Proceedings of the 53th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale

Vol. 2: City Administration in the Ancient Near East

Leonid E Kogan editor Natalia Koslova editor Sergey Loesov editor Serguei Tishchenko editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press

Published:30th Jun '10

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Proceedings of the 53th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale cover

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.

The first half of the proceedings, Language in the Ancient Near East (in 2 parts), is available via the “also of interest” link at the bottom of the page.

ISBN: 9781575061689

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm

Weight: 862g

384 pages