Proceedings of the 53e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale: City Administration in the Ancient Near East
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Opening Lectures -- "He put in order the accounts …" -- Être chef d'un état amorrite -- City Administration in the Ancient Near East -- Administration in Texts from the First Sealand Dynasty -- City Administration in Poetry -- Between City Institutions and Markets: -- L'administration de Chagar Bazar (Ašnakkum) à l'époque de Samsi-Addu -- How to Control Nomads? -- The Sargonic "Archive" of Me-sag, Cup-bearer of Adab -- Le hazannu à Mari et sur le Moyen-Euphrate -- From Oral Promise to Written Receipt -- Verschenkte Städte - Königliche Landschenkungen an Götter und Menschen -- Hazannum: The Forgotten Mayor -- Städtische Selbstverwaltung und sozial-politischer Gemeindesektor in Phönikien und Syrien -- The Role of the hazannu in the Neo-Assyrian Empire -- The City-Administration of Ugarit -- New Light from an Unpublished Archive of Meskigalla, Ensi of Adab, Housed in the Cornell University Collections -- Professions and Labor in the Ur III Period -- A Babylonian Gang of Potters -- What Work Did the Damgars Do? -- Towards a Definition of Ur III Labor -- Administration of the Irrigation Fee in Umma during the Ur III Period (ca. 2112-2004 BCE) -- Abbreviations of Periodicals, Reference Works, Series, and Sources.