Ricerc@Sapienza

The possible representation of steles on one seal from the Royal Palace G of EB IVA Ebla is being considered in this contribution. By comparison with the written evidence, an attempt will be made at understanding how successful steles were made, where they were placed, and what their meaning for the visual image of kingship in the culture of the mature Early Syrian Ebla was

While in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia polymaterism was not such a diffused practice, at Ebla, the use to compose figures with different materials, in large, as well as in miniature size images reached a peak, in the skills manifested in the assemblage of the materials, in the wealth of the raw materials employed and in the variety of objects produced.