Well somebody has to keep tabs on dodgy copper merchants....
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/15/stone-tablets-mesopotamia-iraq-red-tape-bureaucracy
I got so many great ideas for how to fix the grommet on this quilted backpack, and I tried a bunch, but ultimately realized I should just cut it off. This bag is about an inch shorter than the the pattern called for, but still roomy
I made the embroidery font myself, adding the cuneiform-like triangles to a simple alphabet. Lots of jump threads to trim but worth it! Going to be fun to carry this around
So the meme-themed party at work got voted down. Which is a pity, and now I wanna share my costume idea because I thought it was funny:
I was going to wear a shirt advertising "Ea-Nasir's Fine Quality Copper", and a whole lot of cheap plastic jewelry spray-painted to a copper color. Over the course of the evening the paint was going to start rubbing off.
"They doxxed Ea-Nāsir
Andrew A. N. Deloucas: Ea-Nāsir lived in n. Old Street (this is a modern name completely fabricated by Sir Leonard Wooley, the excavator at the time) of area AH. The home was finely built and stood with an area of 110 m2, and average home in this neighborhood being about 70 m2."
@lapis Everything comes back to Ea Nasir, everything....#Monsterdon #EaNasir
Well, did dissatisfied customers put stylus to clay thousands of years ago to complain about poor quality #perovskite?
One of the primary reasons I still use Facebook is for the Bronze Age Memes. Today I got invited to..
#EaNasir
@floatybirb low quality copper leading to an economic then social collapse.
#EaNasir
#EaNasir’s famous tablet is pretty small (11.60x5cm / 4.5”x2”), but says all this:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1953-0411-71
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Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message:
When you came, you said to me as follows: ‘I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots.’ You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: ‘If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!’
What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas.
How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full.
Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.”
