ABSTRACT
Badre was the first to try to define the main types of central and northern inner Syrian anthropomorphic clay figurines from the Bronze Age, although the identification of chronological reliable groups suffered from the limited documentation available at that time and was based mainly on the Hama materials. Slightly more than 700 clay figurines from Ebla can be dated to the second half of the third millennium BC. They have been found in primary and secondary contexts dating from EB IVA and EB IVB. Animal and anthropomorphic clay figurines were found together, suggesting that no direct relations exist between typological classes/types and spatial distribution. The main concentrations occur in the large Court of Audience, the Administrative Quarter, the Southern Unit, and the North-western Wing of the Central Complex, whereas clay figurines are almost completely absent from the Western Unit of the Central Complex, devoted to food transformation.
