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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... god. They participated in rites for many deities and shrines, and their administrative activity touched an equally ... storm-god, in line 37). In lines 11–12, 65, and 66–67, “the gods” as a group are given seven, three, and seven ...
... storm-god, dnin.urta, “the gods,” Ea, and one more deity whose name is lost due to a break in the tablet.77 As far as the preserved tablet allows us to see, the same offering sequence was repeated at each location. The first two sites ...
... storm- god's temple in chantier E (Emar 43:18); houses in chantier T (93:20) and V (118:11; 122; cf. 128:18); and building M 1 (also 277:2, 7, 9; and perhaps 84. Emar 264:13–17, nindames kaß.ßemes kaß.geßtinmes uduhi.a 181:22). ì.gißmes ...
... god dnin.urta. The zukru festival implies that the bit tukli is part of the temple of dnin.urta when it describes ... storm-god's temple, in the nin.dingir's residence' a-na ká é dim a-na é nin.dingir (369:15). 102. Emar 369:85 and 90 ...
... storm-god and Astart on the western height, and like them, its entrance faces the sunrise. These three temples ... gods of Emar” (604 no. 6). records the foundation of a Nergal shrine by a private The Diviner's Archive 43.