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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... identified a public building as a hilani -type pal- ace with Hittite architectural affinities, but he has dropped an earlier claim that house construction follows a Hittite pattern; see BA 58 130–34. The texts are explicit about the ...
... identified as a hilani probably served as an administrative center , but the cache of texts found inside this modest ... identification of this structure as a palace on the location and the frequent references to the royal family in the ...
... identification of the structure as a “temple.” In his monograph on sacred architecture in northern Syria and southeast ... identified as the “priest” of some other shrine (see chapter 2). While most axial temples have thicker walls, Tell ...
... identified individual months by the most prominent religious rites shared by the community during that season and lunar cycle.19 Over time, traditional month names outlasted the priority of the rites first linked to them, while politi ...
... identified without further qualification , appears repeatedly . The organizing principle of the text is the calendar . More than half of the tablet deals with the full moon of a “ first month , ” and the reverse is completed with five ...