EAN: 9783447117319

AT THE INTERFACE OF RELIGION AND ADMINISTRATION...

The so-called cult inventory texts report on the state of religious festivals  rites  cult
objects  and cult supplies in a number of provincial towns and villages under Hittite control 
thereby documenting the interaction between the central administration and local settlements.
As such  they do not concern the official state cults  but rather a variety of rites and
customs  which in part preserve local traditions. Because of its nature and size  this corpus
is unique in the ancient Near East  and is relevant to the comparative history of religions and
centre-periphery studies. Within Anatolian studies  the corpus is especially relevant to the
study of historical geography  regional and local Hittite panthea  religious iconography  the
production and logistics of cult supplies  and the participation of village communities in
rites and festivals.Expanding upon a comprehensive edition of 450 cuneiform tablets and the
pertinent database Hittite local cults  the volume provides an in-depth overview of the text
genre  a study of the material  palaeographic  orthographic  and linguistic aspects of the
manuscripts  a thorough investigation into the geography of the local cults as well as into the
local panthea and cult calendar  and finally critical editions of a representative selection of
original texts.

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