Idrimi
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Idrimi 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 in 1939. According to that inscription, he w
Statue of Idrimi in the British Museum.
Tablet with the seal of King Idrimi.
A slave exchange treaty between Idrimi and Pilliya of Kizzuwatna.
ʿApiru
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ʿApiru, also known in the Akkadian version Ḫabiru is a term used in 2nd-millennium BCE texts throughout the Fertile Crescent for a social status of people who were variously described as rebels, outla
Idrimi
…new regional master Barattarna, King of Mitanni. Idrimi probably succeeded in gaining the throne of Alalakh with the assistance of a group known as the Habiru, founding the Kingdom of Mukish as a vassal state to the Kingdom of Mitanni. He also invaded the Hittite territories to the north, resulting in a treaty…
Idrimi of Alalakh