Responsibility for the maintenance, development and improvement of the Hethitologie-Portal Mainz and subsidiary sites lies with the long-term project, “The Corpus of Hittite Festival Rituals”, located at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz.

History

The Hethitologie-Portal Mainz (HPM) was constructed from 2001-2007 under the direction of Gernot Wilhelm in cooperation with Gerfrid G.W. Müller with funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

„Informationsinfrastruktur für digitale Publikation keilschriftlicher Staatsverträge der Hethiter und für darauf bezogene netzbasierte Forschungs­kooperation“ (III N 4 – 554 951, Laufzeit 01.05. 2001 – 31.7.2007)

Two considerations gave initial impetus to the project:

1. The Konkordanz, on which Silvin Košak has been working since 1988 within the academy project “Hethitische Forschungen” and of which four volumes exist since 2001, quickly became outdated due to rapid advances within Hittitology. The transition to an internet-based open-access databank seemed to be the only logical solution to the problem.

2. The traditional format of Hittitological text editions had proven itself inadequate as a basis for research with regard to manuscript dating as well as to the history of texts and text traditions. Therefore, Gernot Wilhelm articulated the need for developing a means of displaying the texts in which it was possible to choose between a synoptic format with syntactically-defined lines, and a format showing the individual line distribution of particular tablets. These demands were realized in a program developed by Gerfrid Müller.

he Hittite state treaties were chosen as a group of texts upon which this process was to be carried out exemplarily, since substantial groundwork had already been laid here by an earlier DFG project (WI 534-09, -010).

After completion of the DFG project until 2015, HPM was continuously expanded within the framework of the academy project “Hethitische Forschungen” as well as through the contributions of numerous Hittitologists worldwide, who have made their own projects accessibly through platform of HPM. Since 2016, HPM has been maintained within the long-term project, “The Corpus of Hittite Festival Rituals” (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz; Philipps-Universität Marburg; Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg).

The data processing centre of the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, which also provides internet access for the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, as well as the data processing centre of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg provide the digital resources which enable global access to the databases of HPM.

Steering Committee

• Prof. Dr. Daniel Schwemer (general head)
  Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
• Prof. Dr. Gerfrid G. W. Müller (head of IT)
  Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz; Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
• Dr. Susanne Görke
  Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Prof. Dr. Doris Prechel
  Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Rieken
  Philipps-Universität Marburg

Advisory Board

• Prof. Alfonso Archi
  Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italia
• Prof. Gary Beckman
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
• Prof. Belkıs Dinçol
  İstanbul Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Türkiye
• Prof. Jörg Klinger
  Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland
• Prof. Massimiliano Marazzi
  Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli, Italia
• Prof. H. Craig Melchert
  University of California Los Angeles, USA
• Prof. Jared L. Miller
  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Deutschland
• Dr. Alice Mouton
  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Paris, Ivry sur Seine, France
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Schachner
  Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abt. İstanbul, Türkiye
• Dr. Jana Siegelová-Součková
  Národní Muzeum, Praha, Česká Republika
• Prof. Aygül Süel
  Ankara Üniversitesi, Türkiye
• Prof. Piotr Taracha
  Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, Polska

Contact

E-mail to Prof. Dr. Gerfrid G. W. Müller