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UNINA9910456747203321 |
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Fleming Daniel E |
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Time at Emar : The Cultic Calendar and the Rituals from the Diviner's Archive / / Daniel E. Fleming |
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Winona Lake, Ind. : , : Eisenbrauns, , 2000 |
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©2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Mesopotamian civilizations ; ; 11 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-330) and indexes. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Emar and the Question of Time -- Chapter 2. The Diviner’s Archive -- Chapter 3. The Zukru -- Chapter 4. The Annual Cycle -- Chapter 5. Calendrical Time in Ancient Syria -- Appendix. Texts and Translations, with Collation Notes -- Bibliography -- Indexes |
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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. |
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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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UNINA9910782691303321 |
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Autore |
Crandell Doug |
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Pig Boy's wicked bird [[electronic resource] ] : a memoir / / Doug Crandell |
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Chicago, : Chicago Review Press, c2004 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Authors, American - 21st century |
Rural families - Indiana - Wabash Region |
Accident victims - Indiana |
Farm life - Indiana - Wabash Region |
Fingers - Wounds and injuries |
Wabash Region (Ind.) Social life and customs |
Indiana Intellectual life |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Front Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I; 1 Who Is the Real Pig Boy?; 2 When Grandfathers Steal Pigs; 3 Our Lady of Electrical Lights; 4 Chores and Sex Ed; 5 Wicked Birds; 6 Pillow Therapy, Rocks Too; 7 First Soaks During Hee Haw; 8 A Glimpse of Jimmy; 9 And |
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Then There Were Two; 10 Break-Fist at Noon; 11 It's Home and It's Weird; 12 Devil Worshippers; 13 Third-Person Mother Cometh; Part II; 14 Peanut and Other Runts; 15 Your Mother's in the Bicentennial Bathroom; 16 Dot Matrix Bills and the Fourth of July; 17 He's Saying His Runty Good-Byes |
18 Winesburg, Ohio and Homemade Shirts19 Run, Joe, Run; 20 Fear Far from I-465; 21 If Thy Hand Offends Thee, Cut It Off; 22 Taking the Meringue Ridge Back Home; Part III; 23 Colored Glass; 24 Buy These; 25 The Uncle Sam Outfit; 26 Pig Boy on the Lam; 27 Don't Go Parading My Heart Around; 28 Poisoned Heart; 29 Ear Envy; 30 Watching Roots in an Inaugural Blizzard; Epilogue; Acknowledgments |
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This gritty tragicomic memoir is set in one memorable year?1976, the Bicentennial, when Jimmy Carter ran for president and seven-year-old Doug Crandell lost two fingers in a farming accident. More than anything, Doug wants to shed his nickname, Pig Boy, and grow up to be a hog man like his father. His older brother Derrick reads pulp novels to him each night as he soaks his remaining fingers in Epsom salts. His brothers urge him to ?flip the Wicked Bird" any time another child makes fun of his ?lobster-red hand." Doug shares his summer of healing in Wabash, Indiana, with humans and animal |
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