Table of Contents

1: Harriet Crawford: Steady States: Introduction and acknowledgements
Part I: Mesopotamia and Iran
2: Richard Zettler: Dynastic change and institutional administration in Southern Mesopotamia in the latter 3rd millennium BCE: Evidence from seals and sealing practices
3: Kathryn E. Slanski: The Mesopotamian 'Rod and Ring': Icon of Righteous Kingship and Balance of Power between Palace and Temple
4: Tonia Sharlach: Social Change and the Transition from the Third Dynasty of Ur to the Old Babylonian Kingdoms c.2112-1595 BCE
5: Michael Jursa: The Transition of Babylonia from the Neo-Babylonian Empire to Achaemenid Rule
6: Erica Ehrenberg: Persian conquerors, Babylonian captivators
7: Sheila Canby: The Royal Hunt in Islamic Art: a symbol of power or the power of a symbol?
Part II: Egypt
8: Stephen Quirke: The Hyksos in Egypt 1600 BCE: New Rulers without an Administration
9: Robert Morkot: Tradition, innovation and researching the past in Libyan, Kushite, and Saite Egypt
10: Alan Bowman: Egypt and the Graeco-Roman world: from Ptolemaic Kingdom to Roman Province
11: Petra Sijpesteijn: New Rule over Old Structures: Egypt after the Muslim Conquest
Afterword
12: Peter Sluglett: Regime Change in Iraq from the Mongols to the Present: An Essay in haute vulgarisation

Reviews

Well illustrated
*Gary Beckman, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*