Who was King? Who was not King?
Subtitle: the rulers and the ruled in the ancient Near East
By: Petr Charvát, Petra Mařiková Vlčková (eds.).
Contributors: Archeologický ústav (Akademie věd České republiky)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Prague
Language: eng; fre; ger
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9788087365373
Subjects: Kings and rulers; History
Notes: Academy publication.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9 English, 1 French, 2 German contributions.
Table of contents: title: "The poor are the silent ones in the country" / Gebhard J. Selz; title: The earliest history of the kingdom of Kiš / Petr Charvát; title: Représentation et légitimation du pouvoir royal aux époques néo-sumérienne et amorrite / Bertrand Lafont; title: History and ideology in the Old Babylonian year names / Lukáš Pecha; title: König Ḫammurapi und die Babylonier / Walther Sallaberger; title: The daughters of the kings of Babylon and their role in the Old Babylonian economy and society / Witold Tyborowski; title: To be king,  much ado about nothing? / Jana Mynářová; title: Wer war der (erste ugaritische) König? / Pavel Čech; title: Jehu, the King of Israel who repaid and paid / Filip Čapek; title: Adad-šumu-uṣur and his family in the service of Assyrian kings / Kateřina Šašková; title: The rulers and the ruled in Achaemenid art / Michael Roaf; title: The portrait of Nabonidus and Cyrus in their(?) chronicle / Stefan Zawadzki.