This volume is a collection of twenty-eight studies dedicated to a scholar who has changed the course of research on the period through his publication of innumerable documents. This volume inaugurates a new monograph series, The Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplementary Series (JCSSS), edited by Piotr Michalowski with assistance from the JCS editorial board.

Marcel Sigrist: An Appreciation, Ulla Kasten, List of Works, Franco d'Agostino and Elena Santagati, BM 106145: un nuovo testo da Ummache menziona personale del cantiere navale (m a r -s a ), Lance Allred, Labor Assignments from the City of Girsu, Farouk Al-Rawi, An Ur III Incantation in the British Museum, Nicole Brisch, Messenger Texts in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan, Miguel Civil, An Agricultural Account from Umma, Remco de Maaier, ulgi's Jubilee: Where's The Party?, Douglas Frayne and W. W. Hallo, New Texts from the Reign of Ur-Namma, Steven Garfinkle, Silver and Gold: Merchants and the Economy of the Ur III State, Wolfgang Heimpel and Kent Hillard, Fact and Fiction in YBC 9819 and SET 188 as Sources for the Reality behind the Name of Year 9 of King Shu-Sin of Ur, Jacob Klein, The Brockmon Collection Duplicate of the Sumerian Kinglist (BT 14), Bertrand Lafont, A propos des repas collectifs et banquets (naptanum) a l'epoque d'Ur III, Pietro Mander, Nuovi "Shepherd-Texts" da Lagash, Piotr Michalowski, Observations on "Elam" and "Elamites" in Ur III Times, Manuel Molina, New Ur III Court Records Concerning Slavery, Francesco Pomponio, Ancora un bilancio neo-sumerico di orzo, Seth Richardson, Ningirsu Returns to His Plow: Lagas and Girsu Take Leave of Ur, Walther Sallaberger, Der Eid im Gerichtsverfahren im neusumerischen Umma, Tonia Scharlach, Priestesses, Concubines, and the Daughters of Men: Disentangling the Meaning of the Word l u k u r in Ur III Times, Piotr Steinkeller, Joys of Cooking in Ur III Babylonia, Benjamin Studevent-Hickman, Quantitative Aspects of Land Tenure in Ur III Babylonia, M. Such-Gutierrez, Gesiegelte Urkunden aus der koniglichen Viehverwaltung von Drehem und die Frage der Linienunterteilung und Siegelung dieser Tafeln, Ozaki Tohru, Divine Statues in the Ur III Kingdom and Their "Ka Du8-Ha" Ceremony, Niek Veldhuis, Orthography and Politics: a d d a , "carcass" and k u r 9, "to enter," Lorenzo Verderame, Rassam's Activities at Tello (1879) and the Earliest Acquisition of Neo-Sumerian Tablets in the British Museum, Hartmut Waetzoldt, Die Haltung der Schreiber von Umma zu Konig usuen, Joan Goodnick Westenholz, The Memory of Sargonic Kings under the Third Dynasty of Ur, Claus Wilcke, Der Kauf von Gutern durch den "staatlichen" Haushalt der Provinz Umma zur Zeit der III. Dynastie von Ur: Ein Beitrag zu "Markt und Arbeit im Alten Orient am Ende des 3. Jahrtausends vor Christus," Richard Zettler, Context and Text: Nippur Area TB IV and the Archive of Lama-Palil.