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The City of Ebla Supplement The City of Ebla Supplement Sorted by name, year, title Erica Scarpa https://erica-scarpa.github.io/ebla-supplement http://ebda.cnr.it/biblio Zotero library July 14, 2021 Abstract The following reference collection has been automatically generated using Zotero and LATEX and is meant for those who prefer a printed version of the additions to The City of Ebla (2017). For mistakes or omissions, please e-mail me at [email protected]. Reference list Archi, Alfonso. 2021. “Ebla: How Many Years?” NABU 2021/1:1–5. Biga, Maria Giovanna. 2021a. “Some Remarks on Textiles and Gender in the Ebla Texts of the Third Millennium BCE.” In Textiles and Gender in Antiquity: From the Orient to the Mediter- ranean, ed. by Mary Harlow, Cécile Michel, and Louise Quillien, 153–162. 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Biga, Maria Giovanna. 2020. “Becoming a ra-ti-bù in Third Millennium BC Syria at the Time of Ebla.” In The Third Millennium: Studies in Early Mesopotamia and Syria in honor of Walter Sommerfeld and Manfred Krebernik, ed. by Ilya Arkhipov, Leonid Efimovich Kogan, and Natalia V. Koslova, 141–146. Cuneiform Monographs 50. Leiden; Boston: Brill. Bonechi, Marco. 2020a. “Data and Problems Concerning the Intercalary Month in the Ebla Palace G Texts (with Special Focus on MEE 2 39 and 40).” In Dealing with Antiquity: Past, Present & Future: RAI Marburg, ed. by Walter Sommerfeld, 101–164. Alter Orient Und Altes Testament 460. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag. — . 2020b. “Review of Administrative Texts: Allotments of Clothing for the Palace Personnel (Archive L.2769) by Alfonso Archi.” JNES 79 (2): 323–341. — . 2020c. “The Text of the Ebla Administrative Account TM.75.G.1866+10016 (ARET I 2 + ARET IV 23).” Studia Eblaitica 6:143–152. 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Alkhalid, Mohammed. 2019. “Kingship and the Representation of Power in the Urban Pattern of Ebla During the Middle Bronze Age.” In Pearls of the Past: Studies on Near Eastern Art and Archaeology in Honour of Frances Pinnock, ed. by Marta D’Andrea et al., 1–24. Marru 8. Münster: Zaphon. Archi, Alfonso. 2019a. “An Addendum to ARET XX 24.” Studia Eblaitica 5:191–193. — . 2019b. “Ebla and the Cities in Northern Syria.” In Beiträge zur Kenntnis und Deutung al- torientalischer Archivalien: Festschrift für Helmut Freydank zum 80. Geburtstag, ed. by Doris Prechel, Hans Neumann, and Helmut Freydank, 1–17. Dubsar 6. Münster: Zaphon Verlag. — . 2019c. “Minima Eblaitica 24: níg-gú-DU, níg-dug-DU, GIŠ-dug-DU.” NABU 2019/40:65–67. 2 — . 2019d. “Minima Eblaitica 25: The Major Officials of Mari According to the Early Documents of Ebla.” NABU 2019/85:153–155. — . 2019e. “Minima Eblaitica 26: Tuttul in the dual.” NABU 2019/86:155–157. — . 2019f. “The Defeat of Mari and the Fall of Ebla (EB IVA). Focusing on the Philological Data.” Or 88:141–190. — . 2019g. “Wars at the Time of Irkab-Damu, King of Ebla.” Studia Eblaitica 5:1–13. — . 2019h. “Šamagan and the Mules of Ebla. Syrian Gods in Sumerian Disguise.” In Between Syria and the Highlands: Studies in Honor of Giorgio Buccellati & Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, ed. by Stefano Valentini and Guido Guarducci, 38–55. SANEM 3. Roma: Arbor Sapientiae. — . 2019i. ““Palace” at Ebla: An Emic Approach.” In Der Palast im antiken und islamischen Ori- ent: 9. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, 30. März - 1. April 2016, Frankfurt am Main, ed. by Dirk Wicke, 1–33. Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellaschaft 9. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 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