Urbanization & Land Ownership in the Ancient East: A Colloquium Held at New York University, November 1996, and the Oriental Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 1997

, by Hudson, Michael; Levine, Baruch A.

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ISBN: 9780873659574 | 0873659570
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Copyright: 5/1/1999

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Acknowledgments

(2)

Preface

(2)

Introduction The New Economic Archaeology of Urbanization

(10)

Part I Urban Areas as Cosmological and Ritual Centers

Space and Time in Preagricultural Europe and the Near East: The Evidence for Early Structural Complexity

(46)

Alexander Marshack

``Town'' and ``Country'' in Ancient Egypt

(52)

Ogden Goelet

From Sacred Enclave to Temple to City

117

(50)

Michael Hudson

Part II The Archaeology of Mesopotamian Cities

Households, Land Tenure, and Communications Systems in the 6th-4th Millennia of Greater Mesopotamia

167

(36)

C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky

The Constraints on State and Urban Form in Ancient Mesopotamia

203

(26)

Elizabeth C. Stone

Urkesh and the Question of Early Hurrian Urbanism

229

(24)

Giorgio Buccellati

Part III Land Tenure and Real Estate

Thoughts on Urban Real Estate in Ancient Mesopotamia

253

(36)

Marc Van De Mieroop

Land-Tenure Conditions in Third-Millennium Babylonia: The Problem of Regional Variation

289

(42)

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

331

(22)

Carlo Zaccagnini

Sellers and Buyers of Urban Real Estate in South Mesopotamia at the Beginning of the 2nd Millennium BC

353

(10)

Nelli V. Kozyreva

Land Use in the Sippar Region During the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods

363

(28)

Muhammed A. Dandamayev

The Egibi Family's Real Estate in Babylon (6th Century BC)

391

(30)

Cornelia Wunsch

The Biblical ``Town'' as Reality and Typology: Evaluating Biblical Reference to Towns and Their Functions

421

(36)

Baruch A. Levine

Part IV Methodology Discussion and Summary

Methodology Discussion

457

(24)

Summary Review: From Open Lands to Private Ownership

481

(10)

Michael Hudson

Bibliographic Short Titles

491

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Urbanization & Land Ownership in the Ancient East: A Colloquium Held at New York University, November 1996, and the Oriental Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 1997

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