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Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Mardīkh
  • geo:35.798733,36.797066
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=29290

Annotations

The Tomb of the Cistern east of the Tomb of the Princess and almost contemporay,  belongs to the earliest graves in the Royal Hypogeum of the Western Palace. It consits of graves Q79A and Q79B. It was damaged and looted by Hittites. Nevertheless some remains - of equipments - a club, an emblem of  royal power  indicates the royal grave.

Sources:

  1. Lorenzo Nigro, he Eighteenth Century BC Princes of Byblos and Ebla and the Chronology of the Middle Bronze Age in: Interconnections in the Eastern Mediterranean. Lebanon in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Proceedings of the International Symposium – Beirut 2008 (BAAL Hors-Série VI), Beirut 2009, pp. 164-165 - https://www.academia.edu/1096021

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, Western Palace, Tomb of the Lord of the Goats - Immeya To

Ebla, Western Palace, Tomb of the Lord of the Goats

Ebla, Western Palace, Tomb of the Cisterns Q79B

Eblaite royal tomb.

Ebla, Western Palace, Princess Grave [Q78A]

Palace Q. Princess tomb. Ebla


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