A Hands-Off Administrator? The Absence of the King, but Presence of the Crown Prince, in the Hittite Palace- Temple Administrative Corpus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21407883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James M Burgin (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Institut für Altertumswissenschaften – Lehrstuhl für Altorientalistik Residenzplatz 2, Tor A 97070 Würzburg Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 112-135 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-29 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Die Welt des Orients (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-2547 • E-ISSN: 2196-9019 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.13109/wdor.2022.52.1.112 |
| OpenAlex | W4283707883 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Examination of the Hittite Palace-Temple Administrative Corpus confirms that the Hittite king was generally not involved with the day-to-day administration of the royal household and temple economy at Ḫattuša. However, evidence presented here suggests that the Hittite crown prince played a key role in the same, being specially entrusted with the authorship of “apex genre” of the corpus: the named complex inventories. Since crown princes were in principle kings-in-training, this implies that Hittite kings, at least in the Late New Kingdom period, were experienced in the creation of economic records in the cuneiform script, even if they did not practice this skill from the throne
Ancient history · Art · Crown (dentistry) · Cuneiform · Hittite language · Key (lock) · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Throne · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Computer Science · History · Law · Linguistics and language evolution · Medicine
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |