ABSTRACT
The finding of the Ebla Archives, however, have enabled us to form a picture of religious phenomena at Ebla and in vast regions of Syria in the third quarter of the third millennium bc; considering the remoteness of the period under investigation, the picture is remarkably comprehensive. At the head of the Eblaite pantheon in the era of the Archives was the god Kura, who is also the most perplexing divinity to appear in the written documents of the third quarter of the third millennium bc. It was long believed that Kura had at some point vanished, perhaps after the destruction of Ebla at the hands of Sargon, and not only from the city over which he had presided and the dynasty which he had protected, but also from the Syrian region at large, unlike other gods and goddesses of the pantheon.
