Ebla (Tel Mardikh)
2900-1900 BCE
History
- Mardikh IIA
- ca. 2900-2350 BCE
- Settlement increases in size
- Building levels in south of acropolis
- Control of trade routes
- Exchange of
- Timber
- Copper
- Silver
- Important cloth industry at Ebla
- Mardikh IIB.1
- ca. 2400-2250 BCE
- Reached peak
- Economy
- Expand textile industry
- Imports found
- Political structure
- Cultural
- City 50 hectares
- City destroyed
- Sargon or Narim-Sin
- Ibbi-Zikir was king
- Mardikh IIB2
- ca. 2250-1900 BCE
- Poorer and smaller settlement
- Political power shifts to city of Urshu
Site of Ebla
- Covered 50 hectares (124 acres)
- Estimated population 30,000
- Only a small portion of the site excavated
- Palace excavated for this period
- Palace
- Early Bronze Age, ca. 2400-2250 BCE
- Covers much of the acropolis
- Three wings identified
- Central complex in southern area
- Administrative part
- Southern quarter
- Administrative area
- Stairs to lower part
- Audience court
- Colonnaded
- Throne area on platform
- Center of commercial and administrative activity
- Archives