#mesopotamia

[courtesycalling]

Happy mušḫuššu monday everybody

(Photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

[teathattast]

[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.

[maximthejewitch]

That tiny yellow dot is Israel, the one and only Jewish state in the entire world, the size of New Jersey. The people who are against Israel are trying their best to brainwash everyone into believing that this tiny dot is a colonial invader.

Just how ridiculous can they be?

[tinyuglyworld]

Amulet Seal in the Form of a Bull

Sumerian/Mesopotamian c. 3250 BCE.

[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 🥀

[alienbycomics]

A history and mythology lesson reminding you that trans and non-binary people have always existed! [Long post]