Time at Emar: The Cultic Calendar and the Rituals from the Diviner's ArchiveEisenbrauns, 2000 - 352 من الصفحات The recent large-scale watershed projects in northern Syria, where the ancient city of Emar was located, have brought this area to light, thanks to salvage operation excavations before the area was submerged. Excavations at Meskeneh-Qadimeh on the great bend of the Euphrates River revealed this large town, which had been built in the late 14th century and then destroyed violently at the beginning of the 12th, at the end of the Bronze Age. In the town of Emar, ritual tablets were discovered in a temple that are demonstrated to have been recorded by the supervisor of the local cult, who was called the "diviner." This religious leader also operated a significant writing center, which focused on both administering local ritual and fostering competence in Mesopotamian lore. An archaic local calendar can be distinguished from other calendars in use at Emar, both foreign and local. A second, overlapping calendar emanated from the palace and represented a rising political force in some tension with rooted local institutions. The archaic local calendar can be partially reconstructed from one ritual text that outlines the rites performed during a period of six months. The main public rite of Emar's religious calendar was the zukru festival. This event was celebrated in a simplified annual ritual and in a more elaborate version of the ritual for seven days during every seventh year, probably serving as a pledge of loyalty to the chief god, Dagan. The Emar ritual calendar was native, in spite of various levels of outside influence, and thus offers important evidence for ancient Syrian culture. These texts are thus important for ancient Near Eastern cultic and ritual studies. Fleming's comprehensive study lays the basic groundwork for all future study of the ritual and makes a major contribution to the study of ancient Syria. |
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... sag), which lists five sons, the last being den-ur.sa[g] (SMEA 30, no. 7:4). This should be the same son who writes to his father the diviner in Emar 265:4–5, there rendered mdim-ur.sag ... 15) or lúmáß.ßu.gíd.gíd (nos. 2.2; 8), sometimes ...
... sag and dim-ma-lik, because the Hittite hieroglyphic equivalents cannot be ... 15; 91:10, etc.; 276:5 for d30-ta-lih. Only in the astrological omen text ... 15, 16–19. The clause in lines 18–19 reads ù sum-ma md30-a-bu ba.ug6 ù mdim-ma ...
... sag son of Zu-Ba-la lú ̆al (lines 12–13) buys a garden. The same man buys two kier-ße-tu 4 properties. Puzezu enters the service of dim-ur.sag son of Zu-Baola (lines 2, 7, 8) dim-ur.sag son of Zu-Baola (lines 6–7), diviner (lú ̆al, line 15) ...
... sag.mu , year 7 After offerings to Dagan, on the 15th of sag.mu , year 7 After offerings (to d nin.urta ), same date After offerings to Sassabetu, same date After offerings to palace deities, same date (Bottom of column I) Closes the 15th ...
... 15th days of the month itiSAG.MU in the seventh year demon- strate the parallel: 38–39 i-na s a-ni-ti mu.kám ezenzu ... sag.mu (line 5). Offerings for the zukru proper culminate in a seven-day feast that must begin after the 15th of sag ...