Emar Saharsubbu

The Emar Saharšubbû tablet comes from the city of Emar, a Late Bronze Age town on the Euphrates River in what is now northern Syria. The text preserves a ritual meant to deal with impurity or misfortune, using spoken formulas and symbolic actions to remove danger from a person or household. It gives us a rare look at how people in this region understood illness, guilt, and ritual repair in everyday life, outside royal or temple settings.