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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... 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 Turning of Time: Calendrical Issues in Emar Ritual 211 Annual ...
... defined by the location of the finds , jumbled as they are , in a single building and occupational stratum . Taken as a whole , the tablets form an unexpected collection , one that would be impossible to recreate from the written ...
... defined as the two fragments 74303f ( + ) 74303c . Both these and text D ( 74289b ) were found in sector I - SW . Only the small fragent Msk 74146l ( text B ) came from area III ( -SE ) . Figure 2. Find-Spots of Building M 1 Tablets a I ...
... definition. This individual appears always to be a member of the family of a man called Zu-Baola, who passed the title of diviner on to son and grandson, who in turn are called diviners in archive documents and scribal colophons. Zu ...
... defined in some relation to the Mesopota- mian title 'diviner' (barû). The lexical texts were copied by diviners of every level, including the lowest trainees (ì.zu tur and tur.tur; see fig. 4a).42 None of the divination texts, on the ...