Royal Administration During the Conquest New Archaeological and Epigraphic Discoveries in the Royal Palace G at Ebla – Tell Mardikh

During the Archaeological Park surveys and excavations campaigns many archaeological results have been obtained which are progressively modifying the EBIVA archaeological landscape of the city. Thanks to these discoveries we can now detail the classical under- standing of the Early Bronze Age Period urban planning (Fig. 2) but, at the same time, integrating the new and the well known archaeological records with the epigraphic sources, put forward some other interpretations of the so-called Eblaite Administrative Process, interpretations that highlight the contextual and local dynamics of both the “Destruction” and “Administration”4. Given the main theme of the rencontre, we have a good opportunity to discuss the evaluation of what happened in the Eblaite administrative praxis before, dur- ing and after the Akkadian conquest. Five new EBIVA areas were identified during the last campaigns