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    Alalakh (Tell Atchana; Hittite: Alalaḫ) is an ancient archaeological site approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Antakya (historic Antioch)...
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    modern Turkish province of Hatay with a cadet branch ruling in the city of Alalakh (Land of Mukish). The dynasty was ousted during a short Hittite occupation...
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  • Niqmepa, son of Idrimi, was king of Alalakh in the first half of 15th century BC. Evidence for the reign of King Niqmepa is based on clay cuneiform tablets...
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    Idrimi (category Kings of Alalakh)
    was the king of Alalakh c. 1490–1465 BC, or around 1450 BC. He is known, mainly, from an inscription on his statue found at Alalakh by Leonard Woolley...
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    – Middle chronology ) was a king of Alalakh and son of Hammurabi I of Yamhad. He was granted the city of Alalakh by his brother Abba-El I of Yamhad and...
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  • Parrattarna, ruler ( 000 ) Shaushtatar, Ruler ( 000 ), contemporary of Idrimi of Alalakh Artatama I, Ruler ( 000 ), contemporary of Pharaohs Thutmose IV and Amenhotep...
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    century BC). Among their finds was the inscribed statue of Idrimi, a king of Alalakh c. early 15th century BC. Woolley was one of the first archaeologists to...
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    of the Hyksos at Avaris with those of the area around Byblos, Ugarit, Alalakh and Tell Brak and defines the "spiritual home" of the Hyksos as "in northernmost...
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    Aslihan K., (2021). "Some Thoughts about Middle Bronze Age Alalakh and Ugarit: Reassessing an Alalakh Wall Painting with Archival Data", in: Ougarit, un anniversaire...
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    period. By 1725 BC they are found also in parts of northern Syria, such as Alalakh. The mixed Amorite–Hurrian kingdom of Yamhad is recorded as struggling...
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    coastal territories from Kizzuwatna to Alalakh in the kingdom of Mukish at the mouth of the Orontes. Idrimi of Alalakh, returning from Egyptian exile, could...
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  • the kingdom of Mitanni reached its height of power and prosperity. From Alalakh in the west, Mitanni shared its border with Egypt in northern Syria, approximately...
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    Therefore, most of the knowledge about Yamhad comes from tablets discovered at Alalakh and Mari. The name Yamhad was likely an Amorite tribal name and is used...
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  • Yarim-Lim of Alalakh (reigned c. 1735 BC–c. ? BC), king of Alalakh in Turkey, near Syrian border Yarim-Lim II of Alalakh, possible second king of Alalakh who was...
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  • "similarities in the size and organization of the royal palaces" of Nuzi, Alalakh and Ugarit. Similarly, Finley in the late 1950s did not refer to his system...
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    while the ʿApiru, Idrimi of Alalakh, was the son of a deposed king, and formed a band of ʿApiru to make himself king of Alalakh. What Idrimi shared with...
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  • Haran include ha-ri and ha-ru, from texts of second millennium BC Mari and Alalakh, and ha-ar-ri, from one of the Amarna letters—but their meanings are uncertain...
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    Nanna), Middle Bronze Age remains at Syrian-Turkish sites of Ebla, Mari, Alalakh, Aleppo and Kultepe, Late Bronze Age palaces at Hattusa, Ugarit, Ashur...
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    Yarim-Lim A tablet discovered at Alalakh explains the circumstances which led to the forming of the kingdom of Alalakh; it revealed that Abba-El destroyed...
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  • expanded the Mitanni Empire to include Assyria and Nuzi in the east to Alalakh and Kizzuwatna in the west. He was in conflict with Thutmose III competing...
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    Africa. J1c3d2* J1c3d2a (L65.2/S159.2) Five out 12 male individuals from Alalakh who lived between 1930-1325 BC, belonged to haplogroup J1-P58. One out...
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    incorporated into Hurrian religion, and in Hurrian context was worshiped in Alalakh and various cities in Kizzuwatna. She is also attested in Hurrian texts...
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    is an important ancient Middle Eastern sculpture found at the site of Alalakh by the British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley in 1939, dating from the...
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    well as from cities with sizeable Hurrian populations, such as Ugarit and Alalakh. Hurrian religion forms one of the best attested influences upon Hittite...
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    that the "first certain cuneiform reference" to Canaan is found on the Alalakh statue of King Idrimi (below). A reference to Ammiya being "in the land...
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    Mallowan at Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak in 1935–1938 and from Woolley at Alalakh in the years just before and after the Second World War. Mallowan returned...
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  • beginning of the 2nd millennium BC), notably from Mari and to a lesser extent Alalakh, Tell Harmal and Khafajah. Occasionally, such names are also found in early...
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  • primarily through the Alalakh tablets. He engaged in the selling and buying of cities and villages with his vassal king Ammitakum of Alalakh in order to adjust...
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    Ebla Ugarit Urkesh Bronze Age Akkadian Empire Alashiya Amorite states Alalakh Amurru Andarig Apum First Babylon Third Ebla Ekallatum Emar Kurda Third...
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    harmonized with each other. She is first documented in texts from Kanesh and Alalakh, though her main cult center was Carchemish. She was among the deities...
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