Experiencing power, generating authority : cosmos, politics, and the ideology of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia /
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Language: English
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
2013.
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Penn Museum international research conferences ;
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Call Number: GN492.7 .E96 2013
Table of Contents:
- •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