Abstract
Ishtar’s Obelisk is an important Old Syrian votive monument of Ebla, originally erected in the Cult Area of the Temple of Ishtar (Area D), built on the border of the Citadel of Middle Bronze I–II. It was reconstructed from five fragments, of which three are of great size and two much smaller found scattered in the region. As concerns its typology, it had to end with a flat horizontal face. As regards iconography, it was decorated with carved registers on all four faces, most probably four on each face with divine, mythical, and ritual subjects. Its figurative program was similar, but not identical to that of Ishtar’s Stele. Both monuments were certainly dedicated by an unknown king of Ebla in the dynastic sanctuary of the Ishtar Eblaitu on a solemn occasion, between 1850 and 1750 BC circa to celebrate the great goddess of universal fertility and kingship of which she was the patron deity.
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