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Experiencing power, generating authority : cosmos, politics, and the ideology of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
- Title
- Experiencing power, generating authority : cosmos, politics, and the ideology of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia / edited by Jane A. Hill, Philip Jones, and Antonio J. Morales.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2013.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hill, Jane A.
- Description
- xxx, 448 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Penn Museum international research conferences ; volume 6
- Uniform Title
- Penn Museum international research conferences ; v. 6.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 Ata̜c
- Call Number
- JFE 14-371
- ISBN
- 9781934536643 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1934536644 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013025748
- OCLC
- 842884244
- Title
- Experiencing power, generating authority : cosmos, politics, and the ideology of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia / edited by Jane A. Hill, Philip Jones, and Antonio J. Morales.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Penn Museum international research conferences ; volume 6Penn Museum international research conferences ; v. 6.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Hill, Jane A.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-371