The Palm in the civilization of Mesopotamia
Abstract
Iraq is at the forefront of the palm trees in the world, as it was and still is one of the regions famous for the quality of its dates and its abundance in various stages of history. People have known this tree since the earliest eras of settlement in southern Iraq. I wrote later, in the cuneiform script, some instructions that indicate what should be followed to maintain this tree and achieve the greatest benefit from it. When the laws were issued in ancient Iraq, some of its provisions were specific to this tree in order to keep it and organize people to benefit from it. Residents of Wadi Al-Rafidain sanctified the palm tree and were blessed to make the decisions to separate its social conditions under it, and they believed that the time of its existence is old, Jeddah, by way of the reign of the first king chosen by the machine to rule in the land, where he planted it in his palace and at the gate of the city. One of the manifestations of their sacredness of the date palm was the organization of celebrations during the year. Some of its manifestations were decorating the palm tree and surrounding it with metal ribbons. To follow the symbol of the palm tree in the various ancient civilizational stages showed the extent of the cultural influence of Mesopotamia to neighboring areas and many of the ancient world. For example, the decision to judge the problem of the palm tree was a tradition in Mesopotamia civilization that was taken by (Deborah) and the decoration of the palm with metal bars was in celebrations It has continued as a tradition in the subsequent civilizational stages and found a similar in the Arabian Peninsula in the region of Najran during the pre-Islamic era and the raising of the ringworm by hand is a tradition that the people of the ancient world got acquainted with by the Mesopotamian civilization and is still continuing to this day where the ringworm is raised by hand or fixed in prominent locations in the fields And the main roads at events and celebrations. Perhaps among the most prominent of what this study presented was the analysis of the meaning of the technical element (the mark of the corporal - the chevron) or the sign, and for the first time to identify it as a symbol indicating the lobes of the animal horns. And (Al-Hudawiyah), which is by italicized, the artistic element, which was also used as a writing mark (Ankh) in the civilization of the Nile Valley and with whom it was (life).