List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction. Comparing Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia:
Cosmos, Politics, and Landscape
—Jane A. Hill, Philip Jones, and Antonio J. Morales
I. COSMOS
Chapter 1. Propaganda and Performance at the Dawn of the State
—Ellen Morris
Chapter 2. "I am the Sun of Babylon": Solar aspects of royal power
in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
—Dominque Charpin
Chapter 3. Rising Suns and Falling Stars: Assyrian Kings and the
Cosmos
—Eckart Frahm
Chapter 4. Texts before Writing: Reading (Proto-)Egyptian Poetics
of Power
—Ludwig D. Morenz
Chapter 5. Images of Tammuz: The Intersection of Death, Divinity,
and Royal Authority in Ancient Mesopotamia
—JoAnn Scurlock
II. POLITICS
Chapter 6. Building the Pharaonic state: Territory, Elite and Power
in Ancient Egypt in the Third millennium BCE
—Juan Carlos Moreno García
Chapter 7. The Management of the Royal Treasure: Palace Archives
and Palatial Economy in the Ancient Near East
—Walther Sallaberger
Chapter 8. Egyptian Kingship During the Old Kingdom
—Miroslav Bárta
Chapter 9. All The King's Men: Authority, Kingship, and The Riseof
the Elites in Assyria
—Beate Pongratz-Leisten
Chapter 10. Kingship as Racketeering: The Royal Tombs and Death
Pits at Ur, Mesopotamia, Reinterpreted from the Standpoint of
Conflict Theory
—D. Bruce Dickson
III. LANDSCAPE
Chapter 11. Mesopotamian Kings and the Built Environment
—Michael Roaf
Chapter 12. Expeditions to the Wadi Hammamat: Context and
Concept
—Alan B. Lloyd
Chapter 13. "Imaginal" Landscapes in Assyrian Imperial
Monuments
—Mehmet-Ali Ataç
APPENDICES
1. Chronological Table for Egyptian and Mesopotamian Cultures
2. Map of Major Egyptian Sites
3. Map of Major Mesopotamian Sites
Index
List of Contributors
Experiencing Power, Generating Authority offers a cross-cultural comparison of the cosmic ideology and political structure of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
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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