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  • Syrian Arab Republic, Mardīkh
  • geo:35.797749,36.797684
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Ebla, Abarsal Treaty

data access 41132

The State Archives of 2300 BC unearthed by Paolo Matthiae and his team. Among a huge amount of different cuneiform tablets is the earliest known peace treaty between the state-city Ebla and Abarsal an vasal kingdom of Ebla. The form of this treaty rsembles a later popular Hittite treaties - the covenant.

See:

  1. Stephen C. Neff, Justice among Nations, Harvard University Press 2014, p. 14
  2. http://www.ebla.it/escavi__gli_archivi_di_stato.html
  3. Amanda H. Podany, Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East, Oxford University Press 2010, pp.29 ff

Relevant museums

Nearby sites

  • Ebla State Archives
    Tablets from Ebla Tell Mardihk date from the introduction of writing to the end of the third millennium B.C.
  • Ebla, Temple of Resheph
    Ebla temple B1. Rashap’s Cult Area with the Deified Royal Ancestors’ Sanctuary.
  • Hypogeum G4, Ebla
    Royal tomb in archive period of Ebla.
  • Ebla Royal Palace G
    Tell Mardikh - palace. https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1982/01/update-on-ebla

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-04-23) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/41132
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Suggested citation: , E. , Ebla, Abarsal Treaty. https://vici.org/vici/41132, accessed 2026-05-20.