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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... confirmed that the town was Emar (earlier Imar), an emporium that served the Euphrates both upstream and down- stream as well as overland from the Mediterranean and points south.4 Emar had been known mainly from early second-millennium ...
... confirmation or correction by publication of the final excavation report . 18. The nine fragments found in area III probably arrived there as a result of de- struction and disturbance of the temple , not because they were stored there ...
... confirms that his family preceded that of Yaßi-Dagan as kings of Emar. The first witness in RE 34, Yaßi-Rasap (Ya-ßí-dgìr) son of Baola-malik, is linked to neither dynasty. It is not clear whether his priority in the list of wit- nesses ...
... confirmation that a king stands among the witnesses.35 Both AuOrS 1 14 and three of the texts in which Igmil-Dagan appears first men- tion massive payments owed by the city a-na a-ra-na LUGAL. dNIN.URTA and the city of Emar are selling ...
... -mi (line 16; cf. 27:4). The same name is written fBa-la- ki-mi in AuOrS 1 30:3, etc. Further confirmation of the reading Baola for dim/du in the Colophon Number Figure 4a. Diviners in Lexical Text Colophons (Emar 26 Chapter 2.