Ebla: Crafts and power in an emergent state of third millennium BC Syria

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 173-191

  Mazzoni, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CRAFT PRODUCTION; GOODS EXCHANGE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; EBLA; EURASIA; HALAB; MIDDLE EAST; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

EID: 0041638299     PISSN: 09527648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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