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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... Scribal Divisions for the zukru Festival Text 7. The zukru Festival in Outline 8. Supplies for the zukru Festival 9 . Animals for the Consecration of the zukru Festival IO . Emar Texts Related to zukru Celebration II . 17 19 20 27 28 28 ...
... scribal education . There are numerous copies of lexical lists , various com- pendia for divination , and a selection of incantation , ritual , and literary texts from mainly Mesopotamian sources.1 Arnaud has published the Sumerian and ...
... scribal arts ( 520 of 614 ) , along with more than half of the texts for cult rites and administration ( 165 or 276 ) . By contrast , only nine fragments of legal documents were found in area III . Area I , essentially “ room 3 ” at the ...
... scribal arts” refers to the collected body of texts copied for training and reference in the scribal craft and divination. “Application” covers the use of these skills for conduct of law and exchange, correspondence, administration, and ...
... scribal colophons. Zu-Baola and his descendants are our best candidates for superinten- dents of the temple and its archive, because they assume a prominent place in ev- ery category of writing activity. The Diviners as Scribes The Emar ...