Uhhh the Midwest will tempt you with puppy chow
Old-assyrian documents
Iltam sumra rashupti elatim!
The magazine selection in the Uruk dentist’s waiting room.
“How should we display these priceless ancient clay tablets?”
“Just throw them in that bowl over there.”
I think tablets like these are actually extremely common.
I know a guy I spoke to at the British Museum about cuneiform tablets said they literally just have hundreds and hundreds of them in storage and they are most very mundane record keeping.
You’re right. You can buy them on eBay for like $1000. Apparently ISIS does illegal excavations and sell the artifacts, and these are a common item.
It seems like they would rub together and get messed up
I don’t think anyone’s going around shaking the basket
goes around shaking the basket
>:o
Are these things tiny or is there just a weirdly large bowl for display to make them look like cereal for… reasons…?
Shredded Wheat lookin-ass receipts.
I love how most examples of ancient writing are not fiction or poetry, but inventories, invoices and business letters.
If you were scammed into buying that copper, you’d write an angry clay brick yourself.
Yes, but if you were the scammer, would you collect the clay bricks of everybody that complains?
If the complaint was funny enough I would.
Middle Kingdom Egypt has a number of examples of fiction. If you count the religious texts under fiction there is a lot.
Cuneiform tables are usually palm sized, so big biscuit sized.
Can you imagine going to an ancient Assyrian CVS? You’d need a second cart just to take the receipt home!
I would eat that if I would gain the power to sell inferior copper
Looks like triscuit
FR, or even like Life cereal a little bit.
