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  • Syrian Arab Republic, Mardīkh
  • geo:35.798679,36.797306
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Ebla, Western Palace, Princess Grave [Q78A]

data access 29289

The Tomb of the Princess in Western Palace belongs to a young woman died ca 1800 BC. It is the smallest grave and the one not plundered furnished with the jewerly and funerary equipments. It consits of a stepped dromos, partially cut into the bedrock and partly built up of stones and covered with five stone slabs.

Sources:

  1. Paolo Matthiae, "Jugs of the North-Syrian - Cilician and Levantine painted wares from the Middle Bronze II royal tombs at Ebla" in:  Emre, Kutlu; Hrouda, Barthel; Mellink, Machteld; Özgüç, Nimet. Anatolia and the ancient Near East: studies in honor of Tahsin Özgüç. Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi,  Ankara 1989, p. 303
  2. Paolo Matthiae,"New Discoveries at Ebla: The Excavation of the Western Palace and the Royal. Necropolis of the Amorite Period". The Biblical Archaeologist. American Schools of Oriental Research 47, 1984, p. 24
  3. 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. 161-164 - https://www.academia.edu/1096021

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-11-02) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/29289
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Suggested citation: , E. , Ebla, Western Palace, Princess Grave [Q78A]. https://vici.org/vici/29289, accessed 2026-07-11.