Building in stone and mudbrick. The monumental architecture of Ebla in Middle Bronze Age I-II
The contribution deals with the evidence for ashlar masonry from Ebla (modern Tell Mardikh), in north inner Syria. The city first flourished between 2500 and 2300 BC, the ‘first Ebla’, in the early and mature Early Syrian period (EBA IVA). In 2300 BC it was destroyed by Sargon of Akkad, or as a consequence of this king’s deeds in Northern Syria. Ebla was almost immediately reconstructed and enjoyed a second period of relative prosperity, the ‘second Ebla’, in the late Early Syrian period (EBA IVB).