vassal state of Hatti the king was answerable to the viceroy at Carchemish.^[2][3][4]

Gordon (1956) suggested Ibiranu meant "horsemen" composed of ibr and the suffix -ân.^[5]

References

Citations

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

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.