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City administration in the ancient Near East : proceedings of the 53e Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2
- Author / Creator
- Conferences
- Rencontre assyriologique internationale (53rd : 2007 : Moscow, Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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- Online
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- Creator
- edited by L. Kogan ... [and others]
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, French, German
- Publication
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- Winona Lake, Ind. : Published for the Russian State University for the Humanities by Eisenbrauns, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1575066130, 1575061686, 9781575061689, 9781575066134
- OCLC
- ocn652206080, ocn759160119, ocn939263462
- 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."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Primarily in English, with three texts in French and two texts in German.
- 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
Subjects
- Cities and towns, Ancient -- Middle East -- Congresses.
- City and town life -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
- Municipal government -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
- Middle East -- History -- To 622 -- Congresses.
- Middle East -- Politics and government -- Congresses.
- Middle East -- Social life and customs -- Congresses.
- Assyria -- History -- Congresses.
- Babylonia -- History -- Congresses.
- Ur (Extinct city) -- Congresses.