Ebla — Royal Palace G Archive West Wing
Tell Mardikh
Early Bronze IVA (2600–2300 BCE) archive·Early Syrian Eblaite·🇸🇾 Idlib/Aleppo, Tell Mardikh, near Saraqib, Syria
About
About Ebla — Royal Palace G Archive West Wing
Mardikh excavated by Matthiae 1964–, 20,000 tablet fragments, bilingual Sumerian-Eblaite vocabularies and palace colonnade. Recorded context — Period: Early Bronze IVA (2600–2300 BCE) archive; Culture: Early Syrian Eblaite; Field status: excavated; Materials: mudbrick, wood shelves, clay tablets; Condition: ruins — damaged 2010s.
Why it mattersKey Early Syrian Eblaite tell with stratified sequence and regional typology.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Chronology and phasing
- 02Function of enclosure
Theories
- 01Observatory
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 2400 BCE Palace G
- Period
- Early Bronze IVA (2600–2300 BCE) archive
- Culture
- Early Syrian Eblaite
- Purpose
- Royal Palace G archive room with 2000 tablets — oldest Semitic cuneiform library, Eblaite kingdom administration
- Rediscovered
- Modern excavation 1852
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 2400 BCE Palace G
Initial construction / first occupation at Ebla — Royal Palace G Archive West Wing
1990 excavation
Modern rediscovery and scientific excavation of Ebla — Royal Palace G Archive West Wing
On the ground
Structures & features
35.7980° N · 36.7980° E · 430 m · 3 mapped features
- Ebla — Royal Palace G Archive West Wing — Principal Palacepalacepalace at Ebla — Royal Palace G Archive West Wing — hydraulic feature35.7971° N · 36.7990° E
- Ebla — Royal Palace G Archive West Wing — Northern Templetempletemple at Ebla — Royal Palace G Archive West Wing — primary structure35.7963° N · 36.7991° E
- Ebla — Royal Palace G Archive West Wing — Southern Gategategate at Ebla — Royal Palace G Archive West Wing — primary structure35.7976° N · 36.7988° E
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