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Thorny Geopolitical Problems in the Palace G Archives. The Ebla Southern Horizon, Part One: the Middle Orontes Basin

2016; Institut français du Proche-Orient; Issue: IV Linguagem: Inglês

10.4000/syria.4985

2076-8435

Marco Bonechi,

Ancient Egypt and Archaeology

The analysis of 169 attestations of the Middle Orontes toponyms Neʾayu, Tunep and Ḥamāt mentioned in the Palace G Ebla texts leads to a discussion of, among others, the following topics: personal and divine names; ritual activities, divine paraphernalia and religious landscape; political events concerning inter alia Ḥamāt, Armi and Nabu; size, inner articulation and borders of the kingdom of Ebla (with the Middle Orontes as frontier); Ib-rí-um's family; military leaders; various economic matters (juridical texts dealing with agricultural land; mules wintering along the Orontes; drainage activities possibly around the Matkh Lake; Mari merchants in a kārum at Tunep; cutting and trade of timber); speculations on the 3rd Mill. name of the Orontes.