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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... king either occupied a surprisingly small palace at one of the two dominant heights of the city mound or could only build a larger structure in a less impressive location that has not yet been discovered.7 8 The more striking finds from ...
... king , and this temple was not an arm of palace administration . Although the large majority of Emar texts come from this building , the exca- vations produced more than one hundred tablets from other sites ( Emar 1–136 ) . Numerous ...
... king, in particular contrast to Ebla, Mari, and Ugarit. This distance allows a more direct view of other interests. Some aspects of society and religion that appear in this setting may reflect very old alternatives to domination by kings ...
... king and the palace , and the diviner also appears to serve a domain outside of direct royal ad- ministration . Emar's largest archive reflects activities with some claim to repre- sent the entire city but they also remain separate from ...
... king , appear in Laroche , “ Documents hittites et hourrites , ” 54 ( no . 1 ) , and A. Hagenbuchner , Die Korrespondenz der Hethiter ( Texte der Hethiter 16 ; Heidelberg : Carl Winter , 1989 ) 40–44 . Masamichi Yamada ( “ The Family of ...