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Surroundings:

Ebla, Abarsal TreatyEbla Royal Palace GRoyal palace G courtyardEbla, The vizier palace, 2010The western palace Ebla, Remains of North temple of IstharEbla, Remains of North temple of IstharEbla, Remains of North temple of IstharEbla, Remains of North temple of IstharEbla, Remains of North temple of IstharEbla, Remains of North temple of IstharEbla, Remains of North temple of IstharEbla, Remains of North temple of IstharThird Kingdom Royal Graves, EblaEbla, TellRemains of EblaEbla, Jug from theroyal palace GEbla, Remains of a kitchenEbla, Fotograph of archive with tablets at placeRemains of EblaRemains of EblaEbla, Remains of a kitchenEbla, PotteryEbla, Remains of throneroomRemains of EblaEbla, Remains of Amorite GateEbla, Ceramic Aer of a pot, men-shapedEbla, Remains of throneroomRemains of EblaEbla, Remains of a kitchen

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Mardīkh
  • geo:35.797749,36.797684
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2500~ / -2250

Class:

  • Building (other)
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=21309

Annotations

Ebla State Archives contains   ca 1,800 complete clay tablets, 4,700 fragments, and many thousands of minor chips found in the palace archives. Currrently housed in  Aleppo, Damascus, and Idlib.

See:

  1. Paolo Matthiae, Ebla and the early urbanization of Syria in: Joan Aruz, Ronald Wallenfels eds., Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003, pp. 167-168.
  2. Scott G. Beld, William W. Hallo, Piotr Michalowski, the Tablets of Ebla: Concordance and Bibliography, Eisenbrauns, 1984
  3. http://www.ebla.it/escavi__gli_archivi_di_stato.html - The State Archives, Paolo Matthiae
  4. http://virgo.unive.it/eblaonline/cgi-bin/home.cgi - Ebla Digital Archives

Relevant museums

Aleppo, National Museum

Large collection of Bronze Age (a/o Ebla, Mari, Ugarit), Iron Age (Arslan Tash), Hellenistic, and Roman finds.


Nearby

Ebla, Abarsal Treaty

XXIII BC peace treaty.

Ebla, Temple of Resheph

Ebla temple B1. Rashap’s Cult Area with the Deified Royal Ancestors’ Sanctuary.

Hypogeum G4, Ebla

Royal tomb in archive period of Ebla.


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