Irkabtum
Sign in to saveIrkabtum (reigned c. Middle 17th century BC - Middle chronology) was the king of Yamhad (Halab), succeeding his father Niqmi-Epuh.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Irkabtum
- Royalty.title
- Great King of Paddan-Adam
- Royalty.reign
- Middle 17th century BC. Middle chronology
- Royalty.predecessor
- Niqmi-Epuh
- Royalty.successor
- Hammurabi II
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Irkabtum (reigned c. Middle 17th century BC - Middle chronology) was the king of Yamhad (Halab), succeeding his father Niqmi-Epuh.
==Reign== Irkabtum is referred to in an old Hittite letter fragment, but he is known 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 the shared borders between them, and he campaigned in the region of Nashtarbi east of the Euphrates river, against the Hurrian princes who rebelled against Yamhad. The campaign was an important one in that it was used to date legal cases.
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