Zamu

Zamu ( Sumerian za-mu ; Akkadian za (g) mukku , border of the year ; reš šatti , beginning of the year ) denoted the New Year celebrations of the temple deities on the one hand in the Ur III calendar and on the other hand during the Ur III period in the normal calendar New year month. The appointment of the za-mu festivals with regard to the cult calendar was based on the festival months of the respective local temple gods and was in turn linked to the lunar calendar .

Every New Year celebrations of the cult calendar automatically represented the main festival of the place in which the respective city deity owned a temple. There was no uniform appointment setting in Sumer during the original III period . In terms of content, the za-mu festivals were about the annual renewal of power by the deities in association with the ruling king.

See also

• Ezen-maḫ (Nanna)

literature

• Walther Sallaberger : New Year (sfest) A. (based on Sumerian sources) In: Dietz-Otto Edzard u. a .: Real Lexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology , Vol. 9 . de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-017296-8 , pp. 291-294.