From the 21st century B.C. to the 21st century A.D. [Texte imprimé] : proceedings of the International Conference on Neo-Sumerian Studies held in Madrid 22-24 July 2010 / edited by Steven J. Garfinkle and Manuel Molina

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I. Language and sources -- Ur III as a linguistic watershed / MIGUEL CIVIL -- Sumerian adjectival passives using the *im-prefix : the old Babylonian evidence and some possible third millennium precursors / J. CALE JOHNSON -- Hypotactic and paratactic complementation in Sumerian Ditilla texts / FUMI KARAHASHI -- On the location of Iri-Saĝrig / MANUEL MOLINA -- The archive of Iri-Saĝrig/Āl-Šarrākī / DAVID I. OWEN -- II. Administration and ideology -- Some considerations on the management of an administrative structure in Ur III Mesopotamia : the case of mar-sa / SERGIO ALIVERNINI -- The tenure of provincial governors : some observations / LANCE ALLRED -- Symbols and bureaucratic performances in the Ur III administrative sphere : an interpretation through data mining / ALESSANDRO DI LUDOVICO -- The third dynasty of Ur and the limits of state power in early Mesopotamia / STEVEN GARFINKLE -- Networks of authority and power in Ur III times / PIOTR MICHALOWSKI -- Prince Etel-pū-Dagān, Son of Šulgi / PALMIRO NOTIZIA -- The Ur III administration : workers, messengers, and sons / FRANCO POMPONIO -- Šulgi meets Stalin : comparative propaganda as a tool of mining the Šulgi hymns for historical data / LUD.K VACIN -- III. Economy and society -- The control of copper and bronze objects in Umma during the Ur III period / FRANCO D'AGOSTINO AND FRANCESCA GORELLO -- Le systeme apres-recolte dans l'hydro-agriculture mesopotamienne a la fin du IIIe millenaire avant notre ère / JEAN-PIERRE GREGOIRE -- The barbers of Iri-Saĝrig / ALEXANDRA KLEINERMAN -- Absence from work in Ur III Umma : reasons and terminology / NATALIA KOSLOVA -- The manufacture of a statue of Nanaja : Mesopotamian jewellery-making techniques at the end of the third millennium B.C. / PAOLA PAOLETTI -- Corvee labor in Ur III times / PIOTR STEINKELLER -- Ikalla, scribe of (wool) textiles and linen / LORENZO VERDERAME AND GABRIELLA SPADA -- The regular offerings of lambs and kids for deities and the é-uz-ga during the reign of Šulgi : a study of the mu-tum and zi-ga/ba-zi texts from the Animal Center / WU YUHONG and LI XUEYAN -- Program of the conference