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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... Emar's Alternative Tradition 99 The Alternative Text 100 The zukru in Its Annual Format 105 Emar 375 as an Archaic Local Text 109 Mari and the Yaminite zukrum 113 The Essential zukru : A Spoken Offering 121 The zukru and the Axes of the ...
... Emar Texts Related to zukru Celebration II . 17 19 20 27 28 28 33 51 55 58 66 99 ΙΟΙ 148 151 176 179 16. The Unnamed Month ( Halma / Hiyar ) in Outline .. 191 17 . 18 . Emar's Local Calendars , Listed by Primary Institutional ...
... Emar's collection includes several large tablets for rites that were observed on a more regular basis, linked to the calendar. In spite of the fragmentary record, these offer an unusual opportunity to reconstruct part of the seasonal ...
... Emar falls into the second category. Excavations at Meskeneh-Qadimeh on the great bend of the Euphrates River revealed ... Emar's cuneiform texts are contemporary with those from Ugarit, another Hit- tite vassal, as well as with the bulk ...
... Emar's king either occupied a surprisingly small palace at one of the two dominant heights of the city mound or could only build a larger structure in a less impressive location that has not yet been discovered.7 8 The more striking ...