Peter Pfälzner - Jochen Schmid, Der Königspalast von Qaṭna. Teil I: Chronologie, Grundriss, Baugeschichte, Bautechniken, mit Beiträgen von Heike Dohmann-Pfälzner, Eva Geith, Tulip Abd-el Hay, Tina Köster, Simone Riehl, Katleen Deckers, Judit Zöldföldi, Fa

“Qatna Studien”系列的目的是公布德国和叙利亚在Qatna挖掘的所有结果，并展示在那里发现的完整材料。第五卷是关于皇宫建筑和地层的五卷中的第一卷。它包含了对这座建筑的年表、建筑布局、建筑历史和建筑技术的总结和结束性观察，因此构成了以下卷的基础，这些卷将讨论这座公共建筑的单个部分。因此，第5卷在Qatna挖掘项目的出版方案中具有中心地位。这一卷的内容包括对卡特纳王宫的总体看法、其科学研究的历史以及对出版的具体概念的解释。后者计划综合介绍建筑学和地层学、相关发现和陶器、研究方法以及与自然环境有关的所有调查的综合。随后将介绍地层学和年代学的总结结果。在这一部分中，将利用所有现有的年代学证据，详细确定皇宫的建造和使用时间。然后介绍了关于皇宫城市整合的成果。这些问题是DFG资助的Qatna长期调查的重要方面。在这里，宫殿外墙布局的符号学方面和宫殿建筑的政治信息被强调。该卷的核心是通过对宫殿地面平面图的描述和对其功能组织的说明来形成的。对它的建筑概念进行了深入的讨论。这些概念融入了美索不达米亚和叙利亚青铜时代中期宫殿建筑的发展历史。因此，卡特纳王宫被置于该地区的建筑史中。卡特纳宫殿的原始建筑布局对宫殿建筑历史的重要性进行了单独评估。卡特纳王宫的原始平面图与马里王宫的前身平面图进行了比较。通过这种比较，卡塔尔和马里斯之间的联系甚至更紧密。关于卡特纳宫殿建筑技术的一章形成了另一个关键方面，因为它深刻地展示了它独特的、有时是独特的建筑技术。此外，还对建筑物的单个部分进行了科学调查，并对建筑物的保护和修复方法进行了说明。总而言之，这本书呈现了对卡特纳王宫建筑的最终整体分析。介绍了十二年来持续研究的基本成果。

The aim of the series „Qatna Studien“ is to publish all results of the German-Syrian excavations at Qatna and to present the complete materials found there. Volume 5 is the first of five volumes dealing with the architecture and stratigraphy of the Royal Palace. It contains summarising and concluding observations of the chronology, the architectural layout, the building history and the building techniques of this edifice and therefore forms the base of the following volumes which will be dealing with single parts of this public building. Hence volume 5 has a central position within the publication program of the Qatna excavation project. The content of this volume comprises an overall view of the Royal Palace at Qatna, the history of its scientific research and the explanation of the specific concept of publication. The latter is planned as a combined presentation of the architecture and stratigraphy, of the associated finds and ceramics and of the methodology of research as well as the synthesis of all investigations concerning the natural environment.Subsequently the summarised results of the stratigraphy and chronology will be presented. In this part the time of the construction and utilization of the Royal Palace will be determined in detail using every existing chronological evidence. Then the results concerning the urban integration of the Royal Palace are presented. These questions were important aspects of the long term investigations at Qatna which were funded by the DFG. Here, the semiotic facets of the layout of the outer walls of the palace and the political messages of the palace building are accentuated. The core of the volume is formed by the description of the ground plan of the palace and the explanation of its functional organisation. An intensive discussion is dedicated to its building concepts. These concepts are integrated within the history of development of Middle Bronze Age palace buildings in Mesopotamia and Syria. Therewith the Royal Palace of Qatna is placed within the architectural history of this region. The importance of the original architectural layout of the palace at Qatna for the architectural history of palace buildings is assessed separately. This original floor plan of the Royal Palace of Qatna is compared to the predecessor ground plan of the Royal Palace at Mari. By this comparison Qatna and Maris are even closer connected to each other. A chapter dealing with the building techniques of the Qatna palace forms a further key aspect, because of the profound presentation of its particular and sometimes singular building techniques. This is complemented by scientific investigations of single parts of the building and by the explanation of the ways of conservation and restoration of the building. All together, the volume presents the final overall analysis of the architecture of the Royal Palace of Qatna. It presents the fundamental results of the twelve year lasting researches.