Ibiranu Explained

Ibiranu
King of Ugarit
Succession:	King of Ugarit
Reign:	c. 1230-1220s BC
Predecessor:	Ammittamru II
Successor:	Niqmaddu III
Death Place:	Ugarit?

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

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

Bibliography

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

Notes and References

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