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

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