Ibiranu
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The letter of prince Piha-walwi of Hatti
Hatti
Hatti may refer to*Hatti in Bronze Age Anatolia:**the area of Hattusa, roughly delimited by the Halys bend**the Hattians of the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC**the Hittite Empire of ca 1400 BC–1200 BC...

 to Ibiranu of Ugarit
Ugarit
Ugarit was an ancient port city in the eastern Mediterranean at the Ras Shamra headland near Latakia, Syria. It is located near Minet el-Beida in northern Syria. It is some seven miles north of Laodicea ad Mare and approximately fifty miles east of Cyprus...

 (CTH 110) is a Hittite diplomatic text of the 13th century BC.

Piha-walwi complains to Ibiranu, the ruler of Ugarit, that he had not seek an audience with the Hittite king, presumably Tudhaliya IV
Tudhaliya IV
Tudhaliya IV was a king of the Hittite Empire , and the younger son of Hattusili III. He reigned ca. 1237 BCE–1209 BCE. His mother was called Puduhepa...

, asking him to rectify this immediately and to send messengers with gifts for the king and for Piha-walwi himself.

Ibiranu seems to have complied, as in another letter, the Ugaritic ambassador to Hattusa warns Ibiranu that the Hittite king was offended by the inferior gems he received, recommending that the king expects to be presented with lapis lazuli
Lapis lazuli
Lapis lazuli is a relatively rare semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense blue color....

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