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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... tion of the tablets yielded significant progress in reading the rituals, but I have placed my new editions in an appendix in order to minimize obstacles to follow- ing a discussion that is already technical.27 For the same reason, I ...
... tion of legal documents. The tablets from the Yaß i-Dagan dynasty are written in a characteristically local style across the shorter dimension of the tablet, with lengthy witness lists frequently concluded by the scribe's own name ...
... tion massive payments owed by the city a-na a-ra-na LUGAL. dNIN.URTA and the city of Emar are selling land in AuOrS 1 14 to raise funds toward a sum of 30,000 shekels of silver and 700 of gold (lines 19–26), while the later texts seem ...
... tion. The archive does, however, give prime place to an Emar official identified as a “diviner” and who also bears the standard Mesopotamian title barû (most of- ten spelled lú ̆al or lúmáß.ßu.gíd.gíd). Although other diviners are named ...
... tion ” is said to be recorded in the month of dUr - da , which is not familiar from and lúmáš.ŠU.GÍD.GÍD refer to the broader ritual responsibilities that accompany the old local role . The " Silbenvokabular " Emar 603 translates ì - zu ...