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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... Six Months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 The Orientation of the Text 143 The Tablet 143 The Calendar 144 The Season 145 The City and the Diviner 146 The Syrian Setting 150 Six Months in the Emar Ritual ...
... Months: Emar 446, Msk 74280a+74291a 268 D. The Texts for Individual Months: Emar 452, Msk 74146b; and Emar 463, Msk ... six months, Emar 446 303 6. Selected collations for the text for the month of Abî, Emar 452 307 295 7. Selected ...
... Six Months Processional Rites in the Text for Six Months 14. The Month of Abî in Outline 15. Days of the Month Observed in the Emar Ritual Calendar I. Emar Palace Scribes 2. Find - Spots of Building M , Tablets 3. Principal Festival ...
... month , ” and the reverse is completed with five named months , apparently in sequence ( I will sometimes refer to this tablet and text in this book as “ the text for six months ” ) . Although other texts contribute valuable evidence ...
... month names show up occasionally in administrative and legal documents , but the framework for interpretation still ... six months , and the main evidence for parallel calendars comes from correlations between rites from separate ritual ...