Transcription of a ‘Jubilee’ debt cancellation – a periodical decree as instituted by Sumerian and later Babylonian kings, in order to free their citizens of debts and slavery, and relieve social tension. Partial representation of the Babylonian Hammurabi Codex. Mesopotamia, ca 1762 BC. Source: http://www.cadtm.org/The-Long-Tradition-of-Debt