:Ibiranu
{{Short description|King of Ugarit}}
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| name = Ibiranu
| title = King of Ugarit
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|succession= King of Ugarit
| reign = c. 1230-1220s BC
| predecessor = Ammittamru II
| successor = Niqmaddu III
|spouse=
|issue=
|death_date = {{circa|1220s BC}}
|death_place = Ugarit?
|}}
{{Ugarit}}
Ibiranu (reigned {{circa}} 1235 BC – {{circa}} 1225/20 BC) was the sixth king of Ugarit, a city-state in northwestern Syria.Watson, 1999, p. 681
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.Leick, 1999, p. 75Bryce, 2003, pp. 215–217Watson, 1999, p. 686
Gordon (1956) suggested Ibiranu meant "horsemen" composed of ibr and the suffix -ân.Gordon 1956:128
References
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- {{cite book |title=Observations on the Akkadian Tablets from Ugarit |last=Gordon |first=C. H. |year= 1956 |publisher= Revue d’Assyriologie et d’archéologie Orientale 50:3. 127-133 }}
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23295232 - {{cite book |title=Handbuch der Orientalistik |last=Watson |first=Wilfred G. E. |year= 1999 |publisher= BRILL|isbn= 978-90-04-10988-9 }}
- {{cite book |title=Who's who in the Ancient Near East |last= Leick|first=Gwendolyn |year=1999 |publisher=Routledge |isbn= 978-0-415-13230-5}}
- {{cite book |title=Letters of the great kings of the ancient Near East: the royal correspondence of the late Bronze Age |last=Bryce |first= Trevor|year=2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn= 978-0-415-25857-9 }}
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Category:13th-century BC deaths