kingdom · Anatolia and the Levant
Qatna
Origins
Qatna, at Tell el-Mishrifeh, was refounded at the start of the 2nd millennium BCE inside huge square earthen ramparts. Its Amorite kings controlled central Syria and the caravan routes from the Euphrates to the coast, and became the main rivals of Yamhad.
Rule and society
In the Mari era King Ishhi-Addu allied with Shamshi-Adad and married his daughter to Yasmah-Addu. The royal palace held a hypogeum, found unplundered in 2002, with gold, ivory and the bones of generations of the royal family. Later kings left Akkadian archives with many Hurrian words.
Decline and legacy
In the 14th century BCE Qatna lay between the Mitanni Empire, the Egyptian Empire New Kingdom and the Hittite Empire. Its king Akizzi appealed to Egypt in the Amarna letters, but Hittite forces under Suppiluliuma I sacked the city c. 1340 BCE and it never recovered.
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- Qatna was a vassal of Mitanni Empire1500 BCE – 1400 BCE
- Qatna was a vassal of Egyptian Empire New Kingdom1400 BCE – 1345 BCE
- Qatna was conquered by Hittite Empire1340 BCE
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