Studia Eblaitica Volume 4: Studies on the Archaeology, History, and Philology of Ancient Syria

The aim of this new international journal is to contribute to developing the study of the interpretation and understanding of the ancient cultures of Syria, remaining as open as possible to the different methodologies and problems that characterize present-day research. Thanks to the generous policy of international collaboration pursued by the cultural authorities of the Syrian Arab Republic, the increase in archaeological research in Syria, particularly from the 1970s on, opened up a series of new perspectives on the study of ancient Syria. The discovery of the Royal Archives of Ebla was decisive in this renaissance, as well as the role that Ebla played in establishing the very foundations of cultural development in ancient Syria. This project originates at a time of serious crisis for Syria, whose plight does not even spare the country's magnificent, thousand-year-old cultural heritage. It is also intended as the strongest of hopes for a not-too-distant future of peace, prosperity, harmony and justice for the whole of the Syrian people. "The aim of this international yearbook is to contribute to the development of the interpretation and understanding of the ancient cultures of Syria. It remains as open as possible to the different methodologies and problems that characterize present-day research. The increase in archaeological research in Syria, particularly from the 1970s on, opened up a series of new perspectives on the study of ancient Syria. The discovery of the Royal Archives of Ebla was decisive in this renaissance, as well as the role that Ebla played in establishing the foundations of cultural development in ancient Syria. Studia Eblaitica is now included in the list of Class A journals of Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research." -- From publisher's website Cover Title Pages Contents MARIA VITTORIA TONIETTI, Classification of the Ebla Language A. VACCA, G. MOUAMAR, M. D'ANDREA, S. LUMSDEN, A Fresh Look at Hama in an Inter-regional Context FRANCES PINNOCK, A New Dress for the Maliktum PAOLO MATTHIAE, The Old Syrian Temple N’s Carved Basin and the Relation between Aleppo and Ebla FEDERICO MANUELLI, Drifting Southward? Tracing Aspects of Cultural Continuity and Change in the late 2nd Millennium BC Syro-Anatolian Region M.G. AMADASI GUZZO, J.A. ZAMORA, The Phoenician Marzeah Short Notes M. BONECHI, On the Ebla Fragments of Sumerian Lexical List MEE 15 40, 41, 42, 43,52, 53 and 61 P. MATTHIAE, An Unidentified Motif of the Old Syrian Glyptic and Temple P2 at Ebla Reviews Arabic Abstracts