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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 |
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9781934536650 (electronic bk.) |
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1934536652 (electronic bk.) |
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9781934536643 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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1934536644 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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