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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... Ritual Calendar 152 (Zarati) 152 dnin.kur.ra 161 dAn-na 162 Mar-za- h a-ni 165 d A-dama 164 dH al-ma 168 Two Related Texts for Individual Months 173 174 Emar and Ugarit: A Syrian Text Tradition The Month of Abî 175 The Text and the ...
... Ritual 211 Annual Ritual and the Seasons 211 Intercalation: The Problem of Seasonal Adjustment in a Lunar Calendar 214 The Nature of Ritual Time 218 Emar in the Ancient Near East 222 Emar and Early Urban Society 222 Emar in Syria 225 ...
... texts are the rituals, which present local practice in novel text frameworks. I un- dertook a first probe of Emar ... ritual in a Syrian city. The ritual demarcation of stages in the year was the foundation of relations between the ...
... ritual and from unfamiliar Ugarit, Mesopotamia, religious fea- and Hatti ... texts should attract specialists from other areas—not only Syrian history ... Ritual. Archive. and. the. Calendar. Texts. The communities of ancient Mesopotamia and ...
... texts that contain a more expanded description of procedure, in contrast to the vast numbers of Anatolian rituals in the texts found at Hattusa.21 Ugarit has pro- duced a much smaller collection of such ritual texts, which also were ...