Experiencing Power, Generating Authority : : Cosmos, Politics, and the Ideology of Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia / / ed. by Antonio J. Morales, Philip Jones, Jane A. Hill.
For almost three thousand years, Egypt and Mesopotamia were each ruled by the single sacred office of kingship. Though geographically near, these ancient civilizations were culturally distinct, and scholars have historically contrasted their respective conceptualizations of the ultimate authority, i...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
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