The Expedition of Ebla against Ašdar(um) and the Queen of Ḫarran
2010; De Gruyter; Volume: 100; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1515/za.2010.004
ISSN1613-1150
Autores Tópico(s)Eurasian Exchange Networks
ResumoAmong 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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