ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the analysis of storage vessels within the assemblage of Royal Palace G. An overall description of storage vessels from Ebla's Royal Palace G, from both a typological and a functional point of view, since the early 1980s by Stefania Mazzoni in her preliminary classificatory essay of the Palace's ceramic repertoire. Closed shapes such as jars, intended for daily use or for the storage and preservation of solid and liquid products, are largely present in the pottery assemblage of Royal Palace G and pertain to different types, sizes, and wares. At the present state of research, some functional considerations for the storage vessels of Palace G can be outlined with the aid of archaeobotanical analyses and textual sources from Royal Archives in order to reconstruct the socioeconomic organization of the Palace of Ebla and to identify specific kinds and amounts of centralized goods.
