Idrimi was een zoon van de koning van Aleppo die ingesteld was door de nieuwe heerser over de regio, Barattarna, de koning van de Mitanni. ###>He was a Hurrianised Semitic son of Ilim-Ilimma I the king of Halab, now Aleppo, who had been possibly deposed by the new regional master, Barattarna or Parshatatar, king of the Mitanni.