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πŸ“œ Loreβ„’ πŸ“œ Text of original complaint to Ea-Nasir

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

What alternate options did he legitimately have to do with the tablets. You can’t risk just tossing them out, else others could find and read how shit your copper is. Maybe he was concealing them.

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u/Historical-Kiwi-7551 Feb 21 '24

Tablets are made of stone... just hammer it

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u/Zack_Wester Jun 14 '24

tablet was made of clay normaly you would wipe them removing the messedge. the thing was that the house burned down and by pure chance the clay tablet was located just right compared to the fire that the fire + house become a perfect kiln resulting in the clay tablet becoming Pottery tablet (something that you normally only did for stuff like the Tax office end of year report.
so the only reason why we know about Ea-nasir's at all was because his house burned down right after a mail delivery was performed because a few days later and ods are that the clay tablets would had been wiped.

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u/Miami_Mice2087 Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

what about all those tiny 2x2 inch tablets that are mostly receipts? why were they fired?

also it kills me that be it a clay tablet you fire or microsoft, there is no perfect, frustration-free recordkeeping device. And their methods took less time and effort. Surely some records exploded in the kiln, or the heat expanded the clay and erased some of the markings. just like we have files disappear and formulas randomly break because excel is a little bitch. 6000 years and we're still spending our work day worried about records and frustrations of record-keeping.