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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... Day Feast 68 The Main Event: At the Stones outside the City Walls 76 The Feast for All Emar: The People, the Gods, and the Sassabeyanatu Spirits 78 xi xii xiv 13 48 1 The Anointing of the Stones 82 The Procession of Dagan vii Contents.
... event was evidently not repeated until her death required a successor. 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 ...
... events from local religious life , not restricted to one primary deity and temple cult . Many texts mention rites never previously known , and the documents themselves do not copy familiar templates . They are composed in Akkadian but ...
... events. These records are particularly rich for late third-millennium Ur and early second-mil- lennium Mari.20 ... event, the zukru 'festival' (Sumerian EZEN), celebrated for seven days every seven years at the full moon of a month ...
... event but on one ritual participant , ' the diviner ' ( lúmáß.ßu.gíd.gíd ) . This text records rites for many dei- ties and events , with notable attention given to the human beneficiaries of offer- ings . Several individuals and groups ...