Urbanization and land ownership in the ancient Near East :  a colloquium held at New York University, November 1996, and the Oriental Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 1997 / 
edited by Michael Hudson and Baruch A. Levine. 
 - Cambridge, MA :  Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University,  1999. 
 - 495 p. :  ill., maps ;  23 cm. 
 - Peabody Museum bulletin ;  7 .
 - Peabody Museum bulletin  7. .
<br/><br/> "Volume II in a series sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Long-term Economic Trends and International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (page 453). 
<br/><br/> Space and time in preagricultural Europe and the Near East /  "Town" and "country" in ancient Egypt /  From sacred enclave to temple to city /  Households, land tenure and communications systems in the 6th-4th millennia of Greater Mesopotamia /  The constraints on state and urban form in ancient Mesopotamia /  Urkesh and the question of early Hurrian urbanism /  Thoughts on urban real estate in ancient Mesopotamia /  Alexander Marshack --  Ogden Goelet --  Michael Hudson --  C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky --  Elizabeth C. Stone --  Giorgio Buccellati --  Marc Van De Mieroop.  Land-tenure conditions in Third-Millennium Babylonia /  Economic aspects of land ownership and land use in northern Mesopotamia and Syria from the Late 3rd Millennium to the Neo-Assyrian Period /  Sellers and buyers of urban real estate in south Mesopotamia at the beginning of the 2nd Millennium BC /  Land use in the Sippar region during the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods /  The Egibi family's real estate in Babylon (6th century BC) /  The Biblical "town" as reality and typology /  Piotr Steinkeller --  Carlo Zaccagnini --  Nelli V. Kozyreva --  Muhammed A. Dandamayev --  Cornelia Wunsch --  Baruch A. Levine. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0873659570 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>^^^98067087^ 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Land tenure--History--Middle East--Congresses.<br/>Urbanization--History--Middle East--Congresses.<br/>Agriculture--Economic aspects--History--Middle East--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Conference papers and proceedings<br/>History<br/>Konferenzschrift--New York, NY.--1996<br/>Konferenzschrift--Sankt Petersburg.--1997
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT384.M628  / U73 1996