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Surroundings:

Qatna - General view of the Royal Palace, (c. 1650-1350 BC )

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Al Mashrafah
  • geo:34.835247,36.863323
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -1350~ / unknown

Class:

  • Workshop or industry
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=49551

Annotations

The archive of Idadda, from the royal palace of Qatna consists of only 55 tablets. Archive containes documents from different regions of Syria as well as palace inventory texts, administrative documents, and juridical texts.   Letters addressed to Idanda, king of Qatna

See:

  1. Peter Pfälzner: Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age, in: Originalveröffentlichung in: A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (eds. D.T. Potts), Oxford 2012, pp. 770-790 - http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/2856/1/Pfaelzner_Levantine%20Kingdoms%202012.pdf
  2.  Th. Richter, Das “Archiv des Idanda”. Bericht über die 2002 in Qatna ge-machten Inschriftenfunde. MDOG135 (2003): pp.167–188.

Nearby

Qatna, Royal Palace [Qatanum]

The Bronze Age Royal palace in Qatna.

Qatna Tomb VII

Late Bronze-Age burial chamber.

Qatna Royal Hypogeum

Late Bronze-Age burial chamber.


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