LEADER 04500oam 22006974a 450 001 9910781311203321 005 20211004152647.0 010 $a1-57506-522-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575065229 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039523 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000647927 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12260971 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000647927 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10594299 035 $a(PQKB)11592923 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155562 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10483410 035 $a(OCoLC)922991683 035 $a(DE-B1597)584523 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575065229 035 $a(OCoLC)747412061 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_80887 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155562 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039523 100 $a20000920d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTime at Emar$eThe Cultic Calendar and the Rituals from the Diviner's Archive /$fDaniel E. Fleming 210 1$aWinona Lake, Ind. :$cEisenbrauns,$d2000. 210 4$dİ2000. 215 $axvi, 352 p. $cill 225 0 $aMesopotamian civilizations ;$v11 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-57506-044-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 312-330) and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Figures -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tChapter 1. Emar and the Question of Time -- $tChapter 2. The Diviner?s Archive -- $tChapter 3. The Zukru -- $tChapter 4. The Annual Cycle -- $tChapter 5. Calendrical Time in Ancient Syria -- $tAppendix. Texts and Translations, with Collation Notes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndexes 330 $aThe recent large-scale watershed projects in northern Syria, where the ancient city of Emar was located, have brought this area to light, thanks to salvage operation excavations before the area was submerged. Excavations at Meskeneh-Qadimeh on the great bend of the Euphrates River revealed this large town, which had been built in the late 14th century and then destroyed violently at the beginning of the 12th, at the end of the Bronze Age. In the town of Emar, ritual tablets were discovered in a temple that are demonstrated to have been recorded by the supervisor of the local cult, who was called the ?diviner.? This religious leader also operated a significant writing center, which focused on both administering local ritual and fostering competence in Mesopotamian lore. An archaic local calendar can be distinguished from other calendars in use at Emar, both foreign and local. A second, overlapping calendar emanated from the palace and represented a rising political force in some tension with rooted local institutions. The archaic local calendar can be partially reconstructed from one ritual text that outlines the rites performed during a period of six months.The main public rite of Emar?s religious calendar was the zukru festival. This event was celebrated in a simplified annual ritual and in a more elaborate version of the ritual for seven days during every seventh year, probably serving as a pledge of loyalty to the chief god, Dagan. The Emar ritual calendar was native, in spite of various levels of outside influence, and thus offers important evidence for ancient Syrian culture. These texts are thus important for ancient Near Eastern cultic and ritual studies. Fleming?s comprehensive study lays the basic groundwork for all future study of the ritual and makes a major contribution to the study of ancient Syria. 410 0$aMesopotamian civilizations ;$v11. 606 $aReligious calendars$xSyria$xEmar (Extinct city) 606 $aReligious calendars$zSyria$zEmar (Extinct city) 606 $aRites and ceremonies$xSyria$xEmar (Extinct city) 606 $aRites and ceremonies$zSyria$zEmar (Extinct city) 606 $aHISTORY / Ancient / General$2bisacsh 607 $aEmar (Extinct city)$xReligion 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aReligious calendars$xSyria$xEmar (Extinct city). 615 0$aReligious calendars 615 0$aRites and ceremonies$xSyria$xEmar (Extinct city). 615 0$aRites and ceremonies 615 7$aHISTORY / Ancient / General. 676 $a299/.2 700 $aFleming$b Daniel E$0931615 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781311203321 996 $aTime at Emar$93672411 997 $aUNINA