Inherited Space – Third Millennium Political and Cultural Landscape

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

María Giovanna Biga

Published:

2014

The third millennium political and cultural landscape of Syria and Upper Mesopotamia, territories where the state of Mittani ruled from the 16th century BC, was little known until just over thirty years ago.This was because very few centres had been excavated and, due to the scarcity of epigraphic and archaeological data, its history was hardly known.Beginning in the early eighties our knowledge increased enormously, thanks to the excavations in the numerous tells of Syrian Jazirah and to the discoveries of the Ebla, Tall Beydar and Tall Mozan written sources. 1 The geographical horizon of the Ebla texts is wide; they acquaint us with the political and cultural situation in the vast region of Syria and Upper Mesopotamia in the EDIIIb period of the third millennium.* Universtà di Roma, La Sapienza.I would like to thank the organizers of this Topoi workshop for the wonderful way in which they organized the symposium.It was very important to have the opportunity to know all the texts of the participants before the workshop to prepare for the discussion, which was very fruitful and from which I learned a lot.The following abbreviations are used: ARET = Archivi Reali di Ebla.Testi; ARES = Archivi Reali di Ebla.Studi; MEE=Materiali Epigrafici di Ebla. 1 For these regions during the Akkadian period and that of the Third Dynasty of Ur see the exhaustive article by Sallaberger 2007, 417-456.I will just add some observations on Syria and Upper Mesopotamia during ED IIIb, especially …

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