Appendix 1. Chronologies for Ancient Egypt and the Near East (ca. 5000 bc–ad 396)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Glossary xvii
7. Contributors xxiii
8. Acknowledgments xxvii
9. Penn Museum International Research Conferences. Foreword xxix
10. Introduction
11. Comparing Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia 3
12. Cosmos
13. 1 Propaganda and Performance at the Dawn of the State 33
14. 2. “I Am the Sun of Babylon”: Solar Aspects of Royal Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia 65
15. 3. Rising Suns and Falling Stars: Assyrian Kings and the Cosmos 97
16. 4. Texts before Writing 121
17. 5. Images of Tammuz 151
18. Politics
19. 6. Building the Pharaonic state 185
20. 7. The Management of Royal Treasure 219
21. 8. Egyptian Kingship during the Old Kingdom 257
22. 9. All the King’s Men: Authority, Kingship, and the Rise of the Elites in Assyria 285
23. 10. Kingship as Racketeering 311
24. Landscape
25. 11. Mesopotamian Kings and the Built Environment 331
26. 12. Expeditions to the Wadi Hammamat: Context and Concept 361
27. 13. “Imaginal” Landscapes in Assyrian Imperial Monuments 383
28. Appendices
29. Appendix 1. Chronologies for Ancient Egypt and the Near East (ca. 5000 bc–ad 396) 427
30. Appendix 2. Map of Major Egyptian Sites 429
31. Appendix 3. Map of Major Mesopotamian Sites 431
32. Index 433