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October 22, 2005
Two new temples found at Ebla
I haven't studied the finds at Tell Mardikh/Ebla in even a cursory way, but this report is interesting.
"Two new temples were unearthed in Tell Mardikh,-Ebla site by the Italian Archeological Team, Chairman of the Italian team Paolo Matthiae said in lecture yesterday at Damascus national museum.The first temple dates back to the middle bronze age and the second one dates back to the ancient bronze age in the third millennium B.C. It is known as the rock temple because it is built on a big rock, Matthiae added.
The importance of the temple comes from being the oldest temple in Syria with its walls 4 meters high, Matthiae mentioned, indicating to uncovering a group of archaeological potteries and bronze findings [sic].
Ebla was an ancient city located in Northern Syria about 55 km southwest of Aleppo.
It was an important city-state in two periods, first in the late third millennium B.C., then again between 1800 and 1650B.C.The site is known today as tell Mardikh, and it is famous mainly for archives with more than 20,000 cuneiform tablets, dated back from around 2250 B.C, in Sumerian and in Eblaite – a previously unknown Semitic Language similar to Akkadian. [Champress with some minor changes in spelling and grammar]"
It will be interesting to see if Matthiae and his team can identify the deities associated with these temples.
Posted by Duane Smith at October 22, 2005 4:17 PM | Read more on Archaeology |
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