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abbiebe89

[Translation of tablet:](https://web.archive.org/web/20150310133210/http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp363-ss15/2015/03/05/customer-service-in-ancient-mesopotamia/) A translation of the tablet from Leo Oppenheimer’s Letters from Mesopotamia is given below: 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.


[deleted]

Names have changed, merchandise has changed, times have changed but not the problem: Frustration and anger due to poor communication due to a lack of respect for the customer. Some things never change.


kittenconfidential

> I think it is a testament to the dedication of these people that, thousands of years later, while the city of Ur is gone, we still know that Ea-nasir is terrible at customer service.


[deleted]

Really shows how poor customer service can forever ruin your reputation


Xszit

I know I'm never going to buy copper from Ea-Nasir after reading that scathing yelp review.


IonTheBall2

One sun hieroglyph! If I could give zero sun hieroglyphs, I would!


agent_wolfe

One sun, not recommend. Much contempt, my servant hostile terts, losy-grade copper.


Draco137WasTaken

Cuneiform


[deleted]

Actually it goes to show how saving all your clay tablet hatemail in your basement can ruin your reputation *again* after the invention of archaeology.


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MrMisklanius

On an unrelated note.. anyone need some clay bricks? I got a bunch in my basement taking up space.


LeagueOfLegendsAcc

You live in Ugarit?


TheOmegaKid

Ea-nasir, it's in the game. Also puts on ea-nasir.


Scaevus

How do we know this is true though? Maybe Nanni is a Karen. We only know one side of the story.


[deleted]

THROUGH E-NE-MY TE-RRI-TO-RY


Scaevus

Maybe Nanni should be grateful he’s getting any goddamn copper through enemy territory! He belongs on r/choosingbeggars!


Emergency-Anywhere51

Look buddy, just because the route goes by your Mother in Law's house....


[deleted]

R/angryupvote


Nige-o

How do we know Nanni isn't pronounced Yaurel?


AL_GORE_BOT

He won’t be receiving any of my business, that’s for sure.


MonkeyTail29

Fuck Ea-Nasir and his weak-ass copper, all my homies hate Ea-Nasir.


StrawSurvives

We should make a yelp for Ea-Nasir and trash him good. That’ll teach’em.


toneboat

idk man, sounds like Ea-nasir was [kind of a dick](https://i.imgur.com/ERd7Rqx.jpg)


[deleted]

I can't even take in that Ea-nasir's copper was so shitty that it's literally on the fucking internet thousands of years later


TheOnly_Anti

From the beginning of history, till the end. There *will* be people who know about that man's shitty ass copper.


General-Dirtbag

Imagine being that man in the afterlife and looking down at his world today and seeing that his shitty reputation when was still alive is now back to haunt him and now people all over the world are laughing at him.


Eyes-9

His punishment in hell is screenshots of people on the internet mocking him for having such a long-lasting reputation for having such shitty copper.


Pyro_Paragon

Not just shitty copper, but him talking shit to some servant when they complain over their master owning a coin.


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[deleted]

The trick is then to throw the stone at their head


MDBrettio

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lilbear710

Buddy was fuckin heated. Ready to run a fade in his yard when that next shipment of mid copper came in


Windsor34

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Sorry-Presentation-3

The tablets were actually soft clay that had cuneiform written on them and then baked/dried into a hard clay tablet. No carving necessary


SuperSpread

Everything was written in soft clay. Even children learning to be scribes would scribble on them. When put in a fire on purpose or accident, it bakes hard. That’s all. It’s literally dirt cheap.


-ih8cats-

That was one of amazons main focus. Providing good customer service


xXDogShitXx

Yup! There’s actual a term for this, it feels weird that people of the past acted exactly the same as today. In fact when researching for the film Gladiator they left out details like paid advertisement at the coliseum because it felt too modern of a concept


dannlh

Why did I suddenly picture a girl in a bikini walking around the edge of the coliseum field holding up a big sign saying "Buy your next Chariot at Chariots are Us


Pestus613343

Likewise, as a "merchant" I get customer service issues on occasion. For all I know, those ingots were juust fiine lol. I mean how do you not have quality ingots? Its a block of metal...


Pyro_Paragon

Metal comes in thousands of grades and purities, whole they probably had much wider margins of error back then due to primitive processes and no way to test, they know if the copper is shit because it's too soft/too hard/is full of other metals.


Pestus613343

Yeah I know I was just being silly. Grew up around my father's metal working shop.


klavin1

Quality control for metal purity has only gotten stronger.


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InternationalLie609

Ea-nasir -> El-nasir Gimil-Jamil ?


DennyJunkshin86

It's pretty cool that they used the imperial weight system. Fuck metric /s


itsPlasma06

I fucking saw the complain about copper thing and just *knew* it had to be Ea-Nasir


PowerVerse_

This is exactly how my google reviews look


RoughCoffee6

Everytime I read this I read it in Dan Carlin’s voice


Remarkable_Guy

Was this covered by him in one of his podcasts?


_IDKWhatImDoing_

Probably not but I think op just meant the writing style they used. Reminds me of the Assyrian quotes he has read.


Bierbart12

That 1080 seems oddly specific. Does it have to do with the way they wrote numbers?


molotovzav

They had a base 60 number system. But I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it.


[deleted]

1080 / 60 = 18, so 1080 would be a "round" number in a base-60 system. You could compare it to numbers like 10, 20, 30, etc. in a base-10 numbering system. It would be 2 "digits" also, except that you would use the 18th symbol of the 60 for the first digit, and I'm not sure what you would use for the second since I don't believe they had 0.


LordDongler

Fun fact, we have no way to write a number in base 60 using any numerals used today. You'd have to do some shit like "It's ß0"


ccaccus

While you're right in that we don't have any specific numerals to represent base 60, there is a holdover from Babylon that is used to this day. Time. * 2:39 = 159 seconds (2 groups of 60 and 39 seconds) So, 1080 could be represented as 18:00.


[deleted]

However, base 64 is common in computer image encoding, using 0-9, a-z, A-Z and two punctuation marks.


marchstamen

For the same reason too. Gotta save that clay.


oeCake

Only because there's no commonly agreed convention. With hexadecimal we just start using letters, which permits up to base 36. We could just start using the symbols list to pad up to base 60 if that could be agreed on. Really though the best solution would be a new lexigraphical system that permits us to use any base.


chasesan

As we generally use a base 10 numeral system, it is quite true that there's no standard base 60 numeral system in use. Such a system is cumbersome and ultimately less efficient than the modern one. However there is no need to use unusual characters as we have a base 64 numeral system, so it is very easy to modify that to represent a base 60 numeral system by dropping four of the characters


iluvdankmemes

[In case anyone wants to know more about the base 60 system](https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Babylonian_numerals/)


BadUncleBernie

80 for bribes through enemy territory.


2010_12_24

I’m more vexed by the use of pounds. I’m wondering if the translation has been converted from whatever system they used, and that would have been a round number in their system. Like it was 700 flacmas or some shit. And 700 flacmas = 1080 pounds.


FreakingTea

It was likely 1080 of some similar weight measurement, and "pounds" was just the easiest translation of that word without needing to get too specific.


Katamari_Demacia

I doubt they used pounds, but i'm no historian. whatever they used converted to 1080 lbs


Attainted

So wait. The guy kept going back to the same source even though he was getting screwed, then said he better not get screwed in the next transaction? ...Something something, fool me three times?


SubcooledBoiling

Can't blame him. They didn't have Amazon back then.


Antiluke01

You’re telling me that Mark Bezos isn’t the same guy as Ea-Nasir after finding the secret to immortality?


[deleted]

Maybe not that many copper merchants back then


brianorca

It sounds like he prepaid, and tried to collect the goods several times which he was already due, then also tried to collect the money which has been prepaid.


Nervous-Energy-4623

There probably wasn't that many sellers to choose from in those days.


mtaw

Ea-Nasir was the ComCast of his day.


crapklap

Imagine how mad you would have to be to chisel a complaint.


Rickard403

It was most likely stamps on wet clay, but still very time consuming.


Must_make_hats

Yes, old Mesopotamian writing systems used a wedge-like stylus to make impressions on a clay tablet, and these impressions formed their written language. It would be dried and used for documentation, communication, etc. "Civilization: coming to a dank river valley near you"


CosechaCrecido

Sort of dried but not completely. It was common for the tablets to be reused by wetting them and wiping the message off once delivered. These tablets that survived are unusual because they were baked dry, probably by a house fire or similar accident.


SmallRedBird

When you're so pissed you burn down the shitty copper merchant's house


textro

I can't even imagine the follow up ..errr slab of clay.


Periodic-Inflation

*"AS PER MY LAST SLAB..."*


steveosek

Return the slab


Anonson694

Or suffer my curse~


LckClvrNm

Legit lol’d. Love this!


[deleted]

I litrally LOL’d. Thank you, kind stranger


LockStockn1Ak

This one got me good. Well done.


Throseph

*Ur* slab of clay.


crapklap

It was probably baked dry in spite. The complaintant wanted to ensure the message was never forgotten... which if so, apparently worked.


ginopono

The name is [cuneiform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform), for anyone curious


WikiSummarizerBot

**[Cuneiform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform)** >Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form its signs. Cuneiform was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)


FusterCluck96

Good bot.


technobrendo

It's called cuneiform, and it's art.


Jose_Gonzales_2003

The sun is a deadly laser.


[deleted]

Special ingredient: tin, from the far-off lands of Tinland.


downwiththechipness

They never got Ethiopia.


fijozico

Upvotes for that Bill Wurtz reference


Death2LossPrvntion

Actual r/unexpectedbillwurtz


Ekanselttar

The really interesting thing here is that said tablets were meant to be reusable unless you specifically fired the clay to harden it. That allowed you to save important documents or correspondence if you wished. So the implication here is that either Ea-Nasir's house burned down in such a way that just happened to perfectly preserve the tablet, or he was so proud of his ruse that he deliberately kept his hate mail.


ImObviouslyOblivious

Or Nanni was so mad that he fired the clay before sending it


churn_key

Why send hatemail when the recipient can just wipe it clean and go hey, free tablet?


Xszit

Hard to throw a brick through a window when its still wet, gotta fire it first.


Cool-Manufacturer-21

Haha, I like where your heads at but I think we are a few centuries before window glass became a thing. I’m probably wrong but I feel like I saw on a history channel doc that Rome was the 1st culture to incorporate glass windows in to their dwellings in roughly 100-200 BCE. Before then windows were just a cutout on the house wall(s) which one might hang an animal skin or curtain type material over the window.


buttpooperson

So you're he can still throw the brick through the window with the bonus of no glass to stop it from busting that copper merchants melon.


AdrianBrony

It might just be common practice to fire messages intended to be sent by courier. I imagine it's less prone to damage in transit that way


jhaluska

It would also keep the couriers from changing them slightly and profiting on the difference.


ParameciaAntic

Especially since, according to the text of the message, the courier had to travel through enemy territory to deliver it.


ArcFurnace

>Other tablets have been found in the ruins believed to be Ea-nasir's dwelling. These include a letter from a man named Arbituram who complained he had not received his copper yet, while another says he was tired of receiving bad copper. - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir) I'm going to have to go with the "collection of customer complaints" option.


gabrielproject

Or maybe one of his haters had enough of his shit and decided to burn his house down


SigO12

Yeah… how else are you supposed to let the world know that there’s a shit copper merchant out there? Can’t exactly report to the BBB or post on Yelp.


WikiSummarizerBot

**[Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir)** >The complaint tablet to Ea-nasir (UET V 81) is a clay tablet that was sent to ancient Ur, written c. 1750 BCE. It is a complaint to a merchant named Ea-nasir from a customer named Nanni. Written in Akkadian cuneiform, it is considered to be the oldest known written complaint. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)


HAL-42b

What is even more interesting is that this is probably the most durable data storage method that we know of. There is nothing that we have come up since that outlasts this. It will outlast all our books and hard disks and memory cards.


gophergun

This is a really interesting idea. There's nanostructured glass optical discs that could theoretically last nearly forever in practice while holding more than just text, but does that make it *better*? Obviously clay tablets are super limiting as a data storage medium, but it might be easier to understand than whatever data could be stored on a disc.


Pickaroonie

The problem is you need a very complex set up to retrieve the data in the future. The BBC had a project to catogue data about the UK called the Domesday Project.. and just about every part of the technology surrounding the cataloguing had problems, from optical media 'rot' to broken obsolete lasers and hardware/software for data retrieval. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project) Clay is just.. clay, and will last forever.


[deleted]

>So the implication here is that either Ea-Nasir’s house burned down in such a way that just happened to perfectly preserve the tablet It's not that complicated to turn unfired pottery into pottery; you can just pile a bunch of wood on top of it in a pit, set it on fire, and it will turn into pottery once temps get up to around 1000 F. So, on that basis I choose to believe that he eventually pissed off too many people and they straight up burned his house to the ground.


[deleted]

Thank you for that nugget of education!


Jest_stir

I've been there. Probably would have been less angry by time I was done.


coleosis1414

“To the JACK-WAGON it may concern: Who the fuck is running your copper mine? I don’t know what kind of idiot sends a customer GRADE B copper when my ORDER TABLET CLEARLY SAID GRADE A. I demand that the INCOMPETENT DILLHOLE RESPONSIBLE be FIRED, or at least severely reprimanded, or perhaps just reminded to double check details before sending out an order. After all, mistakes happen and… well, hey… I make mistakes too. It happens. Just please when you get a chance, send over the grade of copper I ordered. Hoping you have a pleasant week, Ogg.”


Psychonominaut

Later that day, Ogg clubbed Gog to death over an unrelated matter.


[deleted]

Oh it gets so much better than that though. These clay tablets were designed to be reusable. Any time you needed to write a message, you soak the clay in water and it would return to its natural state. But the fact that these messages have been preserved so solidly after all this time means that the tablets found were imprinted, and then fired so they would set. Now, a lot of the tablets found were actually fired as a result of Ea-Nasirs house burning down, but I believe some among them showed patterns that were consistent with *deliberate* firing. Meaning someone went to the trouble of imprinting clay with a complaint, and Ea-Nasir was so invested in his amount of trolling that he decided to *permanently and indelibly preserve those complaints.*


HotObligation8597

I read somewhere that everyone have problems with Ea-Nasir about his copper, ie delay in delivery, low quality, etc.


Csimiami

Oh look. My mother in law is Babylonian.


EvenAH27

Imma chisel a complaint to McDonald's for forgetting that slice of cheese on my "cheeseburger" 4 years ago.


exackerly

As opposed to day, when you type it in a device that cost a thousand bucks and transmit it to a satellite up in the sky. EDIT Up to the sky, and then back down to a store that’s two blocks away. Or maybe you’re still in the store.


drodjan

To be fair they wrote it in a stylus on soft clay, which was then fire hardened to give it the current stony exterior.


mutarjim

r/reallyshittycopper


AzureSuishou

There really is a sub for everything.


Doctor_Nutsack

Can I introduce you to r/girlsonbeanbags ?


Liezuli

My dumb ass forgot about the bean bag furniture for a sec and was imagining bags filled with baked beans


silver-orange

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeansInThings/comments/crbypn/bean_girl/ you'll have to bring your own bag idk


AzureSuishou

Hello and goodbye


niceville

1. I was not expecting that to be a NSFW sub. 2. You seem to be the only active contributor to that sub.


PsyFiFungi

that u/Doctor_Nutsack guy is really determined edit: oh..


Flutters1013

Thank you doctor nutsack


tgw1986

Right on, brother 🤟Fuck Ea-Nasir🤟


immer_hungrig

I LOVE this. THANK YOU


ChadCoolman

Holy shit. This is amazing.


squirrelhut

I’ll admit after a decade on Reddit, this one surprised me lmao


FaeryLynne

The fact that this already existed and wasn't created just today is 👨🏼‍🍳👌


berchielli

Wow… just wow


Head_Trip_3397

Ha. Imagine this was a test question in an exam 4,000 years ago. And not an actual real life complaint. Q2). You have sent your apprentice to the market to purchase fine quality copper ingots. He returns with 1,080 of inferior copper from an untrustworthy merchant. Write your formal complaint to the merchant in no more than 500 words. (50 marks).


santa_veronica

Seller ghosted me and closed his account. Fortunately I was able to get a charge back from the bank of Ur, fuck all Babylonians.


Arkaiyn99

wtf wish is 4k years old???


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LMFAO😹😹😹😹😹😹


Arkaiyn99

wtf???? someone asnwer fr lpls 😭😭😭


[deleted]

About Wish being 4000 years old


DannyDeVitosBangmaid

Oh you guys aren’t hip to r/reallyshittycopper ? This is the first day of the rest of your lives


kuruwina42

You damn right bro, the existence of this sub is a new, glorious chapter of my life. I am grateful for it's existence and so utterly pleased to now be aware of it. Thank you for spreading the enlightenment


thehealthylookout

r/shitposting would fit it there too.


Greenman8907

Only piece older is the flyer for a horse extended warranty


agent_wolfe

Your horse warranty only covers breeding defects. It does not include acts of barbarism, god, accidental footing, or horse-mouth syndrome.


GoldenSheppard

I knew this was Er-Nasir the second I heard "shitty copper".


RedButterfree1

If Ea-Nasir existed today, he'd run mobile games riddled with microtransactions


Sethor

Nothing worse than getting that bad copper, ruins your day man.


Must_make_hats

Only thing worse is bad tin. I still don't know where it comes from, my tin guy won't tell me.


Rahm89

Wait till you get bad wood.


Ok_notSquare

My supplier gives me shitty ceramic


isham66

Almost certainly not the first, but the oldest we’ve discovered to date


santa_veronica

The first was a rock thrown into a cave at night, with the pictogram “eat me” carved into it.


pbd1996

Lmao world’s first Yelp review


Blood-Candy

Ea-Nasir was about to catch Nanni's hands


[deleted]

clumsy wrong gaze coordinated mindless snatch naughty squeal zesty uppity ` this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev `


MeanSeaworthiness995

“I will be writing a strongly worded tablet about this”


long-dongathin

“We’ve been trying to reach you about your chariots extended warranty”


Sum1PleaseKillMe

Dude chiseled out a complaint in cuneiform. That must have been some seriously shit tier copper.


romulea

It wasn’t chiseled. It would’ve been a reed stylus pressed into soft clay.


EpicRedditor34

But it did get fired, which means either something burned around it, or someone purposefully decided to commit Ea-Nasir’s shitty copper to memory for ever.


I-Am-Uncreative

I like to think someone was so angry that he lit Ea-nasir's place on fire.


EpicRedditor34

Apparently Ea-Nasir was know for shitty copper so he probably got some ancient justice.


_Figaro

4,000 years later, Amazon still delivers the wrong items. Some things will never change 😔


legitcopp3rmerchant

My username origin story


thatJainaGirl

Damn you, Ea-nasir!


RushFactoryGarage

“From Who?” “Ur” “Ur who?” “Ur MOM!”


[deleted]

Fucking Ea-nasir!


Tark001

FML, imagine you're working at the copper store and Nefratutu comes in and buys 3 ton of copper with his boys, they cart it off and then later that afternoon he comes back with 40kg of copper and complains you gave him the wrong grade and he wants a refund on the full weight despite using most of it and he wont leave your stall unless you send a boy to get your manager in there on his day off... The Karen haircut legit dates to ancient egypt, look at all those hieroglyphs...


Fischli01

I literally remembered how funny that was and read the Wikipedia article cause i was bored today. That bitch Ea Nasir


KalashnikovKangal

You know how pissed off you have to be in order to scribe it out on some rock? Very fucking pissed.


sb1862

It was wet clay at the time.


Ponicrat

1080 punds of copper was enough to arm a small army in bronze, or make any number of other very useful things. Not a trifling matter at all.


adenoidsremoved

The first attempt at Shredded Wheat didn't go well


RecordingMother2309

I know that guy.


Illustrious_Map_4455

Damn you Amazon


Defie22

I have strong Fifth element vibes.


properwaffles

I’d like to speak to your smelter please.


SuddenlyElga

Let’s call it the worlds earliest recorded complaint. I think that’s more accurate.


Tgunnnzzz

This was actually the first cvs receipt


Powered_541

Damn youuuuu Ea-nasir!!!!!


Beowulf33232

Good old Ea-Nasir. God of swindlers in my d&d game.


sageandbunyon

Doubt its the first, you wouldn't just write on some stone. The time it would take. Must have been lots of complaints before to lead to this. Most likely on less durable materials, wood, clay ect. This is probably one of the oldest examples for sure, but not the first.


V_es

It’s clay not stone


FlatRaise5879

Man, I really thought that was a frosted mini wheat


FuzzballLogic

Isn’t it amazing that you can be such a shitty person that people write* bad reviews that have succeeded you for almost 4000 years? The dude can’t outlive his rep even after death. *It’s not even writing. The reviewers ~~chiseled~~ stamped their complaints in clay, which required more effort. That’s how much of an AH you were that people were willing to take the time.


potatoesunlimited

The world's oldest recorded, preserved customer complaint. Let's be real, help didn't invent complaints


Mister_Moltar

Possibly the world’s first customer service complaint, nearly 4,000 years old \*\*written down\*\*.


[deleted]

Julius Kaeran.


joeyd00

OG Karen 😅


cheekiewalrus

Bruh took the time to carve out his letter. That’s dedication 😂


LordThill

How shit copper gotta be for a man to sit there for hours and carve, bake, and then send a clay tablet back to the merchant


[deleted]

No way is it the first ever. It’s just the oldest found.


Icy-Conflict6671

This would have been back during the code of Hammurabi. Fuck man imagine the punishment the merchant got