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1 online resource |
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Penn Museum international research conferences ; volume 6 |
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Penn Museum international research conferences ; v. 6.
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| Contents |
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 Atac̨ |
| Summary |
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, imagining Egyptian kings as invested with cosmic power and Mesopotamian kings as primarily political leaders. In fact, both kingdoms depended on religious ideals and political resources to make legitimate and to exercise their authority. Cross-cultural comparison reveals the sophisticated and varied strategies that ancient kings used to unify and govern their growing kingdoms. This volume draws on rich material records left behind by both kingdoms, from royal monuments and icons to the written deeds and commissions of kings. Thirteen essays provocatively juxtapose the relationships Egyptian and Mesopotamian kings had with their gods and religious mediators, as well as their subjects and court officials. They also explore the ideological significance of landscape in each kingdom, since the natural and built environment influenced the economy, security, and cosmology of these lands. The interplay of religion, politics, and territory is dramatized by the everyday details of economy, trade, and governance, as well as the social crises of war or the death of a king. Reexamining established notions of cosmic and political rule, this book challenges and deepens scholarly approaches to rulership in the ancient world |
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Ancient Studies |
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Archaeology |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Political anthropology.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Political customs and rites.
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Divine right of kings.
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Kings and rulers -- Religious aspects.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Egypt.
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Divine right of kings
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Kings and rulers
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Kings and rulers -- Religious aspects
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Political anthropology
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Political customs and rites
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Power (Social sciences)
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Iraq -- Kings and rulers.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2014000711
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Egypt -- Kings and rulers.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041313
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| Subject |
Egypt
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Iraq
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hill, Jane A., editor.
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Jones, Philip, editor
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Morales, Antonio J. (Antonio Javier), 1974- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781934536650 |
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1934536652 |
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