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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 Garcia 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 Barta Chapter 9. All The King's Men: Authority, Kingship, and The Rise*of 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 Atac 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

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