Chronology of the Kings of Ugarit
c. 1850–1180 BCE




Reign
Names of the Kings
c. 1850
Niqmaddu I ?
c. 1825
Yaqarum I ?
(The sequence of these two early kings may be reversed)
The early kings of Ugarit are known only from a heavily damaged tablet (KTU 1.113). The sequence and chronology are uncertain.
c. 1360
'Ammishtamru I
1360–1330
Niqmaddu II
1330–1324
'Arhalbu
1324–1274
Niqmepa
1274–1240
Amistamru II
1240–?
'Ibiranu
?–1225
Niqmaddu III
1225–1180
'Ammurapi


Select Bibliography


Astour, Michael C. "Ugarit and the Great Powers." In Ugarit in Retrospect: Fifty Years of Ugarit and Ugaritic, edited by G. D. Young, 3–29. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1981.
Curtis, Adrian. Ugarit (Ras Shamra). Cities of the Biblical World. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985.
Drower, Margaret S. "Syria c. 1550-1400 B.C." In The Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. 2, Part 1: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1800—1380 B.C., edited by I. E. S. Edwards et al., 417–525. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1973.
Drower, Margaret S. "Ugarit in the Fourteenth and Thirteenth Centuries B.C." In The Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. 2, Part 2: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c. 1380—1000 B.C., edited by I. E. S. Edwards et al., 130–60. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1975.
Gray, John. The Legacy of Canaan: The Ras Shamra Texts and Their Relevance to the Old Testament. Rev. ed. Vetus Testamentum Supplements 5. Leiden: Brill, 1965.
Kinet, Dirk. Ugarit—Geschichte und Kultur einer Stadt in der Umwelt des Alten Testamentes. Stuttgarter Bibelstudien 104. Stuttgart: Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1981.
Kitchen, Kenneth A. "The King List of Ugarit." Ugarit-Forschungen 9 (1977) 131–42.
Rainey, Anson F. "The Kingdom of Ugarit." Biblical Archaeologist 38 (1965) 102–25. [Reprinted in: Biblical Archaeologist Reader 3, edited by E. F. Campbell Jr. and D. N. Freedman, 76–99. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970.]
Tadmor, Hayim. "The Decline of Empires in Western Asia ca. 1200 B.C.E." In Symposia Celebrating the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the American Schools of Oriental Research, edited by F. M. Cross, 1–14. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1979.
Van Soldt, W. H. "Ugarit: A Second-Millenium Kingdom on the Mediterranean Coast." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, edited by Jack M. Sasson, 2:1255–66. New York: Scribners, 1995.
Yon, Marguerite. "Ugarit: History and Archaeology," (trans. S. Rosoff). In Anchor Bible Dictionary, edited by D. N. Freedman, 6:695–706. New York: Doubleday, 1992.


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