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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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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