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City administration in the ancient Near East : proceedings of the 53e Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2 / edited by L. Kogan [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Rencontre assyriologique internationale (53rd : 2007 : Moscow, Russia, and Saint Petersburg, Russia)
- Rencontre assyriologique internationale.
- Series:
- Orientalia et classica ; issue 31.
- Babel und Bibel ; 5.
- Babel und Bibel ; 5
- Orientalia et classica ; v. XXXI
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Municipal government--Middle East--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Municipal government.
- Cities and towns, Ancient--Middle East--Congresses.
- Cities and towns, Ancient.
- City and town life--Middle East--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- City and town life.
- Middle East--Politics and government--Congresses.
- Middle East.
- Middle East--History--To 622--Congresses.
- Assyria--History--Congresses.
- Assyria.
- Babylonia--History--Congresses.
- Babylonia.
- Ur (Extinct city)--Congresses.
- Ur (Extinct city).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 370 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Other Title:
- 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
- Place of Publication:
- Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first half of the proceedings, Language in the Ancient Near East (in 2 parts), is available here. A workshop volume is available here. The topic of the meetings in St. Petersburg portion of the 53e RAI was, as the title indicates, city administration. Of the 19 papers published in this volume, 2 are based on plenary, opening papers; 16 discuss various aspects of administration from very early times in geographic regions stretching from the extreme south of Mesopotamia, through the middle and upper Euphrates, to Ugarit; and 3 discuss labor and professions in the Ur III period.
- 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 ©£hazannu 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
- ©£Hazannum : the forgotten mayor / Jon Taylor
- Stadtische Selbstverwaltung und sozial-politischer Gemeindesektor in Phönikien und Syrien / Yuli B. Tsirkin
- The role of the ©£hazannu 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.
- Notes:
- 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."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-57506-613-0
- OCLC:
- 759160119
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