Prosopography

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.

From Names to Persons, from Persons to Society: Case Studies from Hatti, Babylonia and Assyria, Torino

This paper studies interactions in Kassite Babylonia using a prosopographical database to analyze actors’ roles based on their activities and interactions.

This paper examines the life and administrative role of Ninurta-zākir-šumi during the Middle Kassite period, using newly discovered tablets to provide a more detailed picture of his activities in the Nippur region. By reconstructing his family lineage, the paper also connects him to the influential House of Enlil-kidinnī. This research contributes to a deeper understanding of his role in managing resources in the Nippur countryside.

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

The project aims to investigate the management of primary resources in Kassite Babylonia (XIV-XIII cent. BC) through a prosopographic study of individuals and social groups that appear in contemporary cuneiform administrative documents.

Egitto e Vicino Oriente, Roma

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.

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.

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