Representations of Political Power : : Case Histories from Times of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East / / ed. by Marian H. Feldman, Marlies Heinz.
Representation of political power seems to have been necessary at all times in all complex urban societies. To secure order-to construct a certain social, ideological, religious, economic, and cultural stability-seems to be one of the main intentions of representation. When order breaks down or is t...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Representation-Tradition-Religion
- Part 1. Reestablishment of Order after Major Disruption
- Emar and the Transition from Hurrian to Hittite Power
- Frescoes, Exotica, and the Reinvention of the Northern Levantine Kingdoms during the Second Millennium B.C.E.
- Sargon of Akkad: Rebel and Usurper in Kish
- Part 2. Changing Order from Within
- The Royal Cemetery of Ur: Ritual, Tradition, and the Creation of Subjects
- Divine Image of the King: Religious Representation of Political Power in the Hittite Empire
- Nabonidus the Mad King: A Reconsideration of His Steles from Harran and Babylon
- Part 3. Perceptions of a New Order
- Cyrus the Great of Persia: Images and Realities
- The Migration and Sedentarization of the Amorites from the Point of View of the Settled Babylonian Population
- Index of Authors