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Experiencing Power, Generating Authority: Cosmos, Politics, and the Ideology of Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

Experiencing Power, Generating Authority: Cosmos, Politics, and the Ideology of Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia


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Experiencing Power, Generating Authority offers a cross-cultural comparison of the cosmic ideology and political structure of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Glossary Introduction. Comparing Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia: Cosmos, Politics, and Landscape —Jane A. Hill, Philip Jones, and Antonio J. Morales I. COSMOS Chapter 1. Propaganda and Performance at the Dawn of the State —Ellen Morris Chapter 2. "I am the Sun of Babylon": Solar aspects of royal power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia —Dominque Charpin Chapter 3. Rising Suns and Falling Stars: Assyrian Kings and the Cosmos —Eckart Frahm Chapter 4. Texts before Writing: Reading (Proto-)Egyptian Poetics of Power —Ludwig D. Morenz Chapter 5. Images of Tammuz: The Intersection of Death, Divinity, and Royal Authority in Ancient Mesopotamia —JoAnn Scurlock II. POLITICS Chapter 6. Building the Pharaonic state: Territory, Elite and Power in Ancient Egypt in the Third millennium BCE —Juan Carlos Moreno García Chapter 7. The Management of the Royal Treasure: Palace Archives and Palatial Economy in the Ancient Near East —Walther Sallaberger Chapter 8. Egyptian Kingship During the Old Kingdom —Miroslav Bárta Chapter 9. All The King's Men: Authority, Kingship, and The Riseof the Elites in Assyria —Beate Pongratz-Leisten Chapter 10. Kingship as Racketeering: The Royal Tombs and Death Pits at Ur, Mesopotamia, Reinterpreted from the Standpoint of Conflict Theory —D. Bruce Dickson III. LANDSCAPE Chapter 11. Mesopotamian Kings and the Built Environment —Michael Roaf Chapter 12. Expeditions to the Wadi Hammamat: Context and Concept —Alan B. Lloyd Chapter 13. "Imaginal" Landscapes in Assyrian Imperial Monuments —Mehmet-Ali Ataç APPENDICES 1. Chronological Table for Egyptian and Mesopotamian Cultures 2. Map of Major Egyptian Sites 3. Map of Major Mesopotamian Sites Index List of Contributors

About the Author :
Jane A. Hill is Director of the Predynastic Egyptian Collections Project at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and a Consulting Scholar in the Museum's Egyptian Section. She also teaches anthropology at Rowan University. Philip Jones is Associate Curator in the Babylonian Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Executive Editor of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project. Antonio J. Morales is Research Associate at the Institute of Egyptology of the Freie Universitat Berlin.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781934536650
  • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 480
  • ISBN-10: 1934536652
  • Publisher Date: 14 Nov 2013
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 480
  • Sub Title: Cosmos, Politics, and the Ideology of Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia


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