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Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Mardīkh
  • geo:35.798073,36.797813
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -23xx / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=29275

Annotations

The royal called G4 found in  the Palce G [2400-2300]  was unearthed badly damaged and without a skeleton.  Paolo Matthie1 dates it to dates  to the reign of king Isar-Damu2 [archive period]. According to Davide Nadali  it was plundered, never used or built as cenotaph3.

 

 

 

References

  1. ↑Paolo Matthie, "The Royal Palace. Functions of the Quarters and the Government of the Chora". In Matthiae, Paolo; Marchetti, Nicolò. Ebla and its Landscape: Early State Formation in the Ancient Near East. Left Coast Press 2013, p. 53
  2. ↑William J. Hamblin. Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC. Holy Warriors at the Dawn of History, Routledge 2006, p. 239.
  3. ↑Davide Nadali, Envisioning the Past Through Memories: How Memory Shaped Ancient Near Eastern Societies, Bloomsbury Publishing 2016, p. 56nn


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 Royal Palace G

Tell Mardikh - palace. https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1982/01/update-on-ebla

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.


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