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The Corpus of Hittite Festival Rituals: State Administration of the Cult System in Late Bronze Age Anatolia
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The ceremonial ritual texts are the most extensive group of cuneiform texts from Hittite Anatolia. They offer a uniquely dense documentation of the cult system and its administration in the ancient Near East.
Reconstruction and indexing of this text corpus in the form of web-based editions are the main aims of the Corpus of Hittite Festival Rituals (HFR) project, as well as the investigation of key palaeographical, linguistic, religious and historical questions posed by this group of texts.
The project is scheduled to run for a total of 21 years (2016-36) and has a budget of around 8.3 million euros. It is divided into three research units and is based at the Mainz Academy (Hittitology Archive) and the Universities of Marburg and (from 2019) Würzburg.
Project Management:
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Rieken
Prof. Dr. Daniel Schwemer (University of Würzburg)
Further information and a detailed project description can be found on the homepage of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.