Idanda

Idanda/Idadda
Ruler of Qatna
Reign	c. 1380 BC
Predecessor	Ulašuda?
Issue	Amut-pa-īl
Father	Ulašuda

Idanda was a king of Qatna in the middle of the 14th century BC. An archive of tablets discovered in the royal palace mention him with the name Idanda while in other sources he is mentioned as Idadda. His name is Amorite, and he claimed to be the son of a king named Ulašuda whose position in Qatna is uncertain. His son was named Amut-pa-īl.

References

Sources

• Albright, William F. (1940). "New Light on the History of Western Asia in the Second Millennium B. C. (Continued from the February Number)". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 78. The American Schools of Oriental Research. doi:10.2307/1355381. ISSN 0003-097X. JSTOR 1355381. S2CID 163694829.
• Freu, Jacques (2009). Al-Maqdissi, Michel (ed.). "Qatna et les Hittites". Studia Orontica (in French). 6. la Direction Générale des Antiquités et des Musées de Syrie. OCLC 717465740.
• Richter, Thomas (2005). "Qatna in the Late Bronze Age: Preliminary Remarks". In Owen, David I.; Wilhelm, Gernot (eds.). General Studies and Excavations at Nuzi 11/1. Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians. Vol. 15. CDL Press. ISBN 978-1-883-05389-5. ISSN 1080-9686.
• Roßberger, Elisa (2014). Pfälzner, Peter (ed.). "Things to Remember – Jewellery, Collective Identity and Memory at the Royal Tomb of Qaṭna". Qaṭna Studien Supplementa: Übergreifende und vergleichende Forschungsaktivitäten des Qaṭna-Projekts der Universität Tübingen. 3: Contextualising Grave Inventories in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of a Workshop at the London 7th ICAANE in April 2010 and an International Symposium in Tübingen in November 2010, both Organised by the Tübingen Post-Graduate School „Symbols of the Dead“. Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-10237-7. ISSN 2195-4305.