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Location

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Mardīkh
  • geo:35.797749,36.797684
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • -2500~ / -2250

Classification

  • building
  • Visible

Ebla State Archives

data access 21309

Ebla State Archives contains   ca 1,800 complete clay tablets, 4,700 fragments, and many thousands of minor chips found in the palace archives. Currrently housed in  Aleppo, Damascus, and Idlib.

See:

  1. Paolo Matthiae, Ebla and the early urbanization of Syria in: Joan Aruz, Ronald Wallenfels eds., Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003, pp. 167-168.
  2. Scott G. Beld, William W. Hallo, Piotr Michalowski, the Tablets of Ebla: Concordance and Bibliography, Eisenbrauns, 1984
  3. http://www.ebla.it/escavi__gli_archivi_di_stato.html - The State Archives, Paolo Matthiae
  4. http://virgo.unive.it/eblaonline/cgi-bin/home.cgi - Ebla Digital Archives

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2015-07-14) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/21309
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: , E. , Ebla State Archives. https://vici.org/vici/21309, accessed 2026-07-01.