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the unfortunate reality of translating cuneiform (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They must have, otherwise that person wouldn't be so angry to have received the inferior stuff! They expected much better.

[โ€“] Skua@kbin.earth 8 points 1 month ago

Strictly speaking, and to take a joke way too seriously, the shitty copper actually wasn't even from Mesopotamia. Ea-Nasir was part of a guild that imported stuff from Dilmun, which was centred on modern day Bahrain. Ea-Nasir was basically running bronze age Temu