For the two other people in the world besides myself who are interested in the Ur III period, here is info about and the table of contents of the Festschrift in honor of David Owen who in my estimation is the dean of Ur III studies in North America. Dr. Owen is not only an excellent scholar but also a very kind and generous man. He was a great help to me as I edited the Carnegie Museum’s collection of Ur III tablets.

Why Should Someone Who Knows Something Conceal It?
Cuneiform Studies in Honor of David I. Owen on his 70th Birthday

Edited by Alexandra Kleinerman & Jack M. Sasson
CDL Press
Bethesda 2010
ISBN 9781934309308
$60.00

??GETTING THE WORD OUT
LETTER-ORDERS AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE THIRD DYNASTY OF UR
Lance Allred

MEN AT WAR IN THE EBLA PERIOD
ON THE UNEVENNESS OF THE WRITTEN DOCUMENTS
Alfonso Archi

DATES (?) IN THE EBLA TEXTS (SYRIA 24TH CENTURY BCE)
Maria Giovanna Biga

AROMATA FÜR DUFTÖL
Hagan Brunke and Walther Sallaberger

MORE SARGONIC ADMINISTRATIVE TEXTS
Mark E. Cohen

NAMING UR III YEARS
Jacob L. Dahl

BU!
Robert K. Englund

A WOMAN MOST FAIR: INVESTIGATING
THE MESSAGE OF LUDINGIRA TO HIS MOTHER
Alhena Gadotti

THE ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY MESOPOTAMIA
INFORMATION, WEALTH, AND ARCHIVES IN THE UR III PERIOD
Steven J. Garfinkle

DIE KÖNIGSINSCHRIFTEN DES III. JAHRTAUSANDS IM BRITISH MUSEUM
EIN ERSTER BERICHT UND FÜNF NEUE TEXTE
M. Such-Gutiérrez

LEFT TO THEMSELVES
WAIFS IN THE TIME OF THE THIRD DYNASTY OF UR
Wolfgang Heimpel

SUR QUELQUES DOSSIERS DES ARCHIVES DE GIRSU
Bertrand Lafont

KASSITE MERCENARIES AT ABIEfiU°’S FORTRESS
Karel van Lerberghe and Gabriella Voet

THE SEAL OF AYALATUM AND THE DYNASTY OF LARSA
Rudolf H. Mayr

WHERE’S AL?
HUMOR AND POETICS IN THE HYMN TO THE HOE
Piotr Michalowski

COURT RECORDS FROM UMMA
Manuel Molina

LES NOMS D’ANNÉ DU RÈGNE DU ROI fiULGI
Marcel Sigrist

MORE ON THE ARCHAIC WRITING OF THE NAME OF ENLIL/NIPPUR
Piotr Steinkeller

DIE BEDEUTUNG VON igi–sa5/sa55/sag9/sag10
Hartmut Waetzoldt

ILLICIT CUNEIFORM TABLETS
HEIRLOOMS OR STOLEN GOODS?
Aage Westenholz