Experiencing power, generating authority : cosmos, politics, and the ideology of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia /
Experiencing Power, Generating Authority offers a cross-cultural comparison of the cosmic ideology and political structure of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
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[2014] ©2014 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9781934536650 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9781934536650.jpg |
Summary: |
Experiencing Power, Generating Authority offers a cross-cultural comparison of the cosmic ideology and political structure of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(480pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | 47 illus. |
ISBN: | 9781934536650 |
Index Number: | GN492 |
CLC: | D521 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Penn Museum International Research Conferences. Foreword -- Comparing Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia / 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 / 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 / 11. Mesopotamian Kings and the Built Environment / 12. Expeditions to the Wadi Hammamat: Context and Concept / 13. "Imaginal" Landscapes in Assyrian Imperial Monuments / 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. |