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COURTESY OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM

THE FAMILY’S INTEREST. A tablet from Tel Hadid records a loan, wherein the borrower put up his wife and sister as collateral security. Further, the borrower agreed to pay a massive amount of interest—a third of the original borrowed sum—if he didn’t pay on time. Written in Akkadian, the tablet dates to the spring of 664 B.C.E. It provides insight into the daily life of the deportees at Tel Hadid.