#ea nasir

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

[donotfeedthewildauthor]

I was scrolling through tiktok and heard "Ea-Nasir" and I knew I had to share lol

[a-s-fischer]

If you want a good object lesson about what we can and can't know about the past, we don't know Ea-Nasir was a dishonest merchant selling shoddy goods.

What we know is we have found a cache of complaint tablets about him selling low quality copper as high quality, in a site that was probably his own residence. We know multiple people complained he was a cheat. It's entirely possible they were right. It's also entirely possible that he kept these complaint letters as records of people he would no longer do business with, because they had made accusations and threats in order to bully him into giving them free copper. That is an equally valid interpretation of the evidence.

My point is not that we have maligned Ea-Nasir, my point is that thousands of years later, we do not and cannot know.

[peaceheather]

[iamthepulta]

What's the first question that really pops into peoples' minds about Ea-Nasir? I'm trying to write this history down, but I'm struggling.

[legbootlegit]

wth? I got some 1oz copper bars from this metals merchant and they look to be very poor quality 😞

I'd heard good things about this brand (been around a long time!) but I guess their quality is substandard 😕

I mean what the heck is this, the copper is sealed in an assay and tarnished like crazy...

And support is non-existent, looks like I need to get a clay tablet just to be able to complain 🥀

[archaeologysucks]

I saw this on Twitter, and do not know the source, but I think it belongs here.

[dduane]

Via stavvers.bsky.social: "ea nasir is back baby awooo"