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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... zukru 96 The Old Syrian zukru : Invoking the Chief God 98 Emar's Alternative Tradition 99 The Alternative Text 100 The zukru in Its Annual Format 105 Emar 375 as an Archaic Local Text 109 Mari and the Yaminite zukrum 113 The Essential zukru ...
... zukru : Emar 375 (/448/449) 258 C. The Text for Six Months: Emar 446, Msk 74280a+74291a 268 D. The Texts for ... zukru festival) 294 2. Join of Msk 74287b (formerly Emar 428) to Msk 74298b (Emar 375, the annual zukru ) 294 3. Selected ...
... Text Colophons ( Emar 604 ) 4b . Senior Diviners in Divination Text Colophons ( Emar 604 ) 4c . Scribes in Colophons of Literary Texts ( Emar 604 ) 5 . The Records of the Diviner's Family 6. Scribal Divisions for the zukru Festival Text 7.
... text frameworks. I un- dertook a first probe of Emar rituals in The ... zukru festival (no. 373). Texts from Arnaud's publication (Emar VI/3–4) will ... text 369, with focus on translation and the copying process rather than the execution ...
... texts. Only one text (Emar 373) treats a single event, the zukru 'festival' (Sumerian EZEN), celebrated for seven days every seven years at the full moon of a month called 'the head of the year' (SAG.MU). The zukru festival text also ...