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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-Sa�grig / MANUEL MOLINA -- The archive of Iri-Sa�grig/�Al-�Sarr�ak�i / 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-p�u-Dag�an, Son of �Sulgi / PALMIRO NOTIZIA -- The Ur III administration : workers, messengers, and sons / FRANCO POMPONIO -- �Sulgi meets Stalin : comparative propaganda as a tool of mining the �Sulgi 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 �ere / JEAN-PIERRE GREGOIRE -- The barbers of Iri-Sa�grig / 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 �e-uz-ga during the reign of �Sulgi : 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.

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