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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... houses at Tell Munbaqa (Ekalte), especially house O, with an entrance on the short wall of the main room. • The temple, altar because in the several main room Munb does aqa not houses prove have that installations Emar's building for ...
... house ” with regard to the phenomenon of archives collected by religious specialists , but does not argue for any close architectural parallel . For basic description of these house archives from Ugarit , see Olof Pedersén , Archives ...
... House of the Gods ” that is men- tioned frequently in the ritual texts . This House of the Gods and an institution named only “ the city ” are suppliers of offerings not provided by the king and the palace , and the diviner also appears ...
... house of the tablet' (é †up-pí) in 270:17. The Hit- tite gods are known from the ritual texts 471–90. The letters 269, 272, and 273 are too badly broken to evaluate properly. Only Emar 267 offers no obvious connection with the diviners ...
... House of the Gods The building that housed the diviner's archive has the form of a modified temple. The main entrance and sanctuary are aligned along one axis with the al- tar, and an alley along the western side appears to lead to an ...