The five tablets published here were discovered during the campaigns of
1982 and 1984 in the southern wing of Palace They represent the most
recently discovered epigraphic finds from Ebla. The texts consist of
accounts of goods under the control of the palace, deliveries of jars of
wine, and deliveries of quantities of damp malt. As all of these tablets
were recovered in the same general vicinity, it is suggested that the
administrative bureau responsible for the handling of and accounting for
wine and malt was located in this area. Of particular interest are the
texts that recount the deliveries of wine and malt for they are
typologically without parallel in the central archive. All five of these
documents are datable to the last period of Ebla.