Ebla and its Landscape: Early State Formation in the Ancient Near East - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611322286 ISBN 13: 9781611322286

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

The discovery of 17,000 tablets at the mid-third millennium BC site of Ebla in Syria has revolutionized the study of the ancient Near East. This is the first major English-language volume describing the multidisciplinary archaeological research at Ebla. Using an innovative regional landscape approach, the 29 contributions to this expansive volume examine Ebla in its regional context through lenses of archaeological, textual, archaeobiological, archaeometric, geomorphological, and remote sensing analysis. In doing so, they are able to provide us with a detailed picture of the constituent elements and trajectories of early state development at Ebla, essential to those studying the ancient Near East and to other archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, and linguists. This work was made possible by an IDEAS grant from the European Research Council.

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About the Author

Paolo Matthiae is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East in the Sapienza, University of Rome, and directs its Italian Archaeological Expedition to Syria. He has served as Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences, Vice-Rector for the Cultural Initiatives, and Director of the PhD School of Archaeology at Sapienza. Since 1964 he has led the excavations at Tell Mardikh-Ebla.

Nicolò Marchetti is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna. He directs the archaeological excavations at Karkemish and in the past directed those at Tilmen Höyük, Tasli Geçit Höyük (Turkey), Jericho (Palestine), and participated in the Ebla excavations for 8 seasons. He is the editor of the series OrientLab and of the journal OCNUS, serves on the editorial boards of various scientific journals, and directs the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage (Bologna).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1611322286
• ISBN 13: 9781611322286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 564
• Editor: Matthiae Paolo, Marchetti Nicoló