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Eblaite, n. and a.|ˈɛbləaɪt, ˈiːbləaɪt|
[f. Ebla, the ancient name of the city of Tell Mardikh in northern Syria + -ite1.]
A. n.
a. An ancient inhabitant of Ebla.
b. A pre-Phoenician Semitic language examples of which were first discovered by Paolo Matthiae (b. 1940), Italian archaeologist and scholar, at the site of Ebla in 1974.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to these people or their language.
1976Biblical Archeologist XXXIX. 47/2 Only under Naram-Sîn did Akkad recover well enough to defeat the Eblaites and finally to destroy Ebla itself. Ibid. 49/1 The presence in the Eblaite pantheon of some Sumerian deities. 1976N.Y. Post 9 June 60 Scholars have been electrified by the parallels between the language of the tablets and the language of ancient Hebrews. Eblaite..seems to be a West Semitic form unlike Sumerian, Akkadian or any of the other ancient languages known to modern science. 1976Sci. News 21 Aug. 118 One of the most important tablets is one containing a vocabulary of Eblaite and Sumeric words. 1978Bermant & Weitzman Ebla (1979) vii. 160 A number of tablets have been discovered with a bearing on Eblaite law. Ibid. 161 Other Eblaites followed him on the throne of Mari. 1980C. Holme tr. P. Matthiae's Ebla vii. 220 (heading) Value and originality of the Eblaite culture of the third millennium. 1981[see Ugaritic n. and a.]. |