Missing Digit - 9. The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth
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As Diakonoff[1] (1982) and Gelb (197_) have shown, these public institutions by no means constituted the entire economy. Rather, the Sumerians had what today would be called a mixed economy, a symbiosis between public and private sectors, and also between towns and their quay areas and surrounding countryside. Cities regulated commerce within their urban walls, but let it transpire more or less freely outside the city gates in the harbor and quay areas along the canals, and above all in island entrepôts made sacred for this purpose, such as Dilmun.
What year is missing in the Gelb citation (“Gelb (197_)”), and what work was cited? There were 2 Gelb 1970s works cited in this chapter’s Bibliography, or it may be something else:
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.
I.J. Gelb, “The Arua Institution,” Revue d’Assyriologie, Vol. 66 (1972), pp. 1–32.
(Note: originally the 1969 work was dated 1971, and we updated it to 1969 per our research.)
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- ↑ Igor M. Diakonoff, “The Structure of Near Eastern Society before the Middle of the 2nd Millennium BC,” Oikumene, Vol. 3 (1982), pp. 7–100.
