Experiencing power, generating authority : cosmos, politics, and the ideology of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia /
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
2013.
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Call Number: GN492.7 .E96 2013
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Experiencing power, generating authority : |b cosmos, politics, and the ideology of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia / |c edited by Jane A. Hill, Philip Jones, and Antonio J. Morales. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Philadelphia : |b University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, |c 2013. | |
| 300 | |a xxx, 448 pages : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a Penn Museum international research conferences ; |v 6. | |
| 500 | |a "The work contained in this volume is the result of a four-day workshop entitled 'Experiencing power--Generating Authority : Cosmos, Politics, and the Ideology of Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia' held in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology November 2007."--Page [xxvii]. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a •Introduction. Comparing Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia: Cosmos, Politics, and Landscape / Jane A. Hill, Philip Jones, and Antonio J. Morales •COSMOS. Propaganda and Performance at the Dawn of the State / Ellen Morris ; "I am the Sun of Babylon": Solar aspects of royal power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia / Dominque Charpin ; Rising Suns and Falling Stars: Assyrian Kings and the Cosmos / Eckart Frahm ; Texts before Writing: Reading (Proto-)Egyptian Poetics of Power / Ludwig D. Morenz ; Images of Tammuz: The Intersection of Death, Divinity, and Royal Authority in Ancient Mesopotamia / JoAnn Scurlock •POLITICS. Building the Pharaonic state: Territory, Elite and Power in Ancient Egypt in the Third millennium BCE / Juan Carlos Moreno García ; The Management of the Royal Treasure: Palace Archives and Palatial Economy in the Ancient Near East / Walther Sallaberger ; Egyptian Kingship During the Old Kingdom / Miroslav Bárta ; All The King's Men: Authority, Kingship, and The Rise of Elites in Assyria / Beate Pongratz-Leisten ; Kingship as Racketeering: The Royal Tombs and Death Pits at Ur, Mesopotamia, Reinterpreted from the Standpoint of Conflict Theory / D. Bruce Dickson •LANDSCAPE. Mesopotamian Kings and the Built Environment / Michael Roaf ; Expeditions to the Wadi Hammamat: Context and Concept / Alan B. Lloyd ; "Imaginal" Landscapes in Assyrian Imperial Monuments / Mehmet-Ali Atac̨ | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Divine right of kings. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Kings and rulers |x Religious aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Political anthropology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Political customs and rites. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Power (Social sciences) | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Egypt |x Kings and rulers. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Iraq |x Kings and rulers. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Hill, Jane A., | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Jones, Philip, |d 1960- | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Morales, Antonio J. |q (Antonio Javier), |d 1974- | |
| 901 | |a reviewed | ||
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