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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... lines Und. 369C 38 lines, large tablet I-SW 369D 34 lines II-NE masaartu installation 370 117+ lines, large tablet I-SW zukru festival 373+376 200+ lines, large tablet I-SW + I-SE, I-SW 374 21 lines I-SW + I-SE kissu festival A 39 lines ...
... line 3 for the same person, and we should probably correct to d30 throughout. A similar correction probably improves ... lines 18–19 reads ù sum-ma md30-a-bu ba.ug6 ù mdim-ma-lik lú ̆al sa dingirmes su-ú-ut 'If Saggar-abu dies, then it ...
... lines 1, and 7–8) and 252 (see lines 1–2, 5, and 9). For extensive discussion of all of the Hittite officials with responsibilities at Emar under the titles dumu lugal ('Son of the King') and lúugula. kalam.ma, see Yamada, “The 'Chiefs ...
... (lines 49–50). Zu-Ba-la lú ̆al (line 4) concludes a settlement with the children of a second wife of fTar-ßí-pí (line 5, etc.). Two children are taken into the household of Ib-ni-dkur, son of Zu-Ba-la lú ̆al (line 2). mdim-ur.sag son of ...
... line 37). In lines 11–12, 65, and 66–67, “the gods” as a group are given seven, three, and seven servings of the naptanu bread, rather than the “one each” appropriate to one 'meal' (naptanu) for individual gods and human partici- pants ...