516 Pages
46 Color & 261 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
516 Pages
46 Color & 261 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
516 Pages
46 Color & 261 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In Ebla , Paolo Matthiae presents the results of 47 years of excavations at this fascinating site, providing a detailed account of Ebla’s history and archaeology.
Ebla grew from a small Early Bronze Age settlement into an important trading and political centre, which endured until its final destruction in c. 1600 BC . The destruction of its royal palace c. 2300 BC was particularly significant... Read more
- From Tell Mardikh to Ebla: archaeological exploration
- Ebla and early urbanization in Syria
- Ebla, Mari, Akkad: from city-states to empire
- The Royal Palace in the age of the Archives space and function
- Early Syrian religion, the Red Temple, and the Temple of the Rock
- The State Archives: Economy, Culture, and Society
- Artistic expressions and material culture in the mature Early Syrian period
- The crisis in the Early Syrian world and the archaic Old Syrian renaissance
- From Ebla to Yamkhad: the territorial states of the Amorite Age
- Town planning and architecture in the Old Syrian city
- Old Syrian artistic culture: originality and continuity
- Old Syrian material culture: characteristics and development
- From Ebla to Tell Mardikh: decline of a great urban centre
Biography
Paolo Matthiae is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East at Sapienza University of Rome, and Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome), the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles- Lettres (Paris), the Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna), the Royal Swedish Academy (Stockholm), and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Berlin). From the beginning of excavations at Tell Mardikh in 1964 to the suspension of work in 2010, he was Director of the excavations at Ebla in northern Syria.
