Actors and Power Structures in Hittite Society

拟议的项目是对赫梯社会、其权力结构和特征以及行政系统的相关方面的研究。拟议研究方案的个人目标是：1)定义赫特社会的显性和隐性代理人2)收集相关的楔形文字文本并评估其具体意义3)对指示职业的称谓进行词汇分析，研究项目的工作方案分为三个自成一体但相互关联的工作包(WP)：WP 1：收集文本文件和分析关键段落WP 2：收集词条和词汇分析WP 3：文本系统解释、语法学证据分析和出版专著。调查将主要基于对HITTITE石碑收集的相关文本来源的研究。所采用的方法包括文献的文献学分析和历史解读。研究将在美因茨的Akademie der Wisenschaften and der Writatur的Hethitologie档案馆进行，该档案馆拥有最全面的人学研究词汇数据库和完整的楔形文字表照片集。调查结果将以专著形式呈现，被设想为赫人社会史的手册。这本专著将为读者提供关于赫梯社会和赫梯王国从其形成到赫梯帝国末期的权力组织的广泛论述。

The proposed project is a study of Hittite society, its power structures and characters, along with interrelated aspects of the administrative system.The individual objectives of the proposed research programme are:1) Definition of explicit and implicit agents in Hittite society2) Collection of relevant cuneiform texts and evaluation of their specific significance3) Lexical analysis of titles indicating professions, offices and social status4) Investigation of the Hieroglyphic Luwian titles in seal inscriptions.The work programme of the research project is subdivided into three self-contained but interrelated work packages (WP):WP 1: Collection of textual documentation and analysis of key passagesWP 2: Collection of word entries and lexical analysis of lemmataWP 3: Systematic interpretation of texts, analysis of sphragistic evidence and publication of a monograph.The investigation will be based primarily on the study of relevant textual sources from the Hittite tablet collection. The methods applied consist of the philological analysis and historical interpretation of texts.The research will be conducted at the Hethitologie-Archiv at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, which hosts one of the most comprehensive lexical databases for Hittitological studies and a complete photo collection of cuneiform tablets.The results of this investigation will be presented in a monograph, conceived as a handbook of the social history of the Hittites. The monograph will provide the reader with an extensive treatment of Hittite society and the power organization of the Hittite kingdom from its formation until the end of the Hittite empire.