Ebla

The administrative tablets from Ebla’s Great Archive L.2769 primarily document the activities of the royal family, emphasizing their central role in palace administration. While these records focus on the ruling elite, they also mention numerous other individuals, often from distant regions, whose precise administrative relationships remain ambiguous. Eblaite scribes typically identified people by name and patronymic, occasionally substituting the latter with geographical origins.

68 Rencontre Assyriologique Internaltionale, Leiden

The Ebla archive offers a rare glimpse into ancient record-keeping thanks to detailed excavation data. This paper explores challenges in studying the archive. It proposes solutions for preserving information, digitizing data, and integrating spatial and textual analyses through a dedicated platform.

This paper offers an overview of the digitization process of the spatial data referring to epigraphic findings from L.2769 collected thus far as well as a comprehensive assessment of the findspot registration system.

Egitto e Vicino Oriente, Roma

The Ebla Digital Archives project started in 2007 through a collaboration between Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the National Research Council (CNR).

Of Numbers and Magnitudes. Measure and Value at Presargonic Ebla. Workshop of the Rome research unit of the PRIN 2017 ‘Big DEA’, Roma

Research Seminars of the Subject Group for Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Oriental Studies (EANES), Oxford

This study aims to examine the functions and roles of the royal sons at Ebla during the archival period, taking into account their kinship ties with other members of the royal family.

Some considerations on text mining applied to cuneiform sources

The Great Archive L.2769 contains a significant number of documents that make repeated mentions of the sons of the Eblaite kings, referred to as ‘dumu-nita en’. This note aims to review and update the information available pertaining to the royal sons.

The ‘dam en list’ refers to sections of administrative tablets that mention female members of the Ebla royal family. Since Tonietti’s study in 1989, three new complete lists of dam en have been published, with additional fragmentary lists discovered later. In this note, I provide an updated index of the dam en lists and offer some general remarks.

The objective of this research is to propose a model of Eblaite society by utilizing the data present in the Royal Archives’ documentation. To achieve this, the study employs keywords derived from the Ebla texts that designate various professional categories. Through the application of a sociological and socio-historical methodology, a model is developed that enables an understanding of the levels of interaction and hierarchical structure characterizing different elements within Eblaite society.

Thinking Digital in Cuneiform Studies: Methods, Problems, Perspectives, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

LXIII Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Dealing with Antiquity – Past, Present, and Future, Philipps-Universität, Marburg

This book lists more than 2,600 bibliographical entries referring to books, articles, and digital resources concerned with the ancient city of Ebla (modern Tell Mardikh, Syria, XXIV century BCE). The volume provides a comprehensive collection of philological, archaeological, and historical studies on Ebla from 1965 to present day.

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the field of Assyriology, leading to a renewal of the traditional methods upon which the discipline is built. These advancements range from the development of online databases for cuneiform texts to the incorporation of investigative tools from other disciplines, such as Social Network Analysis.