(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)
(gods in blue)
This is a mortgage on real estate in security for a loan. The interest was at the rate of eleven and one-third per cent.
ONE mana of money, a sum belonging to Iqisha-Marduk,
son of Kalab-Sin, (is loaned) unto Nabu-etir,
son of _____, son of _____.
Yearly the amount of the mana shall increase its sum by seven shekels of money.
His field near the gate of Bel (Marduk) is Iqisha-Marduk’s pledge.
(This document bears the name of four witnesses, and is dated) at Babylon,
Tammuz twenty-seventh, in the fourteenth year of Nabopolassar,
(the father of Nebuchadnezzar).