Foreword
Abbreviations
Program
Welcome to Participants of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique
Grant Frame
Plenary Papers
Woolley’s Excavations at Ur: New Perspectives from Artifact Inventories, Field Records, and Archival Documentation
Richard L. Zettler
Sîn-City: New Light from Old Excavations at Ur
Jonathan Taylor
Bad Moon Rising: The Changing Fortunes of Early Second-Millennium BCE Ur
Katrien De Graef
Conference Papers (Alphabetical by Author)
The Moon Watching Over the Sun and Venus: Revisiting the Attributes and Functions of Nanna/S.n in Mesopotamia
Isabel Gomes de Almeida & Maria de Fátima Rosa
Detecting Social Tensions in the Archaeological Record: Official and Vernacular Figurine-Making Traditions at Ur in the First Millennium BCE
Anastasia Amrhein
Old Babylonian Terracottas from Ur: Ancient and New Perspectives
Laura Battini
The City of Ur and the Neo-Babylonian Empire
Paul-Alain Beaulieu
The Ziqqurats of Ur and Babylon and the Place Where the Ark Moors After the Flood (The Epic of Gilgameš XI 158)
Daniel Bodi
Epigraphy of Ur: Past, Present, and Future
Dominique Charpin
Signs from Silence: Ur of the First Sumerians (Late Uruk Through ED I)
Petr Charvát
Breakers and Enforcers of the Oath of the King
Laura Culbertson
Utopic and Dystopic Images in Mesopotamian Literature: The Conflict Between Order and Chaos in Ur III
Maria de Fátima Rosa & Isabel Gomes de Almeida
In Search of Ur in iqqur īpuš
Jeanette C. Fincke
The Kingdom as Sheepfold: Frontier Strategy Under the Third Dynasty of Ur; A View from the Center
Steven J. Garfinkle
From Uruk to Ur: Automated Matching of Virtual Tablet Fragments
Erlend Gehlken, Tim Collins, Sandra Woolley, Laurence Hanes, Andrew Lewis, Luis Hernandez-Munoz, and Eugene Ch’ng
The City of Ur: The Possibilities for Statistical Analysis on the Use of Space in Domestic Households
Nicole Grunert
Trace Elements and Isotopes: The Origin of Gold from Ur from a Geochemical Point of View
Moritz Jansen, Andreas Hauptmann, Sabine Klein, and Richard L. Zettler
Science and Technology: Using Ur-Online to Aid in Scientific Analysis
Kyra Kaercher and Tessa de Alarcon
Towards Archival Reconstruction of Ur III Cuneiform Tablets
Yudong Liu and James Hearne
Excavating Ur in Children’s Literature
Kevin M. McGeough and Elizabeth A. Galway
Aspekte der Sklaverei im altbabylonischen Ur: Untersuchungen zu den a-ru-a-Texten
Christin Möllenbeck
Glyptic Art from the Ur III to the Šimaški Periods: Heritage and Overtaking of the Models
Clélia Paladre
The Status of Real Estate in Neo-Babylonian Ur: The Case of the Gallābu Family
Olga V. Popova
Palace and “Private” Sectors in Old Babylonian Ur
Mitchell S. Rothman
Materiality and Mark-Making: Sealing and Community in Early Dynastic Ur
Sarah J. Scott
Eclipse of a King: A New Interpretation of the Bull-Headed Lyre
JoAnn Scurlock
Local and Imported Religion at Ur Late in the Reign of Shulgi
Tonia M. Sharlach
The Third Millennium Banquet Scene at Ur and Its Archaeological Correlates
Diana L. Stein
New Excavations at Ur
Elizabeth C. Stone, Paul Zimansky, Katheryn Twiss, Michael Charles, and Melina Seabrook
Ur and Other Cities in Some Sumerian and Akkadian Personal Names: The Pre-Sargonic and Sargonic Periods
Jan Tavernier
Implications of Intertextuality: Erra and Išum and the Lamentation Over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur
Selena Wisnom
Was the Karzida of Ur’s Akītu Festival at Tell Sakhariya?
Paul Zimansky
