City administration in the ancient Near East [[electronic resource] ] : proceedings of the 53e Rencontre assyriologique internationale. Vol. 2 / / edited by L. Kogan ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457350903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Winona Lake, Ind., : Eisenbrauns, 2010
• ISBN: 1-57506-613-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Collana: Babel und Bibel ; ; 5; Orientalia et classica ; ; v. XXXI
• Altri autori (Persone): KoganLeonid Efimovich
• Disciplina: 320.8/509394
• Soggetti: Municipal government - Middle East - History - To 1500; Cities and towns, Ancient - Middle East; City and town life - Middle East - History - To 1500; Electronic books.; Middle East Politics and government Congresses; Middle East History To 622 Congresses; Assyria History Congresses; Babylonia History Congresses; Ur (Extinct city) Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: 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."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.