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.
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TextSeries: Peabody Museum bulletin ; 7.Publication details: Cambridge, MA : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1999. Description: 495 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: 0873659570Subject(s): Land tenure -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses | Urbanization -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses | Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Middle East -- History -- CongressesGenre/Form: Conference papers and proceedings | History | Konferenzschrift -- 1996 -- New York, NY. | Konferenzschrift -- 1997 -- Sankt Petersburg.LOC classification: HT384.M628 | U73 1996| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"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."
Includes bibliographical references (page 453).
Space and time in preagricultural Europe and the Near East / Alexander Marshack -- "Town" and "country" in ancient Egypt / Ogden Goelet -- From sacred enclave to temple to city / Michael Hudson -- Households, land tenure and communications systems in the 6th-4th millennia of Greater Mesopotamia / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -- The constraints on state and urban form in ancient Mesopotamia / Elizabeth C. Stone -- Urkesh and the question of early Hurrian urbanism / Giorgio Buccellati -- Thoughts on urban real estate in ancient Mesopotamia / Marc Van De Mieroop.
Land-tenure conditions in Third-Millennium Babylonia / Piotr Steinkeller -- Economic aspects of land ownership and land use in northern Mesopotamia and Syria from the Late 3rd Millennium to the Neo-Assyrian Period / Carlo Zaccagnini -- Sellers and buyers of urban real estate in south Mesopotamia at the beginning of the 2nd Millennium BC / Nelli V. Kozyreva -- Land use in the Sippar region during the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods / Muhammed A. Dandamayev -- The Egibi family's real estate in Babylon (6th century BC) / Cornelia Wunsch -- The Biblical "town" as reality and typology / Baruch A. Levine.