City administration in the ancient Near East  proceedings of the 53e Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2 /  [electronic resource] : 
 Proceedings of the 53e Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2  Proceedings of the cinquante-troisi�eme Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2  Proceedings of the 53rd Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2 
edited by L. Kogan ... [et al.]. 
 - Winona Lake, Ind. :  Eisenbrauns,  2010. 
 - xv, 370 p. :  ill., maps. 
 - Babel und Bibel ;  5 Orientalia et classica ;  v. XXXI .
 - Orientalia et classica ;  issue 31. Babel und Bibel ;  5. .
<br/><br/> 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." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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 -- Etre chef d'un etat 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 Kolinski -- L'administration de Chagar Bazar (Asnakkum) a l'epoque de Samsi-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 Lonnqvist -- The Sargonic "archive" of Me-sasag7, cup-bearer of Adab / Massimo Maiocchi -- Le ��hazannu a 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/konigliche Landschenkungen an Gotter und Menschen / Susanne Paulus -- ��Hazannum : the forgotten mayor / Jon Taylor -- Stadtische Selbstverwaltung und sozial-politischer Gemeindesektor in Phonikien 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empire / Greta Van Buylaere -- The city-administration of Ugarit / Wilfred H. van Soldt -- New light from an unpublished archive of Meskigalla, Ensi of Adab, housed in the Cornell University collections : professions and labor in the Ur III period / Giuseppe Visicato -- A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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><br/>Primarily in English, with three texts in French and two texts in German. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Municipal government--History--Middle East--To 1500--Congresses.<br/>Cities and towns, Ancient--Middle East--Congresses.<br/>City and town life--History--Middle East--To 1500--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle East--Politics and government--Congresses.<br/>Middle East--History--To 622--Congresses.<br/>Assyria--History--Congresses.<br/>Babylonia--History--Congresses.<br/>Ur (Extinct city)--Congresses.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JS7435  / .R45 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.8/509394