A Hands-Off Administrator? The Absence of the King, but Presence of the Crown Prince, in the Hittite Palace- Temple Administrative Corpus
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2022
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Die Welt des Orients
Year: 2022, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 112-135 |
| RelBib Classification: | KBL Near East and North Africa TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-9019 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Die Welt des Orients
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/wdor.2022.52.1.112 |