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Eblaite (/ˈɛblə.aɪt, ˈiːblə-/, also
known as
Eblan ISO 639-3), or Palaeosyrian, is an
extinct East
Semitic language used
during the 3rd
millennium BC...
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important centers in the Near East
during the
Early Bronze Age. The
first Eblaite kingdom has been
described as the
first recorded world power. Starting...
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probably located in the
vicinity of the mountains; it was a city of the
Eblaite Empire in the
third millennium BC, and then a v****al
kingdom of the Hittites...
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Pettinato later retracted the
designation and
decided to call it
simply "
Eblaite", the name by
which it is
known today. The
purely phonetic use of Sumerian...
- East
Semitic group is
attested by
three distinct languages, Akkadian,
Eblaite and
possibly Ki****e, all of
which have been long extinct. They were influenced...
- Sumerian, but also used to
write multiple languages in the
region including Eblaite, Hurrian, Elamite, Old
Persian and Hittite. The
influence of
Sumerian on...
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Resheph (also
Reshef and many
other variants, see below;
Eblaite 𒀭𒊏𒊓𒀊, Rašap, Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎌𐎔, ršp,
Egyptian ršpw, Phoenician: 𐤓𐤔𐤐, ršp, Hebrew:...
- connection. However, much of the
initial media excitement about a
supposed Eblaite connection with the Bible,
based on
preliminary guesses and speculations...
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modern scholars to
indicate the head of the
administration in the
first Eblaite kingdom. The
title holder held the
highest position after the king and...
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written Semitic languages after Akkadian.
Recent classifications of the
Eblaite language have
shown that it was an East
Semitic language,
closely related...
