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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... officials such as the ugula.kalam.ma Mutri-Te ssub (see G. Beck- man, “Hittite Administration in Syria in the Light of the Texts from Hattusa, Ugarit, and Emar,” in New Horizons in the Study of Ancient Syria [ed. Mark W. Chavalas and ...
... Officials in the Ancient Near East (ed. Kazuko Watanabe; Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1999) 188–200; Joan Westenholz et al., Emar Tablets from the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem; M. Yabroudi, “Une tablette d'Emar au Musée Nationale de ...
... official named Alziyamuwa . The legal documents in- clude real estate sales ( 137–75 ) , wills ( 176–98 ) , and other financial and family arrange- ments ( 252–57 ; cf. 227–51 fragments ) . Texts 199–226 include all types and will be ...
... Officials in the Ancient Near East [ed. Kazuko Wa- tanabe; Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1999] 180) offers an independent list of all texts pro- duced under this royal dynasty (table 5). 9. See RE (p. xii) for a sketch of the dynasty that ...
... official scribes, and some of them suggest the existence of an earlier dynasty (see below). The tablets from Carchemish are composed in the Syro-Hittite style, and a fourth point of origin is suggested by texts that are in the same ...