City administration in the ancient Near East [electronic resource] : proceedings of the 53e Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2 / edited by L. Kogan ... [et al.].
English, French, German, Primarily in English, with three texts in French and two texts in German.
Imprint:
Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2010.
Format:
Book, Conference Proceedings
xv, 370 p. : ill., maps.
Title Variation:
Proceedings of the 53e Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2
Proceedings of the cinquante-troisième Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2
Proceedings of the 53rd Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2
Note:
Papers from second part of 53rd Rencontre assyriologique internationale meetings, held in Hermitage Theater, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 27, 2007; first part was held in Moscow, Russia, and was entitled "Language in the ancient Near East."
"Published for the Russian State University for the Humanities."
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Opening lectures. "He put in order the accounts" : remarks on the early dynastic background of the administrative reorganizations in the Ur III state / Gebhard Selz
Être chef d'un état Amorrite : city administration in the ancient Near East / Jean-Marie Durand
Administration in texts from the first Sealand dynasty / Stephanie Dalley
City administration in poetry : the case of the herald / Dina Katz
Between city institutions and markets : Mesopotamian traders of the 2nd millennium BC / Rafa Koliński
L'administration de Chagar Bazar (Ašnakkum) à l'époque de Samsī-Addu / Denis Lacambre
How to control nomads? : a case study associated with Jebel Bishri in central Syria : West Semitic nomads in relation to the urban world / Minna Lönnqvist
The Sargonic "archive" of Me-sasag7, cup-bearer of Adab / Massimo Maiocchi
Le ḫazannu à Mari et sur le moyen-Euphrate / Lionel Marti
From oral promise to written receipt : a cognitive study of the use of mnemonics within ancient administration / Bonnie Nilhamn
Verschenkte Stadte/königliche Landschenkungen an Götter und Menschen / Susanne Paulus
Ḫazannum : the forgotten mayor / Jon Taylor
Stadtische Selbstverwaltung und sozial-politischer Gemeindesektor in Phönikien und Syrien / Yuli B. Tsirkin
The role of the ḫazannu in the Neo-Assyrian empire / Greta Van Buylaere
The city-administration of Ugarit / Wilfred H. van Soldt
New light from an unpublished archive of Meskigalla, Ensi of Adab, housed in the Cornell University collections : professions and labor in the Ur III period / Giuseppe Visicato
A Babylonian gang of potters : reconstructing the social organization of crafts production in the late third millennium BC southern Mesopotamia / Jacob Dahl
What work did the Damgars do? : towards a definition of Ur III labor / Steven Garfinkle
Administration of the irrigation fee in Umma during the Ur III period (ca. 2112-2004 BCE) / Xiaoli Ouyang.
Reproduction:
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.