The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)

goods, and a command post at the entrance. The palace was like a highly complex organism at the heart of the kingdom. It shelter ...

chariots at the expense of water transport) meant that the valley of the Euphrates was no longer a crucial axis in the Middle Ea ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT EBLA
 Frances Pinnock INTRODUCTION T he excavations at Tell Mardikh/Ebla started in 1964 and are still g ...

campaigns towards the Upper Sea, as they called the Mediterranean (Matthiae 1989 a, 2008 a: 108 ). The quality and quantity of d ...

power, with the Royal Palace, a classic multi-function building built up of juxtaposed units with different functions. In the fi ...

— Ebla — building, and for a small square between the temple and the palace (Matthiae 2010a: 112-116). As concerns their plans, ...

— Frances Pinnock — long - 8.30 m long and 10.00 m wide - and has a vestibule of the same size, reaching an overall size of 28.3 ...

As the relative chronology of the two main Eblaic temples of the State Archives Age is clear, it is possible to maintain that th ...

PALACE ARCHITECTURE Palace architecture is represented in the topmost level by the Royal Palace G, whose oldest core was probabl ...

Ebla Ef----------------------Eg- Figure 28.5 General plan of the Royal Palace G, Early Bronze IVA (© Missione Archeologica Itali ...

A residential sector stretched into the Lower Town south of the Royal Palace: it was located outside the perimeter wall of the b ...

comparison with Palace ‘A’ at Kish. The plan of this building is not known in its entirety, and its functions are not fully unde ...

a presumed cult area located nearby, and not yet identified. The building contained not only jars and grinding stones, but also ...

ART AND HANDICRAFT PRODUCTION The furniture of the Royal Palace G survives only in fragments, because the town suffered heavy pi ...

and queen (Pinnock 2008 c). These elements, with the data coming from the cuneiform documents, lead us to believe that, unlike w ...

CONCLUSIONS The Early Syrian culture of Ebla certainly drew inspiration from models of southern Mesopotamian origin, particularl ...

these two areas, it is now possible to start to identify, not models, but rather some common traits, characteristically related ...

to the town economy (Matthiae 1988 ). This territory is clearly identifiable on the base of the distribution of the unified, and ...

REFERENCES Fronzaroli, P. 1993 Archivi Reali di Ebla, Testi – 11. Testi rituali della regalità (Archivio L. 2769 ).Roma: Mission ...

—— 2010 c Early Syrian Palatial Architecture. Some Thoughts About its Unity. In J. Becker, R. Hempelmann, E. Rehm (eds), Kulturl ...