Chapter 3. Mari’s Investiture Scene and the Visualization of Kingship in the Old Babylonian Period

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. Editors’ Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Gods in the Margins: Religion, Kingship, and the Fictionalized Frontier 3
6. Chapter 2. Place and Portability: Divine Emblems in Old Babylonian Law 28
7. Chapter 3. Mari’s Investiture Scene and the Visualization of Kingship in the Old Babylonian Period 74
8. Chapter 4. Divine Foundations: Religion and Assyrian Capital Cities 115
9. Chapter 5. Approaches to the Religious Topography of the Oasis of Taymāʾ, Northwest Arabia, During the First Millennium BCE: Images, Texts, and Space 149
10. List of Contributors 193