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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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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Hill, Jane A.; Jones, Philip; Morales, Antonio J.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2014]
©2014
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Divine right of kings.
Political anthropology.
Political customs and rites.
Power (Social sciences)
Ancient History.
Classical Studies.
Kings and rulers > Religious aspects.
Kings and rulers.
HISTORY > Ancient > Egypt.
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9781934536650
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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.

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