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Experiencing Power, Generating Authority : Cosmos, Politics, and the Ideology of Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia /

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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Otros Autores: Morales, Antonio J. (Antonio Javier), 1974- (Editor ), Jones, Philip (Editor ), Hill, Jane A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Introduction.  |t Comparing Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia : Cosmos, Politics, and Landscape /  |r Jane A. Hill, Philip Jones, and Antonio J. Morales --  |t COSMOS.  |t Propaganda and Performance at the Dawn of the State /  |r Ellen Morris ;  |t "I am the Sun of Babylon" : Solar aspects of royal power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia /  |r Dominque Charpin ;  |t Rising Suns and Falling Stars : Assyrian Kings and the Cosmos /  |r Eckart Frahm ;  |t Texts before Writing : Reading (Proto- )Egyptian Poetics of Power /  |r Ludwig D. Morenz ;  |t Images of Tammuz : The Intersection of Death, Divinity, and Royal Authority in Ancient Mesopotamia /  |r JoAnn Scurlock --  |t POLITICS.  |t Building the Pharaonic state : Territory, Elite and Power in Ancient Egypt in the Third millennium BCE /  |r Juan Carlos Moreno García ;  |t The Management of the Royal Treasure : Palace Archives and Palatial Economy in the Ancient Near East /  |r Walther Sallaberger ;  |t Egyptian Kingship During the Old Kingdom /  |r Miroslav Bárta ;  |t All The King's Men : Authority, Kingship, and The Rise of Elites in Assyria /  |r Beate Pongratz-Leisten ;  |t Kingship as Racketeering : The Royal Tombs and Death Pits at Ur, Mesopotamia, Reinterpreted from the Standpoint of Conflict Theory /  |r D. Bruce Dickson --  |t LANDSCAPE.  |t Mesopotamian Kings and the Built Environment /  |r Michael Roaf ;  |t Expeditions to the Wadi Hammamat : Context and Concept /  |r Alan B. Lloyd ;  |t "Imaginal" Landscapes in Assyrian Imperial Monuments /  |r Mehmet-Ali Atac̨. 
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