| Description |
xv, 370 p. : ill., maps. |
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Babel und Bibel ; 5 |
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Orientalia et classica ; v. XXXI |
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Orientalia et classica ; issue 31.
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Babel und Bibel ; 5.
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| 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." |
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"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 -- 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 ùhazannu 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 -- ùHazannum : the forgotten mayor / Jon Taylor -- Stadtische Selbstverwaltung und sozial-politischer Gemeindesektor in Phonikien und Syrien / Yuli B. Tsirkin -- The role of the ùhazannu 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empire / Greta Van Buylaere -- The city-administration of Ugarit / Wilfred H. van Soldt -- New light from an unpublished archive of Meskigalla, Ensi of Adab, housed in the Cornell University collections : professions and labor in the Ur III period / Giuseppe Visicato -- A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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Language |
Primarily in English, with three texts in French and two texts in German. |
| Subject |
Municipal government -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
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Cities and towns, Ancient -- Middle East -- Congresses.
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City and town life -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
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Middle East -- Politics and government -- Congresses.
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Middle East -- History -- To 622 -- Congresses.
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Assyria -- History -- Congresses.
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Babylonia -- History -- Congresses.
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Ur (Extinct city) -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kogan, Leonid Efimovich.
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Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi gumanitarnyi universitet.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Proceedings of the 53e Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2 |
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Proceedings of the cinquante-troisieme Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2 |
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Proceedings of the 53rd Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2 |
| ISBN |
1575061686 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781575061689 |
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9781575066134 (electronic bk.) |
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