City Administration in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 53e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Volume 2

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Russian State University for the Humanities, 2010 - Assyria - 370 pages

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.