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

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

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