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

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2014

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

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781934536650

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About this book

Experiencing Power, Generating Authority offers a cross-cultural comparison of the cosmic ideology and political structure of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Author / Editor information

Jane A. Hill is Director of the Predynastic Egyptian Collections Project at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and a Consulting Scholar in the Museum's Egyptian Section. She also teaches anthropology at Rowan University. Philip Jones is Associate Curator in the Babylonian Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Executive Editor of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project. Antonio J. Morales is Research Associate at the Institute of Egyptology of the Freie Universitat Berlin.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxiii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxvii
Penn Museum International Research Conferences. Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxix
Introduction
Comparing Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia Cosmos, Politics and Landscape Jane A. Hill, Philip Jones and Antonio J. Morales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Cosmos
1 Propaganda and Performance at the Dawn of the State Ellen f. Morris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
2. “I Am the Sun of Babylon”: Solar Aspects of Royal Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia Dominique Charpin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
3. Rising Suns and Falling Stars: Assyrian Kings and the Cosmos Eckart Frahm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
4. Texts before Writing Reading (Proto-)Egyptian Poetics of Power Ludwig d. Morenz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
5. Images of Tammuz The Intersection of Death, Divinity, and Royal Authority in Ancient Mesopotamia Joann Scurlock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Politics
6. Building the Pharaonic state Territory, elite, and power in ancient Egypt in the 3rd millennium BCE Juan Carlos Moreno García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
7. The Management of Royal Treasure Palace Archives and Palatial Economy in the Ancient Near East Walther Sallaberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
8. Egyptian Kingship during the Old Kingdom Miroslav Bárta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
9. All the King’s Men: Authority, Kingship, and the Rise of the Elites in Assyria Beate Pongratz-Leisten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
10. Kingship as Racketeering The Royal Tombs and Death Pits at Ur, Mesopotamia, Reinterpreted from the Standpoint of Conflict Theory D. Bruce Dickson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Landscape
11. Mesopotamian Kings and the Built Environment Michael Roaf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
12. Expeditions to the Wadi Hammamat: Context and Concept Alan B. Lloyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
13. “Imaginal” Landscapes in Assyrian Imperial Monuments Mehmet-Ali Ataç Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Appendices
Appendix 1. Chronologies for Ancient Egypt and the Near East (ca. 5000 bc–ad 396) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
Appendix 2. Map of Major Egyptian Sites Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
Appendix 3. Map of Major Mesopotamian Sites Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 480
Illustrations
- Other: 47 illus.
Keywords: Archaeology; Archaeology; Ancient Studies

eBook

Published: November 14, 2013
ISBN: 9781934536650