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Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Mardīkh
  • geo:35.797691,36.79731
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2000~ / -1600~

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=29268

Annotations

"The Lower Town West, in relation with the Western Palace, one second cult area stood, including Reshap’s Temple (Area B), the god of death, plague and of the Netherworld, and the Royal Deified Ancestors’ Temple. Rashap’s Temple had also one cella, and was oriented to the South, but the Sanctuary devoted to the cult for the deified royal ancestors had a central hall for communal meals, and some peripheral cellas with small altars, meant to host small cult statues, usually made of bronze covered with gold leaf, representing deceased kings ascended among the gods"1.

According to M. M. Münnich the identification of the temple as Reshep temple is unfounded2.

  1. Maciej M. Münnich (2013). The God Resheph in the Ancient Near East. 
  2. Paolo Matthiae, http://www.ebla.it/escavi__i_templi_paleosiriani.html

References

  1. ↑Paolo Matthiae, http://www.ebla.it/escavi__i_templi_paleosiriani.html
  2. ↑M>M. Munich 2013, p. 64 ff


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 State Archives

Tablets from Ebla Tell Mardihk date from the introduction of writing to the end of the third millennium B.C.

Ebla, Abarsal Treaty

XXIII BC peace treaty.

Ebla, Dead Kings Sanctuary

Ebla, Dead Kings Sanctuary


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