Ibbit-Lim

 

Ibbit-Lim is only known to us by a fragmentary basalt torso found in 1968 at Tell Mardīẖ. This piece was the first evidence permitting the identification of Tell Mardīẖ with the ancient city of Ebla, whose location had been lost. The name of Ibbit-Lim, inscribed in cuneiform on the torso, is Amorite, suggesting that the inhabitants of the Third Kingdom of Ebla, of which he was the first known king, were predominantly Amorites, as were most of the inhabitants of Syria at that time.  

Provenance: Ebla. 

Era: circa 1950 BC. 

Substance: basalt. 

Collection of the National Museum of Aleppo.