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Kingdom of Mukish

2000 BCE – 1200 BCE (approx.) · capital Alalakh

Mukish, the kingdom of Alalakh in the Amuq plain, best known for King Idrimi, whose statue tells the story of an exiled prince who won back a throne.

Origins

Alalakh, at Tell Atchana near Antakya, was a town of the fertile Amuq plain by the early 2nd millennium BCE. In the 18th century BCE Abba-El of Yamhad granted it to his brother Yarim-Lim, making it a dependent kingdom of Aleppo. Leonard Woolley's excavations from 1937 recovered palaces and archives from this period.

Rule and society

Alalakh's palace archives record a society of nobles who owned chariots, free farmers and dependent labourers, written in Akkadian with many Hurrian names. After a Hittite destruction c. 1600 BCE, Idrimi, a refugee prince from Aleppo, took the city and ruled Mukish as a vassal of the Mitanni Empire, as his inscribed statue relates.

Decline and legacy

Suppiluliuma I of the Hittite Empire conquered Mukish in the 14th century BCE and gave some of its land to Ugarit. Alalakh was abandoned around 1200 BCE, during the collapse of the Late Bronze Age, and its region later formed part of Patina.

Connections (3)

  • Kingdom of Mukish was a vassal of Yamhad1750 BCE – 1600 BCE
  • Kingdom of Mukish was a vassal of Mitanni Empire1500 BCE – 1350 BCE
  • Kingdom of Mukish was conquered by Hittite Empire1350 BCE

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