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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... Saggar (same) • Rasap-abu son of Abi-kapi (Emar 144; RE 14, 52; AuOrS 1 2) (2) The same scribe, Abi-kapi, is also responsible for RE 16, a text with wit- nesses led by Yaßi-Dagan, followed by his son Baola-kabar and familiar associates ...
... Saggar-abu, lúmáß.[ßu.gíd.gíd] kab.zu.[zu] 'student' V–VII, XIII V–VII a. Arnaud assembles all of the scribal colophons for separate presentation as Emar 604. these copyists varied, but it was always defined in some relation to the ...
... (Saggar-abu). For Ipqi-Dagan as a son of Baola-malik, see Emar 225 and 226, and in Emar 201 a man named Himasi-Dagan has to cede his inheritance rights to Zu-Baola's sons by a woman named Dagan-laai. 52. See Emar 275:11 and 13, with ...
... Saggar-abu in re- sponse to an inquiry about the messengers of Baola-qarrad, son of Zu-Baola.57 This Saggar-abu sends three more letters,58 and he turns out to be the oldest son of the diviner Baola-qarrad. Someone named Saggar-abu ...
... Saggar-abu must be the same person, even though there is no evidence for equating d30 with dgìr. He is right on both counts, and there is another solution. Both colophons should be read d ̆ar/Saggar rather than dgìr/Rasap. Msk 74175a is ...