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Author Rencontre assyriologique internationale (53rd : 2007 : Moscow, Russia, and Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Title City Administration in the Ancient Near East : Proceedings of the 53e Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2 / edited by L. Kogan [and others]
Published Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 370 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Babel und Bibel ; 5
Orientalia et classica ; v. XXXI
Babel und Bibel ; 5.
Orientalia et classica ; issue 31.
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. City administration in the Ancient Near East. 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empire / Greta Van Buylaere -- The city-administration of Ugarit / Wilfred H. van Soldt -- New light from an unpublished archive of Meskigalla, Ensi of Adab, housed in the Cornell University collections : professions and labor in the Ur III period / Giuseppe Visicato -- A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
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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Primarily in English, with three texts in French and two texts in German
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Subject Municipal government -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Cities and towns, Ancient -- Middle East -- Congresses
City and town life -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Local.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- State & Provincial.
Cities and towns, Ancient
City and town life
Municipal government
Politics and government
SUBJECT Middle East -- Politics and government -- Congresses
Middle East -- History -- To 622 -- Congresses
Assyria -- History -- Congresses
Babylonia -- History -- Congresses
Ur (Extinct city) -- Congresses
Subject Iraq -- Ur (Extinct city)
Middle East
Middle East -- Assyria
Middle East -- Babylonia
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Kogan, Leonid Efimovich
Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ gumanitarnyĭ universitet.
ISBN 9781575066134
1575066130
Other Titles 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