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Ebla

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An ancient city at Tell Mardikh in Syria, known for its third-millennium BCE tablet archive.

Remains of Palace G at Ebla, Tell Mardikh: a photograph of the archaeological site. It provides the archive’s setting and does not independently date every visible building phase
Remains of Palace G at Ebla, Tell Mardikh: a photograph of the archaeological site. It provides the archive’s setting and does not independently date every visible building phaseGianfranco Gazzetti · CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SALicense · Image source

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Ebla lies at Tell Mardikh southwest of Aleppo. Its palace archive preserves a major body of third-millennium BCE cuneiformCuneiformWriting with wedge-shaped signs, developed from Mesopotamian recording traditions and used for several languages from the third millennium BCE.Glossary · Click to read the explanation documents. Personal names contribute to the study of divine vocabulary, but an element in a name does not alone reveal the named deity or reconstruct a complete local religion. [1]

References and notes

  1. Tate Sewell Paulette, Grain Storage and the Moral Economy in Mesopotamia (3000–2000 BC), PhD dissertation, University of Chicago, 2015. Author-posted copy on Academia.edu. P. 83, Ebla: location and palace archive. Not evidence identifying every divine element in personal names. Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 3 · 10 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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  2. Edition 2 · 10 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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