The expedition of Ebla against Ašdar(um) and the queen of Ḫarran
Among the scanty evidence concerning war practices in the Early Dynastic period, the Ebla texts provide a rich source of information for the Syrian area. A new reading of some passages from an annual metal account, based on proposed new interpretations of many of the terms employed therein (among ot...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2010
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Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie
Year: 2010, Volume: 100, Issue: 1, Pages: 56-85 |
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| Summary: | Among the scanty evidence concerning war practices in the Early Dynastic period, the Ebla texts provide a rich source of information for the Syrian area. A new reading of some passages from an annual metal account, based on proposed new interpretations of many of the terms employed therein (among others, tuš.lú×til and šu-du8), enables us to reconstruct the sequence of some important moments of the military expedition against Ašdar(um). The king of Ebla himself seems to have taken part in this expedition – an unusual occurrence in Ebla at the time. Even more remarkably, the queen of Harran, who was the daughter of the previous king of Ebla, seems also to have participated; curiously, the king of Harran, rarely mentioned in the texts, has never to date appeared in the same texts as the much better documented queen. |
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| ISSN: | 1613-1150 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/za.2010.004 |