= Mielke D.P., Hittite Pottery: Research, Corpus and
Social Significance, in: HHE 649-690. [Ch. 13; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661781-014. Abstract: After more than 100 years of archaeological research, we are comparatively
well informed about the corpus of Hittite pottery and its basic development.
However, in Hittite archaeology the excavation of individual sites is clearly
in the foreground which is also reflected in the publications of materials. Higherlevel
questions such as the social significance of pottery have hardly played a
role to date. In this respect, the sparse written sources seem to suggest a meaninglessness
of pottery in Hittite society, but this is instead a reflection of economic
insignificance. First and foremost, it must be recognised that it was not the
ceramic object itself that is important, but the acts and activities that were carried
out with ceramics. This in turn also means that Hittite pottery was the result
of the special needs of the Hittite state and its society, and that Hittite pottery
never represents a fixed entity but instead must be understood as a permanent
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