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Abba-El II

king of Halab (Yamhad)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ15982253 ↗
Source-derived summary

Abba-El II (died c. 1550 BC) was a king of Yamhad who reigned after the withdrawal of the Hittites.

Reign

Abba-El II is known through his Royal Seal used by his descendant Niqmepa, king of Alalakh as a dynastic seal. In the seal he is described as the mighty king, servant of Hadad, beloved of Hadad, devotee of Hadad, which were the titles that the old kings of Yamhad used. While the seal mentions the name of Abba-El II, the king depicted in it could be Abba-El I.

According to prof. Trevor Bryce, Aleppo was restored by Abba-El's father Sarra-Ee; however, other Historians such as Michael C. Astour consider Abba-El II to be the king who restored the kingdom.

Aleppo recovered from the Hittite invasion and expanded its territory to some of its former lands including Alalakh, Niya, and Ama'u.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Abba-El II” as king of Halab (Yamhad). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1550—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Abba-El, king and Halab can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as king of Halab (Yamhad). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15982253. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1550.

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This entry incorporates text from “Abba-El II” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.