Qatna Studien 10: Gold of kings and gods. On the importance of gold objects for the Syrian/ Northern Levantine kingdoms of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages based on the finds from the tombs of Qatna

Qatna 研究 10：国王和众神的黄金。

• 批准号: 433048772
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Peter Pfälzner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung für Vorderasiatische Archäologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Publication Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/433048772?language=en
• 关键词: Qatna; Studien; 10; Gold; kings

With this application, a printing cost subsidy for the publication of volume 10 of the series QaṭnaStudien will be requested. The aim of the series is to present the final publications of the German-Syrian archaeological excavations at Qaṭna. The tenth volume contains a synthesis of the goldobjects from Qaṭna. With a number of approximately 1700 pieces, the gold objects are one of themost extensive and important groups of finds that came to light during the excavations at Qaṭna.The gold objects come almost without exception from the two royal tombs, the Royal Hypogeumand Tomb VII. These extraordinary find contexts provided the two largest gold inventories known todate from Syria and the Levant. Also with regard to the typological composition and the functionaland formal spectrum, the gold inventories from Qaṭna are without parallels in the archaeology ofthe area mentioned. Another important aspect of the material presented here is that with the lateBronze Age Royal Hypogeum and the Middle Bronze Age Tomb VII we have two find contexts ofgold objects which differ chronologically. Thus, for the first time, it is possible to take a close look atthe diachronic development of the Syrian gold craft during the second millennium BC.In view of this scientific significance of the material, the volume presented here pursues adouble objective: on the one hand, all 349 gold objects of Tomb VII are published here for the firsttime scientifically, whereby they are compared with the slightly younger gold finds from the RoyalHypogeum; on the other hand, this material is comprehensively evaluated and interpreted bymeans of a profound, supra-regional, comparative analysis. The analysis also includes questionsabout the function and significance of the gold objects. Consequently, the author has compiled allavailable information from archaeological and philological sources in order to trace the significanceand role of the gold objects in Qaṭna and in the other Syrian kingdoms of the Middle and LateBronze Ages.The manuscript presented is the revised version of Ivana Puljiz's dissertation, submitted inDecember 2016 and defended in May 2017. It was awarded the title "summa cum laude" by threereviewers and unanimously highlighted as an outstanding achievement in the reviews. Anappendix by Roland Schwab and Ernst Pernicka presenting the results of the archaeometricanalyses of the gold objects from Qaṭna rounds off the volume. In summary, this volume containsnot only the final evaluation and interpretation of the gold objects from Qaṭna, but can alsojustifiably claim to be a new standard work on gold in the Ancient Orient.

通过此申请，将申请出版 QaṭnaStuien 系列第 10 卷的印刷费用补贴。该系列的目的是展示德国-叙利亚卡纳考古发掘的最终出版物。第十卷包含来自 Qaṭna 的金器的综合。这些金器数量约为 1700 件，是 Qaṭna 发掘过程中发现的最广泛、最重要的发现之一。这些金器几乎无一例外地来自两座皇家陵墓，即皇家次金陵墓和七号陵墓。这些非凡的发现背景提供了叙利亚和黎凡特迄今为止已知的两个最大的黄金库存。此外，就类型组成以及功能和形式谱而言，卡纳的黄金库存在上述地区的考古学中是无与伦比的。这里提供的材料的另一个重要方面是，在青铜时代晚期的皇家地下墓穴和青铜时代中期的七号墓中，我们有两个按时间顺序不同的金器发现环境。因此，我们第一次有可能近距离观察公元前二千年叙利亚金工艺的历时发展。鉴于材料的科学意义，这里展示的这本书追求双重目标：一方面，七号墓的所有 349 件金器首次在这里科学出版，从而与皇家地下墓穴中发现的稍微年轻的金器进行比较；另一方面，通过深刻的、跨区域的比较分析，对这些材料进行了全面的评价和解读。分析还包括有关金器的功能和意义的问题。因此，作者从考古学和语言学资料中收集了所有可用信息，以追踪卡纳和青铜时代中晚期的其他叙利亚王国中金器的重要性和作用。所提交的手稿是 Ivana Puljiz 论文的修订版，该论文于 2016 年 12 月提交，并于 2017 年 5 月进行答辩。该论文被授予“summa cum laude”称号。 三位审稿人一致强调这是审稿中的杰出成就。罗兰·施瓦布 (Roland Schwab) 和恩斯特·佩尼卡 (Ernst Pernicka) 撰写的附录介绍了对卡纳金器的考古学分析结果，使本书更加完整。综上所述，本书不仅是对卡塔纳金器的最终评价和解读，也堪称古代东方金器的新标准之作。