Early Bronze IVB at Ebla. Stratigraphy, chronology, and material culture of the late Early Syrian town and their meaning in the regional context
In the historical-archaeological sequence of Ebla, Early Bronze IVB (ca. 2300-2000 BC) corresponds
to the late Early Syrian period, i.e., the time-span between the destruction of the Early
Bronze IVA (ca. 2450-2300 BC) settlement and societal regeneration in the period of the Amorite
dynasties of the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1600 BC).
While the site’s name is mentioned in texts from southern Mesopotamia, dating from the last
century of the 3rd millennium BC, which attest to Ebla’s role in inter-regional trade and exchange