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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... Syria— Emar ( Extinct city ) 3. Religious calendars Syria - Emar ( Extinct city ) I. Title . II . Series . BL1640.F55 2000 299′.2 — dc21 00-048461 CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American ...
... Syrian Setting 150 Six Months in the Emar Ritual Calendar 152 (Zarati) 152 dnin.kur.ra 161 dAn-na 162 Mar-za- h a-ni 165 d A-dama 164 dH al-ma 168 Two Related Texts for Individual Months 173 174 Emar and Ugarit: A Syrian Text Tradition ...
... Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Emar Calendars 196 Definition of Three Emar Calendars 197 Dated Legal Documents: The Tablet Types 198 Dated Legal Documents: Calendar Patterns 203 Calendar Tradition and Innovation 208 The ...
... Syrian Depart- ment of Antiquities at every level, and I would especially like to thank Dr. Sultan Muhesen, Dr. Ali Abou-Assaf, Dr. Adnan Bounni, and Dr. Kassim Toueir at Damascus, and Dr. Wahed Khayata, Mr. Hamido Hammade, and Mr ...
... Syria TCL TDOT TIM TM . UDBD UF Ug 5 VAT VE Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient - Gesellschaft Mémoire de la Délégation Perse Siglum for tablets from Meskene / Emar Materialien zum sumerischen Lexikon Neo - Assyrian ( Akkadian ) Nouvelles ...