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#AAH2026 Christian Borgen (University of Chicago), “Harvest contracts from the Old Babylonian, Middle Assyrian, and Neo-Assyrian periods”. Pushing back, with receipts, on the early 20th century communis opinio that these contracts (primary those in Old Babylonian, all from Sippar) represent or imply usurious loans, financial precarity, and potential for indenture and labor coercion. Sippar: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/894089