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 / / 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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MitwirkendeR:
Ataç, Mehmet-Ali,
Bárta, Miroslav,
Charpin, Dominique,
Dickson, D. Bruce,
Frahm, Eckart,
Hill, Jane A.,
Jones, Philip,
Lloyd, Alan B.,
Morales, Antonio J.,
Moreno García, Juan Carlos,
Morenz, Ludwig d.,
Morris, Ellen f.,
Pongratz-Leisten, Beate,
Roaf, Michael,
Sallaberger, Walther,
Scurlock, Joann,
HerausgeberIn:
Hill, Jane A.,
Jones, Philip,
Morales, Antonio J.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.) :; 47 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Penn Museum International Research Conferences. Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Comparing Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
  • Cosmos
  • 1 Propaganda and Performance at the Dawn of the State
  • 2. "I Am the Sun of Babylon": Solar Aspects of Royal Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
  • 3. Rising Suns and Falling Stars: Assyrian Kings and the Cosmos
  • 4. Texts before Writing
  • 5. Images of Tammuz
  • Politics
  • 6. Building the Pharaonic state
  • 7. The Management of Royal Treasure
  • 8. Egyptian Kingship during the Old Kingdom
  • 9. All the King's Men: Authority, Kingship, and the Rise of the Elites in Assyria
  • 10. Kingship as Racketeering
  • Landscape
  • 11. Mesopotamian Kings and the Built Environment
  • 12. Expeditions to the Wadi Hammamat: Context and Concept
  • 13. "Imaginal" Landscapes in Assyrian Imperial Monuments
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1. Chronologies for Ancient Egypt and the Near East (ca. 5000 bc-ad 396)
  • Appendix 2. Map of Major Egyptian Sites
  • Appendix 3. Map of Major Mesopotamian Sites
  • Index

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