Description
The first half of the proceedings, Language within the Ancient Near East (in 2 parts), is to be had here. A workshop volume is to be had here.
The topic of the meetings in St. Petersburg component of the 53e RAI was once, as the title indicates, city administration. Of the 19 papers published on this volume, 2 are according to plenary, opening papers; 16 speak about more than a few aspects of administration from very early times in geographic regions stretching from the extraordinary south of Mesopotamia, during the middle and upper Euphrates, to Ugarit; and 3 speak about labor and professions within the Ur III period.