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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... kissu fragment ( N ) and three unidentifiable splinters with festival vocabulary , Emar 389 , 390 , and 404 . 20. Text 375A consists of Msk 74298b + 74287b , with the new join , from I - SW and I - SW + I - SE respectively . Copy C is ...
... kissu festival A 39 lines I-SW + I-SE C 19 lines Und. E 30 lines I-SW F ca. 65 lines I-SW G/395 22 lines “NE” (no area) H 28 lines I-SW J 24 lines I-SE K 69 lines I-SW M 17 lines I-NW Other 371 17+ lines Und. 372 18 lines I-SW 393 ca ...
... kissu festival for Ea; 394:40–44, henpa of oxen; cf. 385:35–36, kissu for Dagan. On the consecration statements, see my Installation, 160, and pp. 87–92 on the diviner in general, with other references. 51. The deposit is listed in Emar ...
... kissu festival set (385:13, 19; 387:12; 388:3, 4), and fragments from related ritual cus- tom (371:4, 6, 12; 395:13; 396:11; 420:4)—all dingirmes except 420:4. new shrine each day, honoring Dagan, the storm-god, dnin.urta, “the 36 Chapter ...
... kissu festivals especially 387:17–25, for Ishara and dNIN. URTA ; and 388:60–69, for the kissu rites together. 7. The exact number is difficult to calculate but may be between 260 and 280, de- pending on how the breaks in Msk 74292a are ...