The designed cityscape: the urban and topographic context of the royal palace of Qatna

涉及Qatna挖掘和调查的项目将继续进行，并将在长期项目的最后三年阶段内结束。这一阶段的最终目标是在Qatna Studien专著系列的框架内全面出版挖掘和研究成果。计划对所有建筑和地层特征、所有小发现和所有相关陶器收藏进行完整的研究，并最终确定关于结果的可出版手稿。由于叙利亚目前的局势，没有进一步的挖掘或实地研究计划。由于2010年后由于政治局势的原因，挖掘工作已经停止，对这些材料的大部分研究工作可能已经在过去四年中进行了。在此基础上，实际上可以预期在该项目第四期结束之前可以完成研究。因此，1999年开始的挖掘项目将于2018年结束，所有结果将全部公布。这些结果将为我们了解青铜时代中后期叙利亚西部的建筑、年表、陶器、雕塑品、艺术和文化和历史发展奠定新的基础。关于该项目的具体研究问题，旨在调查卡特纳设计的城市景观，在过去的项目期限内获得了大量的见解。在接下来的项目期限内，它们将进一步深化。这是指通过建造皇宫(主要目标A)和研究宫殿环境的视觉、象征和功能设计(主要目标B)来调查该地区的结构和意识形态变化。直到2010年的挖掘活动都是针对这些问题，特别是在宫殿的地基和下部结构中。他们提供了需要进一步研究的相关数据，以便在2018年该项目结束之前对主要研究问题作出最后结论和综合。

The project referring to the excavations and investigations at Qatna will be continued and brought to and end within the final three-year phase of the long-term project. The final aim of this phase is the full publication of the excavation and study results in the frame of the monographic series Qatna Studien. It is planned to study all architectural and stratigraphic features, all small finds and all relevant pottery collections in a complete way and to finalize the publishable manuscripts on the results. No further excavations or field studies are planned due to the current situation in Syria. As excavations have been halted after 2010 due to the political situation, a large part of the study of the materials could already be carried out in the last four years. On this basis it can realistically be expected that the studies can be finalized until the end of the fourth term of the project. The excavation project which started in 1999 will, thus, be ended in 2018 with the full publication of all results. These results will form a new basis for our knowledge on the architecture, chronology, pottery, glyptics, art and the cultural and historical development of Western Syria during the Middle and Late Bronze Age. With reference to the specific research question of the project, which aims at investigating the designed cityscape of Qatna, substantial insights have been gained during the past project term. They will be further deepened during the coming project term. This refers to the investigation of the structural and ideological transformation of the area by the construction of the royal palace (main aim A) and the study of the visual, symbolic and functional design of the surroundings of the palace (main aim B). The excavation activities until 2010 were directed towards these issues, particularly in the foundations and substructures of the palace. They produced relevant data which needs further study in order to reach final conclusions and a synthesis for the main research questions until the end of the project in 2018.