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Communal land tenure was more transitory, being subject to periodic redistribution (Gelb 19__).

Can you help us identify the year and text referred to by “Gelb”? There are multiple options in this chapter’s Bibliography, or it may be something else:

1. I.J. Gelb, “The Ancient Mesopotamian Ration System,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 24 (1965), pp. 230–243.
2. I.J. Gelb, “Approaches to the Study of Ancient Society,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 87, No. 1 (1967), pp. 1–8.
3. I.J. Gelb, “On the Alleged Temple and State Economies in Ancient Mesopotamia,” in Studi in Onore di Edoardo Volterra, Vol. VI (Milan: 1969), pp. 137–154.
4. I.J. Gelb, “The Arua Institution,” Revue d’Assyriologie, Vol. 66 (1972), pp. 1–32.
5. I.J. Gelb, “Ebla and Lagash: Environmental Contrast,” in Harvey Weiss (ed.), The Origins of Cities in Dry-Farming Syria and Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium B.C. (Guilford, Connecticut: 1986), pp. 157–167.

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